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Who we are
Who we are
Cub Scouts Pack 73 has been part of Springfield for over 50 years. We're a family pack: boys and girls in kindergarten through 5th grade, and a whole lot of parents who are figuring it out alongside their kids. You can join at any point in the year, and no one expects you to arrive knowing anything about scouting.
Scouting is a family program
Scouting is a family program
This is the part most people don't expect.
Cub Scouts isn't a drop-off activity. You come with your child — to the meetings, on the hikes, out to the campsite. You build the Pinewood Derby car together at your kitchen table. That's not an extra burden bolted onto the program; it is the program, and it's the reason families stick with it.
Most of what fills a kid's week separates you from them for an hour. This gives that hour back, and gives you something to do in it. Parents tell us it's the thing they didn't know they were signing up for and the thing they'd miss most.
What a year with Pack 73 looks like
What a year with Pack 73 looks like
Dens meet once or twice a month from September through June. The whole pack gathers once a month for something bigger. Roughly, the year goes:
Fall — Family camping: either a themed weekend at a Scout camp with packs from nearby towns, or a pack-run camping trip. In either case, come for the day or stay a night or two. New to camping? Don't worry--we've got you covered!
Winter — the Pinewood Derby, where scouts and a parent carve, paint, and race their own cars on our track. Then the Blue & Gold Banquet in February: dinner, awards, and a send-off for the 5th graders crossing over to a Scouts BSA troop.
Spring — a second camping trip, the Memorial Day parade, fishing, and service projects.
All year — hikes, campfires, conservation work, community cleanups, cooking for a local shelter, the animal shelter, planting in the community gardens, popcorn at the town fair, and holiday lights at Turtle Back Zoo.
Individual dens plan plenty of their own adventures on top of that.
What we stand for
What we stand for
Every meeting comes back to the same two things — the Scout Oath and the Scout Law. In practice, for a 7-year-old, that means: tell the truth, finish what you start, look after the people around you, and leave a place better than you found it.
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Read more about the Oath and Law
Who runs the pack
Who runs the pack
Parent volunteers — all of us. Unlike a Scouts BSA troop, which the scouts run themselves, a Cub Scout pack is led by the grown-ups, and several of ours are Eagle Scouts who grew up in the program. Meet our leaders
Every registered adult leader completes Scouting America's Youth Protection training and a background check. Two registered adults are present at every activity, and no adult is ever one-on-one with a scout.
Pack 73 is chartered by St. James the Apostle Church and is part of the Pioneer District of Patriots' Path Council, Scouting America.
Come see for yourself
Come see for yourself
The best way to know whether this is right for your family is to show up once. Email pack73nj@gmail.com and we'll tell you which meeting to drop into — no registration, no commitment.
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