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The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Program is designed for the citizen reponder. The CERT course prepares and teaches community members to become better prepared for emergencies, how to organize people and resources before, during and after a major disaster. This program is Ideal for scouts and their families. The training that the scout will receive can be used to sastify the requirements for the Emergency Preparedness and First Aid Merit Badges (Both Eagle Required). The Emergency Preparedness Award can also be earned with this training.

Check out these fun pics of our Scouts! We had a fantastic turn out of 36 scouts for our second Pack event. A special thanks to the parents for enabling this event and for those who helped manage their Den. I saw Michael Quick looking like a Den Leader in his new uniform, up to his waist in Tiger Cubs!

If any Scout did not get a "bowling" belt loop, please let Jock Marlo know.

Thank you for a very enthusiastic turn out for our first pack event - the El Moro Hike! We had 22 intrepid scouts with siblings and the weather was perfect!
What we did:

* Met as a pack, discussed our route, safety, and staying together;
* A long the way we stopped for discussions on prickly pear cactus, using way points for navigation, and how to find north by tracking the sun;
* At the end we finished up with handing out patches and enjoying home made cookies - a special thank you to Mrs.

This event took place in two phases. Phase 1- build the cars. Phase 2 - Race the cars. As with most scouting events it's as much about the process as the result - family, friendship, values, and scouting. Every Scout who participated is a winner!

We had a wide variety of cars. I thought the pencil and crayon car were the most unique. Our track is unique too. Built in 1968 and handed down through generations of Scouts. And yes at 40, our track has a few "barnacles of life." I thought some of those barnacles made for some pretty intense heats!

Scouting for Food is an annual council wide community service project where scouts collect donations of food for the Second Harvest Food Bank. In some years over 20 tons of food was collected filling 2 tractor trailer trucks.

The intrepid scouts and leaders of Pack 373 in Costa Mesa spent a day clearing invasive plant species and trash from the sand dues area of Talbert Park in Costa Mesa. Talbert Park lines the Costa Mesa side of the Santa Ana river north and south of Victoria St and is behind and below Fairview Park. It is a quiet park only accessible by foot or bicycle.

2008 Rancho Del Mar Camporee at Camp Firestone

2008 Year in Review photos submitted by scouters

Rancho Del Mar Roundtable - participation neckerchiefs being decoracted.

What an amazing Round Table we Had ! ! ! Our fun event this month dealt with pre-seasonal singing .