Cub Scouts invited to join in outdoor activities
By Brandon Davis
Published in News on July 19, 2016 1:46 PM
The Tuscarora Council of the Boy Scouts of America will host the Torhunta Cub Scout Day Camp's Cublympics Thursday through Saturday from 8:30 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. at Old Waynesborough Park.
Admission is $45 per Scout for all three days. Scouts in grades 1-5 can participate.
Cub Scouts will receive lunch each day and the council will provide T-shirts for the Scouts.
Sarah Fernandez, the district executive of the Wayne County Scouting Community and Susan Lewis, the director of the Torhunta District Cub Scout Day Camp, invite Scouts to join in archery, fishing and even Bristle Bot adventures outdoors.
"I think it is very important for the kids to get outside and be active and not be cooped up inside," Mrs. Fernandez said. "And I have found that there are so many kids out there who aren't exposed to the outdoors."
Mrs. Fernandez said 59 Cub Scouts have signed up for the event, along with 71 parents or guardians. She said there will also be 41 siblings, 18 Boy Scout volunteers and 15 instructors.
Boy Scout volunteers will carry the torch for the opening ceremonies on Thursday at 9 a.m. The torch will not hold a real flame like the 2016 Summer Olympics torch, but the spray-painted flame symbolizes the beginning of a three-day adventure -- Olympic style.
Cub Scouts will receive torch badges on Thursday and will begin hiking, craft making and outdoor surviving. Mrs. Lewis said they will participate in leather working and Bristle Bot, which involves the head of a toothbrush powered by a cell phone vibrating mechanism and a cell phone battery for racing.
She said the older Scouts will learn how to put up a tent on Friday. She said they will also hike a 3-mile Webelos walkabout after they prepare their own lunch in cast iron skillets.
Archery and fishing will take place on Saturday during Family Day. Scouts will be awarded medals they created during the three days.
Mrs. Lewis said each adventure is to prepare the Cub Scouts for when they become Boy Scouts.
"We teach values based on the Boy Scout Law, which now is also the Cub Scout Law," Mrs. Lewis said. "I think every parent would want their child to be trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent. Those are the values we teach."
For more information about the Cublympics, contact the Tuscarora Council at 919-734-1714.