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TRAILBLAZER DISTRICT PINEWOOD DERBY AT THE NUT TREE

May 19, 2012

“Gentlemen start your engines” will be the cry of the day on Saturday morning May 19th at the Nut Tree Plaza.  All pre-registered Cub Scout Pinewood Derby top finishers from Dixon, Vacaville, and Winters packs will gather to find out whose car is the fastest.  The 1st, 2nd and 3rd place finishers for each age group in their individual packs are invited to participate.  Cub Scouts dens of Tiger, Wolf, Bear and Webelos will be prowling around the derby site near the carousel dressed in their uniforms.  They will weigh-in their cars and try their luck at being the fastest in their age group.

                           Check-in starts at                           Racing starts at

Tiger                           9:30                                               10:00

Wolfs                          10:00                                             10:30

Bears                         10:30                                              11:00

Webelos                     11:00                                              11:30

The final race will be a 12 noon to determine who has the fastest car!

Pack leaders need to contact Linda Maseda at 707-469-0940 to register their scouts.

Open Class Racing – All current and former Scouts, brothers and sisters, grandparents, adults, and others from the community are welcome to join in the open class racing after the Cub Scouts have completed their official races.  So check those closets and old shoe boxes in the garage and dust off your prized pinewood derby car from when you were a Scout so you can join the race and have some fun.  As long as you car will fit on the track and go through the finish line gate, you are welcome to race.

For additional information contact Barry Gordon at 707-332-0681 or barrygordon@sbcglobal.net  or Linda Maseda at fredmaseda@hotmail.com

Scouting's Journey to Excellence

“Scouting’s Journey to Excellence” is the BSA’s new council performance recognition program designed to encourage and reward success and measure the performance of our units, districts, and councils. It is replacing the Centennial Quality Awards Program as a means of encouraging excellence in providing a quality program at all levels of the BSA. More information is available here.

Trailblazer Mailing List

Check out the Info List at mail.gec-bsa.org/mailman/listinfo/trailblazerlist_gec-bsa.org. Signing up will help us keep you informed about goings on in the district.

Roundtable Meeting:

Who: for all Scoutmasters, Cubmasters, Webelos Leaders, Den Leaders, Tiger Partners and other unit leaders.
When: The first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm.
Where: Wrentham LDS church, 480 Wrentham Dr, Vacaville.

District Committee Meeting:

Who: for District Officers and Unit Charter Organization Representatives.
When: Third Thursday of every month at 7:00pm.
Where: VacaValley Hospital Conference Room (near the cafeteria)

Trailblazer Key 3:

District Executive, Brad Wilson - bwilson@gecbsa.org
District Commissioner, Ben Skiles - bhskiles@aol.com
District Chairman, Fred Maseda - fredmaseda@hotmail.com

What's on the Trailblazer site? • Units - listing of Trailblazer units and meeting locations • Calendar - Calendar with District events • Training - description and schedule of available training classes • Leadership for Trailblazer - district leaders and committee chairmen contacts • Trailblazer News - listing of scheduled District and Council events • District News - Current district events, training, opportunities and other "items of interest" • Advancement - Info on Merit Badge Trail Drive and Eagle rank procedure • Awards - Lists of Trailblazer Eagles, Silver Bears and "Of-the-Year" award winners • Cracker Barrel - information on hiking trails, backpacking trails, summer camps and a bunch more (Folsom Treks, RimRover, etc.)

A Brief History of Trailblazer District Previous to July 1, 1972, Golden Empire Council had a larger district, called Solano District, which covered Fairfield, Travis Air Force Base and all of what is presently Trailblazer District. The Council decided it would be more effective to have smaller districts. So, effective 1 July, 1972, Solano District was split into two districts. The new Solano District was Fairfield and Travis Air Force Base. Several years later, that new Solano District was moved into the Mt. Diablo-Silverado Council in a council consolidation. Our district was called the Vacaville-Dixon District. The first District Chairman was Walt Graham and the first District Commissioner was Dave Fleming. Dave became the second District Chairman on July 1, 1973 and served as chairman until Dec 31, 1976. During this two and half years, the district got tired of being called the Vacaville-Dixon District and had a contest to pick a new name, and later to design a patch. The contests were held and the result was Trailblazer District, with our current patch.   Contributed by David Fleming