- By Mike Brown
- Around Town
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More than eighty Cub Scouts and dozens of adult leaders and parents spent the weekend of October 6th-7th in "Ancient Egypt" at the Baden-Powell Council's fall Cub Family Weekend. The Cubs gathered at Camp Barton in Trumansburg on Saturday, and spent the day marking hieroglyphics onto t-shirts, building pyramids and making bricks and papyrus, shooting arrows at the archery range, having their picture taken in Egyptian costume, and generally having fun in the perfect weather on the shore of Cayuga Lake. The day ended with a campfire program, and the Cubs and parents retired to their tents for a well-earned rest. 
Cub Scouts pound Japanese Knotweed stalks to make papyrus
Cub Scouting is a program for first to fifth grade boys. Cub Scouting members join a Cub Scout pack and are assigned to a den, usually a neighborhood group of six to eight boys. Tiger Cubs (first-graders), Wolf Cub Scouts (second-graders), Bear Cub Scouts (third-graders), and Webelos Scouts (fourth- and fifth-graders) meet weekly. Once a month, all of the dens and family members gather for a pack meeting under the direction of a Cubmaster and pack committee. The committee includes parents of boys in the pack and members of the chartered organization.
