1. “I had tons of fun this year at boy scouts, EC Speshely (sic) camping. I had lots of fun camping ecspshely on the natcher walk we saw a lot of deer, we had fun at arcary, bibbi guns and sling shots to. The End”

2. “We won the spirit stick in a screaming contest. My den won. then the den master lost it. I acedently brought it home.”

3. “We won the spirit stick. We also had realy fun time with rain gutter regotta (racing boats). We race boats, cars, and rockets. And every year we have a police man come in and finger print. We also go camping witch includes fishing. Evry time we go we make a really cool thing.”

4. “What we did is went water codversation progect (Well only me and _____. We did all this cool stuff. I got my foot in the water and skipped a rock and other stuff. The pinnacle of it was going to Woman hollaren creek and jump in the middle of the river.”

5. “We won the spirit stick by yelling. We made Christmas ornaments. A policeman came to finger print. We got a toar of the EMS and the fire station. Do you want to come and join in?”

6. “We did a water conservation. It was fun, We saw a turtle. I got mud on my shoes. Me and ______ jumped rock to rock. We went to woman hollering creek. PS. I know why the woman would hollar.”

7. “We went to the fire station and the EMS.”

So they left out a couple of events: setting up “ghost bowling” at the pack’s Fall Festival, Christmas caroling at a senior center, made bat roosts and bird baths, caught some catfish at the Cub ‘N One, watched the OA indian dancers at the campfire, learned about cowboys, made rope, held a bicycle rodeo, decorated paper mache planets for our annual banquet, earned our “Whitlin’ Chip” cards, spent some great family time, built Pinewood derby cars (What den had four of the five fastest cars in the pack? Ours!), regatta boats….

Guess you heard about the spirit stick, huh? Yeah, they’re kind of excited about that one!

Dave Brown, Den Leader, Bear 5