Coyote Creek District February 2009 Santa Clara County Council

Coyote Creek Newsletter

Important Dates:

Feb 12th: District Roundtable Cub Scouts Reach Maximum Velocity! Feb 13th: Annual Council Photos courtesy of Sean Davis, Bear Cub Scout, Dinner David Coburn, Pinewood Derby Volunteer, & Cecil Lawson, District Chairman Feb 14th: Scout-O-Rama

Council Kickoff The Boy Scout’s annual Coyote Creek District Pinewood

Derby began with a spectacular rendition of the Star

Spangled Banner sung by Girl Scouts from Troops 61117 and

60973. A record number of 112 cars were registered and qualified on raceday, Saturday, February 7, 2009 at Mall. JOIN THE COYOTE San Jose Councilwoman Rose CREEK GROUP! Herrera welcomed the Cub Scouts and their families to the Become part of the action! Join the event and spoke of how the Coyote Creek District’s Yahoo group to receive announcements about Pinewood Derby has been a events, activities, and meetings. long tradition of scouting. The If the link above doesn’t work, send an Councilwoman joined in the e-mail to: reveling of the racing and coyote_creek_district- graciously helped award the [email protected]. winners their trophies. Please include your name, position, and unit. San Jose Councilwoman Entering a Pinewood Derby is Rose Herrera usually the highlight of a Cub At Roundtable this Scout’s year. Each scout gets a kit that is simply a block of month, Scout break-out pinewood and a set of plastic wheels, along with nails that serve as the axles. will be discussing how to The rules state the bring more adventure car must be no into your Scouting longer than 7 activities. inches, no wider than 2¾ inches, no taller than 3 inches, and no heavier than 5.0 ounces. With a Please send articles for the little imagination, next newsletter to: some sanding, a Girl Scouts (from left to right) Nicole Rogy, Allyson Pedro, Judy Davis touch of paint and Victoria Ta, Sydney Brewster, Sophie Watts, Esmee Fong- Chew, and Kaitlyn Wong sang the Star Spangled Banner [email protected] a few colorful Be sure to include basic storyline, names, dates and pictures if available.

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stickers, the cars competed by racing down Sponsors of this year’s Pinewood Derby one of the four separate computer-controlled included, San Jose Councilwoman Rose racetracks. Herrera, Eastridge Mall (GGP), Woodbridge, Inc., Plaza Dental Group, Albin Engineering, The Coyote Creek District of the Boy Scouts Evergreen Times (Times Media Inc.), Milpitas covers most of the south and east portions of Post, Starbucks, McDonalds, Sports Chalet, Santa Clara County. The Cub Scouts range Score! Educational Centers, and Evergreen from first through fifth grade class boys. Business & Professionals Association.

TIGERS (1st Graders) Champion Thomas Hertwig (Pack 113), 2nd WOLVES (2nd Graders) Champion Valmic Mukund (Pack 222), 2nd Place winner Connor Guzikowski (Pack 264), and 3rd Place Place winner Aaron Enriquez (Pack 149), and 3rd Place winner, Luke winner Thorson Cleveland (Pack 251) Do (Pack 222. not pictured)

BEARS (3rd Graders) Champion Michael Fragala (Pack 222), WEBELOS (4th & 5th Graders) Champion Nikhil Ravi (Pack 264), 2nd Place winner Nathan Phan (Pack 265), and 3rd Place 2nd Place winner Alec Coburn (Pack 222), and 3rd Place winner Tyler Zahirahis (Pack 296) winner Austin Enriquez (Pack 149)

Open Class Champion Kyle Carbonell, 2nd Akela Award winner Chris Golden (Pack 240), Place winner Jacob Dube, and 3rd Place winner Most Original winner Joshua Crews (Pack 296), Sydney Brewster (Troop 60973) and Best Design winner Kyle Hagopian (Pack 296)

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COME TO THE BEST SCOUTING EVENT OF THE YEAR! Saturday, May 9 @ 10am – 4pm at 1650 Senter Road, San Jose www.scccbsa.org/sor

The Scout-O-Rama is a fun event for family and friends that you don’t want to miss. Over 75 Scout units will host interactive, hands-on “booths” filled with fun! We expect 7,000 active participants from young children to the young at heart. Showcasing Cub World, Pioneering Planet, Scout Skills Safari, High Adventure Land, and Cooking Camp.

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Annual Council Dinner Spring 2009 High Adventure Clinic By: Rene Briones Annual Council Dinner Committee To be held on Jan 17-18, and overnight on Mar 7-8, the high adventure clinic offers training in outdoor To all Scoutmasters and Troop Leaders, leadership to Scout, Varsity, and Venturing BSA Adult Leaders, and Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Please encourage your Scouts who achieved the Adult Leaders, plus their key senior youth, through Eagle Rank in 2008 to attend the Annual Council instruction in proven techniques that promote Dinner to be held on Feb. 13, 6pm, at the Wyndham health and safety. The clinic is for all leaders of Hotel, 1350 N. First Street, San Jose, CA. They can both short- and long-term wilderness hiking and attend the dinner free. The Scouts are asked to camping (day treks, overnighters, 50-milers). Last make a presentation of their Eagle project, either in day to register is Jan 15. To get application go to: a poster board, Powerpoint presentation or other means. http://www.scccbsa.org/files/HATspring09Flyer-1.pdf

For more details, please go to the Council website (www.scccbsa.org), or call Rene Briones at 408-956- 1174. Evergreen Police Academy Part of Exploring Program By: Sally Dia Learning for Life and Exploring Executive Santa Clara County Council

The Evergreen Police Academy is part of our GoingEverGreen is a community-based initiative councils Exploring program. In addition to that raises awareness of the benefits of green and sponsoring Explorer Post 911, the Academy is alternative energy within the community. GoingEverGreen drives this awareness under the proud to announce an innovative youth belief that education is an essential component in program designed specifically to provide creating a viable, sustainable future. vocational paths towards public safety careers. The Youth Academy for Leadership The mission of GoingEverGreen is to: and Excellence (YALE) is designed to build o promote the resources and programs character, leadership and excellence in youth available to motivate and enable the ages 12 years and up and encourage adoption of energy conservation and use of responsible citizenship within the community. alternative energy YALE promotes cooperation and trust between enhance energy-efficiency and productivity o youth and public safety professionals while in all aspects of our life advancing continued education through the o work to bring clean, reliable and affordable energy technologies to the market-place. community college or vocational career education ladder. The unique partnership GoingEverGreen has developed a Directory of between local law enforcement and the Resources on its website www.goingevergreen.org community colleges creates viable public to help the community, particularly educators, safety career opportunities for youth and parents and students to explore a wide array of supports the development of strong leadership information, programs, financial support and and community awareness in young people. opportunities on alternative energy. YALE focuses on intensive and interactive

course work in the area of public safety. GoingEverGreen encourages the community to join in the mission of bringing energy conservation & Classes are designed to challenge youth efficiency and the use of alternative and through student centered learning methods to renewable technologies and products to the realize their full potential not only as individuals, forefront of discussion and consideration in our daily but as members of a community as well. lives. Please see attached flyer for more information on dates, times, curriculum, and fees!

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Happy Lunar New Year! Our Puppet Show By: Webelos Duc Giao, Pack 654 By: Michelle Phung, Brownie Girl Scout Girl Scout Troop 60703 Our Pack 654 celebrated the Our Girl Scout troop 60703 and our brother Cub Lunar New Year (“Tet” in Scout Pack 654 put together a wonderful puppet Vietnamese) on Jan 26 this show last month. The show was about the ant and year. It is the year of the the cricket. The cricket is so lazy. He played all year Buffalo. I learned that China, round. His friend, the ant, worked so hard to find Singapore, and Vietnam are and save food. The cricket had to come to the ant still using the Lunar Calendar. to beg for food when winter came. Japan and Korea also used it, but they have changed to the Gregorian calendar Our Troop Leaders wrote the script and directed the in the last few decades. show. The Cubmaster made the frame for the puppet theater. The parents in the group made the As part of the “Tet” celebration, our Pack had a curtain and the props for the four seasons of the fund raising event to help the orphans in Vietnam. year. My friends and I made and played the We sold rice cakes called “Banh Tet” (home made puppets: young birds, leader bird, wolf cubs, old by the Cub Scouts’ parents), and yellow mums wolf, butterflies, bees, flowers, and of course, the called “Hoa Cuc” to the families in ant and the cricket. Pack/Troop/Crew 654. We raised about $400 and got $100 matching from the Pack Committee. We donated a total $500, not much but with a lot of our love and caring, to VNHELP, a Vietnamese Charity in San Jose. VNHELP then immediately sent the donation to the Orphanage Dieu Giac in Saigon, Vietnam. The money, came just in time and was spent buying food and presents for the orphans to celebrate Tet.

We were all happy that the little thing we’ve

Webelos Duc Giao - Pack 654 with traditional Banh Tet (rice cakes) and Hoa We were very happy and excited about the show. Cuc (yellow mums) The audience really liked it when the birds, the done, indeed, brought smiles to the faces of many butterflies and the bees flew out, the wolf howled, orphans of our age. We appreciated all of the the flowers bloomed, the leaves dropped, the snow leaders, parents, and scouts in our group who came down, the cricket sang and the ants carried made Tet a successful and meaningful event for us. food to their nest. We enjoyed the show so very CHUC MUNG NAM MOI (Happy New Year) to all. much. The lesson we learned is to balance play and work.

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Support a Scout By: Cecil Lawson Eagles Corner

Because scouting supports All Scouts preparing for their the community Eagle rank should call Kay Lovell, Advancement Chair at Every December we kick-off our Friends of 408-263-6286. Any Scouts with Scouting (FOS) program to raise funds for approved Eagle projects should scouting by asking many of the adult leaders contact Mr. Lovell and provide to support a scout. Although there are other him with a status of their sources of funding, the majority of support progress. comes from those who directly benefits from the program. Because of the economic challenges and our desire to keep our Scouting programs strong and healthy for Need An Eagle Project? another 100 years, we are reaching out to the Message from Gina Ellis broader community for assistance. My name is Gina and I am a Park Ranger To do this we need to work with other parts of at Hellyer and . I our community to help keep kids in the have recently been put in charge of the scouting program who are otherwise unable to Eagle Scout projects. I have a project at afford the program. The Santa Clara County Santa Teresa Park which I am trying to find Council will sponsor a Community Breakfast April 8th. Our job is to invite as many table hosts a volunteer for. It would entail putting a and attendees as possible. We must be few stairs in at a trail entry. Recently we careful not to cannibalize the donations of have put in some splint rail fence existing contributors and focus on individual boarding a parking lot and this has forced and business that would otherwise not have trail users to use one single entry. This entry the opportunity to contribute to this worthy is getting rutted and I fear over time it will program. get worse. I feel like stairs need to go in to allow users a safer entry as well as These include business owners, colleagues, co- improve aesthetics. It may be a little tough workers, friends, neighbors and community but very rewarding project for a hard leaders that are not directly involved in the scouting program or don’t make a financial working scout. Please solicit my project to contribution. any eagle scout that may be looking for a project and have them e-mail me. Thank Here are the specifics for the event: you so much and even if I do not get any takers for this we are a contact for other Date: Wednesday April 8th, 2009 projects. This one just happens to be on Time: 7:30am – 9:00am top of the priority list. Location: Corinthian Center at San Jose

Athletic Club (Corner of James and 2nd) Gina L. Ellis Cost: No cost for breakfast Santa Clara County Park Ranger #P94

Hellyer Park, Santa Teresa Park, Guests will be asked make a donation of $275 [email protected] to support one scout for a year at the council. 985 Hellyer Ave. San Jose, CA 95111 Office: 408-225-0225 Fax: 408-225-7359 If you have contact information or names of www.parkhere.org people we can approach, please email the information to Ken Schott at [email protected] , or Cecil Lawson at [email protected].

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By: Wayne Cunningham, Pow Wow Cancellos

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District Chairman’s Corner By: Cecil Lawson Chairman Coyote Creek District Santa Clara Council Executive Board Member San Jose Council District 8 Roundtable Steering Committee (408) 839-0039

Toilet Paper and the Economy

My kids are eating the toilet paper. There is no way we can go through 36 rolls per month with two adults and three kids. No sooner that I put a new roll in the holder and then a few flushes later it’s gone – all 425 sheets of it. With the economy that way it is, I may need to cut back on a lot of things and should probably start with the toilet tissue. We use Kirkland brand, Embossed two-ply luxury bathroom tissue from Costco. It’s the stuff in a large bag that includes 36 individually wrapped rolls of paper. This paper has all the stuff I think we need including embossing for extra absorbency and a second layer of paper that prevents “accidents”. It wasn’t that long ago when one-ply was the norm and not that long before that when most people used just about anything to take care of the “paperwork” including corn husks and cobs - much older scouts remember this. Last Friday my wife asked me if I could bring a few rolls of two-ply to another bathroom after I finished up. I collected the rolls and placed this in the other bathroom. Frustrated with the amount of tissue we blow through each month, I went back to our finances and calculated how much tissue we flush down the toilet per year. I was surprised to learn it amount to over $500.00 per year. Surprisingly, that is on the less expensive side. Kirkland brand (Costco) is not considered the most luxurious brand available. If you are really rich you’re probably using Charmin Ultra Strong Mega Roll Bath Tissue. If you really want to know how your friends and neighbors are doing financially, ignore the outward signs of affluence such as multi-million dollar house and the expensive German luxury car. Focus on what is in the bathroom. If you find Charmin, they are probably flushing up to $1,000 a year down the toilet. What does this have to do with scouting anyway? We ask that you help the scouting program called Friends of Scouting or FOS, we only ask that you support your scout(s) in the program; more if you can afford it. If the economy is putting the squeeze on your pocket book, consider switching brands of toilet tissue or going back to one-ply. There are probably about 100 other ways to cut-back before you even consider changing your investment in scouting. Plain-old toilet paper is just one example.

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Important 2009 Events:

Feb 12, Mar 12, Apr 9, Coyote Creek RoundTable training at 7:30pm May 14, Jun 11, Jul 9, RoundTable (2nd Thursday of every month) Aug 13, Sep 10

2009 Council Annual Honoring the Eagle Scouts of 2008, The 2008 Silver Beaver Feb 13 Recognition Dinner Recipients

Bearpaw Winter Outdoor Session: Feb 20-22, 2009 Feb 20-22 Camping Experience Trek: April 17-19, 2009 http://www.scccbsa.org/html/program/training/bearpaw.html 60th Anniversary Kick Camp Hi-Sierra’s 60th Anniversary as a Boy Scout Feb 28 Off and Appreciation Resident Camp. It’s time to celebrate 60 years of Luncheon Scouting. From 10am-2pm. Spring training in outdoor leadership Overnight Mar 7-8 High Adventure Clinic http://www.scccbsa.org/files/HATspring09Flyer-1.pdf Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Dept and the Forest Conservation Northern California Society of American Foresters invite the Mar 28 – 29 Days Boy Scouts to hike with a forester during the 2009 Forest Conservation Days (FCD) at Sanborn Park. Call 408-867-9959. The Catholic Committee on Scouting and Camp Fire for Annual Catholic the Diocese of San Jose will hold it’s annual Recognition Mar 29 Recognition Ceremony at Basilica of St. Joseph with Monsignor Ceremony Francis Cilia, Vicar General, presiding. Contact Ann Resch at [email protected] or 408-227-8587. Apr 17-19 Camporee At Grant Ranch A fun event for family and friends featuring over 75 May 9 Scout-O-Rama scout units hosting interactive, hands-on “booths” filled with fun. From 10am-4pm. Camp Hi-Sierra celebrating its 60th Anniversary this Adopt A Campsite & summer. Help perform work to maintain and improve a May 23-25 Tribe of Hi-Sierra site by attending “Adopt A Campsite”. Contact Ken Weekend Schott at [email protected] Nov 7 District Dinner Coyote Creek District Dinner

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Every boy deserves a trained leader. View our training schedule and signup. The classes are fun and informative.

2009 Training Schedule:

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