Feb through June

All candy money due to me between 6 and 8pm on Monday Feb 14th Happy Valentines Day!!

Monday Feb 28th meet at the council for an art workshop 4-5pm, cost is 5 dollars, no vests please, we will be painting.

++++++Saturday March 5th is a wetlands restoration (i will be at the May 7th event) but you can attend this one if you cannot attend May 7th meet at the parking lot near zeidler marsh, take a left at 2nd street/westminster where studebaker dead ends, on the right is a parking lot with signs to direct you in to park. start time is 10:30am, wear a camp fire t-shirt so they know you are a camp fire kid, no vests, shoes that can get dirty, sunscreen and hat, bring gloves if you have them. parents must attend, no drop offs+++++

Wed March 9th meeting at the church 6:15pm, we will be silkscreening t-shirts. bring a canvas bag if you want to make a new one for your camp fire supplies. bring a white t-shirt for a rocket cat design and a blue t shirt (we will be using white paint so not too light of blue, royal or dark works best) for our new wetlands design. you are welcome to bring extra t-shirts to screen as well.

Sunday Mar 13th Meet and Greet at grace first church. choose either 8:45am (shake hands and say hello at the entrance to the fellowship hall, about 30 minutes then leave), or 10:00am to help serve refreshments and then walk over at 10:45 to shake hands before the 11am service. leave at 11:15am. dressed in uniform and "church" attire. we need a strong showing for this event to say thank you to the church for letting us use their room for our meetings. please try and attend.

Friday March 11th is the Ice Cream social at the Armory 6:30-8:30pm. All supplies and ice-cream will be provided. if you attend this event, you will fulfill 3 out of 4 items on the "Camp Fire Birthday patch" list (i will hand out the requirements at the next meeting), if you wear your vest to school one day in the month of march you will have completed the requirements for this patch. There is a trivia game scheduled during the event and parents must be sitting with their kids and helping with the question/answer portion when the game is announced. We need to make sure our kids are not running wild during the event, parents must keep an eye on their own kids. Siblings are welcome to attend but cannot run freely unattended. the older kids are not good at keeping the kids under control so the leaders have been asked to tell parents to please help out more.

Thursday March 17th "Sproutin'" spring event at the council 4 to 5pm, $5 charge per kid, drop off ok.

Thursday March 24th Flag Salute at the Cerritos City Hall 6:45 to 7:15, please be on time and in uniform. location details will be posted on the blog and emailed out when available.

Friday April 8th "Bunny" event at the council 4-5pm, $5 charge per kid, drop off ok

Saturday April 16th All council work party at camp shiwaka. 8:30 to 1:30pm, wear your grubby clothes, bring gloves if you have them. free barbecue lunch will be provided.

Wednesday April 20th meeting at the church 6:15pm

Satuday May 7th Los Cerritos Wetlands restoration event 10:30 to 12:30. meet at trader joes parking lot on 2nd street, between pch and studebaker road. wear your new camp fire wetlands t-shirts and closed toe shoes, sunscreen and hats suggested, bring gloves if you have them. this is a mandatory event, if you cannot attend, please let me know so i can give you an alternative event to attend.

Wednesday May 11th meeting at the church 6:15

Friday May 13th Spring Camp out at camp shiwaka. families can set up a tent, siblings welcome, we will coordinate dinner with the loving bears and flying falcon groups, potluck style.
pancake breakfast is Saturday morning after the sleepover (May 14)

Friday May 20th Winging ceremony (details coming soon)

Wednesday May 25th meeting at the church 6:15

Wednesday June 8th last meeting of the year

Camp Shiwaka will be August 8 through 12th. i need 2 parents a day and at least one parent who will volunteer to do the entire week. 3 parents a day, even better. you can come just one day, even just at meal times helps a lot. we need a parent to bring a full ice-chest of ice each day for our drinking water. a parent shopper is needed to buy the food for the week and bring an ice chest with the days supplies each day. if you have a large igloo water container for our water, let us know if we can borrow it.

there will be a parent meeting in august to go over all the details for camp and talk about the upcoming year.

candy sales 2011

we are winding down the candy sales, it's been a long 4 weeks... hang in there if you still have candy to sell this weekend, you can do it!!