Cub Scout Pack 564 - Lilburn, GA
Preparing young boys and girls to become responsible, participating citizens, and leaders.
Thanks, Pack 564 family, for supporting the 2016 Harvest for the Hungry food drive. This wouldn’t be possible without you!
And thanks to Lilburn for being so generous! Your donations of food will go to a good cause, the Lilburn Cooperative Ministry!
See you next year!
Please reserve time the next two Saturdays to participate in the Harvest for the Hungry food drive, Pack 564’s annual service project in conjunction with Troop 549, Pack 549, Mountain Park United Methodist Church and the Lilburn Cooperative Ministry to help feed our neighbors in need.
Den leaders have been asked to choose neighborhoods in which to distribute empty grocery bags on Saturday, Nov. 7, along with a note asking for donations of non-perishable groceries to go to the Lilburn Co-op.
Dens will return to those same neighborhoods on Saturday, Nov. 14 after 10 a.m. to pick up filled bags and deliver them to the Lilburn Co-Op, 5329 Five Forks Trickum Rd SW, Lilburn, GA 30047.
New this year, we will also be staffing booths at the Kroger at Five Forks and Rockbridge accepting drop-offs there. If you are unable to help your den distribute bags because of scheduling conflicts, this is a great way to be of service. We’ll be accepting donations from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, Nov. 8 and from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 14. You can sign up for a shift now at Signup Genius.
This is an important project that helps feed our neighbors in need. According to Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic-hunger relief agency, more than 106,000 Gwinnett County residents go without consistent access to food at least part of the year.
Additionally, it may help fulfill advancement requirements for some ranks.
Due to a scheduling conflict, we’ll be meeting in the Camp Creek Elementary School cafeteria instead of at Mountain Park United Methodist Church. The meeting time remains 7 p.m.
This meeting will be your last opportunity to sign up for fall family camping, so make sure to reserve a campsite for your family at the registration table at the pack of the meeting room! If you haven’t paid your fees for camping, please remember to bring a check payable to BSA Pack 564!
The pack is planning a variety of activities, including opportunities to earn belt loops and a pack dinner and campfire. Volunteers are needed to run belt loop sessions. Please contact Cubmaster Lance Wallace if you’d like to help.
You’ll also be able to sign up to attend the Pack Night at the Gwinnett Gladiators on Jan. 10.
And den leaders will be choosing a neighborhood to distribute Harvest for the Hungry food collection bags on Nov. 1, with pickup one week later.
Finally, don’t forget to bring your popcorn forms and money! We’ll be tallying up sales since the last pack meeting and raffling off more prizes.
It’s easy to get lulled into a sense that everything is okay. After all, your kids go to bed every night in a warm home, in clean clothes, with full bellies.
But in households not very far from your own, that’s not at always the case.
In fact, according to the non-profit advocacy group Feeding America, 112,000 Gwinnett County residents — half of them children — spend at least part of the year unsure where their next meal will come from. And winter is often a time of increased need.
What’s the good news here? That you and your scout can help, of course.
Pack 564’s primary annual service project, Harvest for the Hungry, is rapidly approaching.
At the October pack meeting, your den leader will choose a neighborhood for your scouts to canvass, and on Nov. 1, boys from our pack, Pack 549 out of Mountain Park Elementary School and Boy Scout Troop 549 will fan out to distribute bags all over Lilburn.
Our pack is responsible for all neighborhoods north of Five Forks Trickum Road.
The pack has been doing this since 2006, according to Bradley O. Anderson, our pack’s chartered organization representative.
This is an important service project, a core element of scouting, and an opportunity for you to talk with your son about the importance of service, charity and goodwill. And the boys have fun, too.
So please make every effort to turn out on the morning of Nov. 1 and again a week later to help your boys unleash their inner heroes and help our neighbors in need.
If you have any questions, please ask your den leader or Julie Alcorn, the pack coordinator for this event.