Fire, Fire

No not really, we were visited this week by the Cedar Creek Rural Fire Service. The cubs were given a presentation on bushfires and safety.

The videos were great and showed how rapidly a fire can catch on.

Each cub was presented with a bushfire safety pack and it included a couple of models.

The best bit was to come. At the end, each cub were given a chance to use the fire hose on the truck the fire fighters brought up. I was waiting for the smaller cubs to be lifted.off the ground, but the fire fighters were holding tight.

Now if it wasn't wet enough already with the rain on Tuesday, after 20+ cubs hosing the parade ground it was like January rain.

It was a great experience and one we will do again.

Thanks to Peter Davidson(aka Redback) for organising this on short notice. Our planned outing to Beenleigh fire station was put on hold.

Welcome aboard - week 2

This week we invested Elliott and Jasper into our section. These two boys are cousins and were planned to be invested last week, but Elliott was away.

To Elliott and Jasper we welcome you aboard the Beenleigh Cub Pack.

Well done to Dingo for doing the duty of investing the new members.

Another Bronze Boomerang

Last week I posted all the recipients who earned and were awarded their Boomerang Badges. I have inexpliciable left one off - Connor, our quiet achiever, who was awarded his Bronze Boomerang also on that night.

Bagheera has spent time in the sin bin for forgetting him off the list last week.

Cuboree fundraising

We have had a very generous donation from a busines to help boost our Cuboree funds to $750. That is 2 cubs going.

Now to hit that $1,000 mark.

Keep the coins coming as next Tuesday we will have a reward for the person who brings in the most over a month.

Grey Wolf Hike

Well done to Ashley R for completing a Grey Wolf Hike that saw her deliver pamphlets for our Car Boot Sale. Thanks to the cubs that went with her and to Rikki for prodding them along ;-)

Ashley is now only one level 2 badge from earningnthe Grey Wolf, her game resource was great and she also reived her 3rd level 2 on Tuesday.

Science night

Well what a terrific night the cubs had this week. Thanks to Rama, we held a science night , where the cubs got to make an electeic magnet with a screw, wires and battery. The cubs were able to demonstrate it working by picking up washers.

The second experiment was to build a potato clock. This invovles using 2 potatos as the batteries, that are lined with wires to a digital clock. The idea is to shiw hiw a chemical reaction between zinc nails and the acids contained in the potatos can generate electricity.

They all worked after some adjustment.

Well done Rama this was a great night.

Boomerang Awards

Well done to the following cubs who have acheived their boomerang awards this week.

Brayden - Bronze
Harrison D - Bronze
Harrison S - Silver
Alexandra - Silver
Danielle - Gold

Well done everyone. The silvers are now a step closer to getting to Cuboree in 2012.