Scouts in Action

Scouting for Food – 2021 Scouting for Food in 2021 reminded us that even in dire times of need, we are able to follow safety protocols and provide service to our community. In Fall 2020, we shifted our focus to a virtual food drive and crowd funded $22,000 for our local food banks. Our community…

Pack 225’s Amazing 2021 Toys for Tots Collection Drive Pack 225 was able to do their usual Marines Toys for Tots toy drive this year at Glorietta Elementary School in Orinda.  Principal Lewis announced the toy drive in her weekly message, and Cubs and leaders were at the school during the morning carpools on Dec.…

Cub Scouts from GGAC Pack 88 Visit SF Coast Guard Air Rescue Base Over 40 Cubs Scouts with their families visited the US Coast Guard Air Base near the SFO airport on 12/5/21. The members of Pack 88, based in SF’s Noe Valley neighborhood were awed by the tour, visit, and the chance to see…

Apara is a member of Troop 36G, Meridian District, Golden Gate Area Council, BSA Her Eagle project for Project Pride’s Rehabilitation Center transformed the backyard of their facility in Oakland creating two areas – a ‘Children’s Area’ and a ‘Women’s Area’. In the Children’s Area, volunteers assembled and built a playground, placed rubber tiles, painted…

Sea Scout Ship Corsair named inaugural GGAC Flagship Flagship, “the finest, largest, or most important one of a group” is an honorific sought after by Sea Scout Ships nationwide.   The National Flagship and National Flagship fleet honors are awarded each year by the National Sea Scout Committee. SSS Albatross Ship 72 of Martinez, SSS…

On March 10, Pack 1015 celebrated this year’s Blue and Gold Ceremony a little bit differently from years past.  We wanted to come up with a plan to do something together as a pack safely, since so many events of the last year have been held on Zoom.   To do this, we partnered with…

Nine Arrow of Light Scouts from Cub Scout Pack 1776 earned the Dr. Charles H. Townes Supernova Award this February 2021.  The Dr. Charles Townes Supernova Award is Cub Scouting’s  highest STEM Award and can be earned by Webelos/ Arrow of Light scouts.  Pack 1776 serves boys and girls attending the Coyote Creek and Bella…

On January 9th, Alameda Boy Scout Troop 11 launched its 49th annual Christmas Tree Pick Up and Recycling program.  The service project has become a holiday tradition for Alameda. The first Christmas Tree Pick Up event started as an Eagle Scout project by Harold Zecher, Jr. in 1972, well before the county offered recycling programs.…

With our traditional group service projects currently on hold, Pack 800 invited each Pack family to clean up the area around them as part of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of service. Although we did not work together as a large group, we were able to make several positive impacts throughout the community. For example,…