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Only two weeks left to register using the Early Bird special prices for the Scouting Holiday Auction.  On November, the price increases from $20 to $25 Register now and save.

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Powder Horn 2012 will be held at Hi-Sierra. What is Powder Horn?  It's for adult leaders and youth 16+ that want to get hand-on experiences with a variety of high adventure activities. The Powder Horn features 1 to 2-hour sessions with experts in a variety of high adventure activities and topics. You not only learn about the high adventure activity and try it, but you learn about safety and meet other great people!!!!

The training team is holding all four leader specific training on Dec. 3rd at the San Felipe LDS facility.  We're hoping that this will be the biggest basic training event inthe history of the council!!!! Please spread the word to any cub, boy scout, varsity or venturing leader that need to be trained for their position!!

Online reigistration is up!!

I am planning to teaching a monthly CPR class for Scouts & scouters in 2012 Please watch the training section of the website for details and sign ups space will be limited.  I will also offer at least two Wilderness First Aid classes and likely a third in the Fall of 2012

Be safe

Santa Clara Cub Scouts from Pack 32 and Pack 43 participate in

Memorial Day Remembrance

Scouts place flags at graves of Santa Clara's veterans

Santa Clara, CA, May 28, 2011 – As part of local remembrance events for Memorial Day, Cub…

Santa Clara, CA, May 22, 2011 - The annual National River Cleanup Day was held on Saturday May 21st and was organized by the Creek Connections Action Group to help clean up Santa Clara County's waterways. Santa Clara’s Cub Scout Pack 32 and Daisy Troop 60650 helped collecting 350 lbs of trash and 10 pounds of recyclables along both sides of a 1.25…

Attended Scout-O-Rama this year with a cub scout.

Very nice event!

On April 30, 2011 Members of Pack 32 performed the opening flag ceremony for a community event being held at the Harris Lass House Museum.  Part of the festivities included a brand new flag be dedicated to all of the museum volunteers being raised over the museum for the first time.  Everyone was quite impressed…

The new Journey to Excellence achievement program includes a metric to record service hours conducted within your Scouting unit.  This includes any unit service project by a den/patrol as well as individual service projects (Eagle Scout projects). 

Go to:  http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/Commissioners/Journey.aspx

You will need your unit identification number for this program and…

On February 28th 2011, Cub Scout Pack 32 of Santa Clara held its annual Blue and Gold Banquet and celebrated the Pack's 60th Birthday.  It was a celebration that nobody expected.

Like many older Packs, time, constant changes in guardianship, changes in computer storage, and poor judgement, led to poor historical record keeping.  When I took over as Cubmaster in January of 2010 little of the Pack's history prior to 2007 was know  to anyone still involved.…

Troop 498 in Sunnyvale just posted their website to the council's link of unit websites:

http://www.scccbsa.org/html/resources/units-troops.html

Similar listing for packs and crews. They've done a nice job on their website!

http://www.sccct498.org/home

Over 200 Cubs and their families journeyed up the short drive to Camp Chesebrough, just over the crest off Hwy 9 above Saratoga, for a Saturday of fun. Pictures soon to be arriving here but there's a few on my Facebook account:…

Jason Strawbridge didn't want to follow the flock in making his Eagle Scout project. Another toolshed or bench was not what he wanted to build--he was looking for a challenge.

Lucky for him, then, that three rehabilitated barn owls needed somewhere to sleep. Jason built three owl boxes from scratch, installed them at Full Circle Farm in Sunnyvale, then watched during the evening of Aug. 26 as the three owls were released at the farm by volunteers from the Wildlife…

With this year’s re-chartering, a new requirement has been added that all of your registered adults must have completed Youth Protection Training within the last two years. This requirement includes your Chartered Organization Representative. Start collecting certificates now to avoid delays during…