2015 Chesapeake District Pinewood Derby

Sunday, June 7, 2015

Location:

Registration and Cost

The 2015 Chesapeake District Pinewood Derby will be open to ALL RACERS!!!! All Cub Scouts wanting to race are welcome. Please register as soon as possible for this event. We suggest registering Scouts as soon as your Pack Pinewood Derby is completed!!!

Register Early!

Race Registrations will be done online at: Chesapeake District Pinewood Derby Registrtaion. The registration cost is $6.00 for each Cub Scout entered. Payment on-line will be accepted and encouraged.  However, payment can be made at check-in time.

The Pack's "Race Day Cubmaster" may make substitutions for absent registered participants at no cost but the substitute must race their own car.

The on-line registrations will be accepted until March 19, 2015

3rd Annual Cub Scout Aviation Day at Glenn L Martin Museum

Martin State Airport

701 Wilson Point Rd # 5-501, Baltimore, MD 

May 30, 2015  10-3PM (Check-In at 9am)

No Onsite Registration!

 $20 Per Scout, $7 Per Adult

*A Box Lunch is available for an Additional $8 ( drink not provided)

boxed meal consists of a sandwich, a cookie, and a bag of chips.

Sandwich options: Veggie Delite®, Black Forest Ham or Cold Cut Combo

all subs come with lettuce and tomatoes (side of mayo and mustard)

Must Pre-Register online at : Cub Scout Day at Glenn L Martin Maryland Aviation Day

The 4th Bengies Drive-in Camp-in

September 12, 2015

Tickets $5,00 per person plus Admission to Movie ($10.00 per person last year)

$10.00 Food Permit per car.  NO Outside food withouy food permit!!!  (Bengies' Rules)

Tickets will Open to Public Sale on May 1. 

CHESAPEAKE THIS IS YOUR CHANCE to get your tickets this year... no pay at door.

Tickets available at:4th Annual Bengies Drive-in Camp-in

The Chesapeake District Annual Business Meeting will be held on Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at 8:00pm. The location is: Zion United Church of Christ, 7140 Golden Ring Road, Essex, MD 21221.

At this meeting, the slate of district officers and members-at-large put into nomination by the district nominating committee will be elected. If you would like to be considered for a District Committee job or to be nominated as a District member-at-large, or wish to nominate someone else (with their permission), please contact Patrick Swink, Chesapeake District Nominating Committee Chairman, by April 1, 2015. He can be reached via e-mail at pnswink@msn.com or by phone: 410-458-1460. Voting members of the District include current officers, members-at-large, and Council members-at-large who reside in the District and Chartered Organization Representatives of Chesapeake District units. This notice is posted in the Area Scouter, in addition to a mailed notice to all voting members and posting on the District webpage.

It is that time of year that we need to start working on Friends of Scouting.

All Units should verify their 2015 Friends of Scouting presentation date with Ron Tydings (410-608-4860 // email:Ronald.tydings@verizon.net) at least 1 week before the scheduled date to make sure your presenter is locked in.  It would be helpful, if you could give an estimate of adult attendees, as well.

Please consider nominating some of your fellow Chesapeake District Scouters for one of the following awards:

1.) District Award of Merit (2 awards can be given in 2015)

2.) District Spark Plug Award (Nominations are submitted and reviewed

3.) Unit "Unsung Hero" Award (Each unit can submit/award per unit
example one per each pack, one per each troop, one per each crew)

Electronic copies of the nomination forms can be found on the Chesapeake District webpage, which you can find at the links below. You can also pick up nomination forms at any District Roundtable. The awards will be presented at the District's Annual Recognition Picnic, which will be held in June 8th 2015 and at Zion United Church of Christ.

All nominations are due to Rich Gambrill or Rick Brewster by Wednesday, April 22, 2015. Please forward your nomination forms to Rick Brewster by email at rbrewster86@comcast.net or by mail to the address listed below.

You may drop off your nomination forms at any of the District's Roundtable meetings, but please hand the nomination forms over to Rick Brewster or Rich Gambrill.

The Chesapeake District has converted all of the Merit Badge Counselors over to the website for easy access for all the units and to allow the list to be kept up to date. 

We will be contacting unit for logins and passwords for those that will need them. 

Please remember that this contains information the should not be public and the login and password are not to be distributed throughout a unit.  Please treat this information as you would your own.

This list can also be printed out from the website:

Please remember for Chesapeake District to work we need your help!!! 

Please take this survey or send it to someone you may think is intrested.

Chesapeake District Help Survey

This is your District and we need your help to make things work.

Many of the decisions made at District level do effect your unit such as membership, fundraising, activities, programs.  

There are many jobs that we need help with from all areas:

Committee Members, Commissioners, Advancement, Training, Activities and Program, Membership, and Finance. 

We also need help at different functions. 

Please contact: Rich Gambrill 410-913-3828, Art Betz 443-554-6315 or Jim Barton 443-573-2530