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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 Eastridge 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. 1 | Page Coyote Creek District February 2009 Santa Clara County Council 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 rd rd Place winner Connor Guzikowski (Pack 264), and 3 Place Place winner Aaron Enriquez (Pack 149), and 3 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) 2 | Page Coyote Creek District February 2009 Santa Clara County Council COME TO THE BEST SCOUTING EVENT OF THE YEAR! Saturday, May 9 @ 10am – 4pm History Park at Kelley Park 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. 3 | Page Coyote Creek District February 2009 Santa Clara County Council 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! 4 | Page Coyote Creek District February 2009 Santa Clara County Council 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.