Meets 7:00 PM Thursdays
Shepherdsville Community Center

As our final pack activity for the summer of 2008, Pack 868 went tent camping and attended the annual Scout Celebration at Barren River Lake.  This annual event is sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and is attended by dozens of Boy and Girl Scout units.  The scouts get to enjoy a weekend of tent camping and a host of planned activities at the Tailwater Campground near Barren River Lake dam.

This year's show featured a mobile rock climbing wall brought in by the Army National Guard, field sports, competitive games, archery, and Scouting-related exhibits.  Scouts were able to go canoeing and/or fishing at nearby Port Oliver or swim at The Quarry recreation area.  Free shuttle service via bus was provided between the campground and the off-site program areas.  A Saturday night campfire program featured skits by various units, including one performed by Pack 868 Cub Scouts.  The weekend concluded after an in-camp Sunday morning worship service.

Ribbons and other prizes were awarded at the campfire for such things as Best Campsite, Best Gateway, and Best Dutch Oven Cooking.  But the most coveted of the various recognitions is the "Jigger."  Jigger was the nickname of a now deceased gentlemen who was a Scouting icon in the area around Glasgow for many, many years.  He was well known for his generosity and service to others, and his devotion to Scouting.  The award named in his honor is presented annually to the unit at the Scout Celebration that best demonstrates "Scout Spirit" throughout the weekend.  The Cubs of Pack 868 were particularly excited when the 2008 Jigger Award was presented to the Boy Scouts of Troop 868.  In fact, some of the Cubs got so excited they went forward to the stage to accept the award along with the Boy Scouts!

That was OK, because the Boy Scouts of Troop 868 look upon the Cubs of Pack 868 as future troop members.  The Jigger Award is a large brass bell that the winning unit rings as they march around the campground --- as often and for as long as they care to march.  At the closing flag ceremony on Sunday morning, the bell is exchanged for a handsome wooden plaque that the winning unit can take home and display on the wall of their meeting room.  (The plaque is now hanging on a wall in the Shepherdsville Community Center.)  The bell is "non-traveling."  It is kept at the Corps of Engineers office along with a larger plaque that lists all the Jigger winning units.

The Pack 868 campsite at the 2008 Barren River Lake Scout Celebration..		Troop 868 Scouts led by Senior Patrol Leader Tim march around ringing the "Jigger" bell.
On Saturday afternoon, Pack 868 Cub Scouts hiked a nature trail through the woods.		Dawson, Caden, and Jesse stopped to check out a log bench along the trail.
The group then went swimming.  Jesse and Dawson enjoyed playing in the sand.		Alexis (sister of Jesse), and Den Leaders Tamara Seadler and Linda Zimmerman enjoyed the beach.
Jesse enjoyed swimming with his teenage cousin who was a weekend "tag-along" with the Pack.		Wolf Den Leader Brian Seadler got into the water with the Cub Scouts.
Put two bigger guys and two smaller guys in water together and a chicken fight is inevitable!		Pack 868 scouts, leaders, parents, and siblings at the Sunday morning flag ceremony.