Pack 104 scouts met by Cerrito Vista Park at 11 am by the Cerrito Vista Park upper picnic area, off of Avis Drive for Pack 104’s annual Earth Day service project! Thank you to the city of El Cerrito for supplying us with grabbers and garbage bags!! There was a great turn out, as always. We collected over 6 large bags of trash!

Pack 104 Scouts joined East Bay Trail Trekkers and the El Cerrito Green Team to help clean and rejuvenate the Baxter Creek Gateway Park on the morning of December 5, 2021. Here are some photos taken that day.

Scouting for Food is an annual food-collection drive, and one of the many service projects the BSA has conducted since 1910.

870,000 Bay Area residents and a quarter million residents in our council geography lack adequate access to food. Scouts can help make an impact by participating in the annual Scouting for food drive

The annual effort for Scouting in the Bay Area is coordinated in November.

Help us collect canned goods and other non-perishable food for the needy! We’ll be passing out flyers on Saturday, November 6 and picking up donations the following Saturday, November 13.

Details on when/where to bring the donations that have been collected will be sent out via email to the Pack 104 mailing list as the collection date approaches.

On Saturday, October 16th, Cubs from Pack 104 descended on several local school sites to clean up litter and other debris around the entranceways, parking lots, and street fronts.

In addition to visiting Harding Elementary School Fairmont Elementary School Madera Elementary School and Mira Vista Elementary School, they also managed to stop by and clean up around the El Cerrito Library and part of Upper Canyon Trail park.

Over the course of the morning, 31 volunteers from the Pack put in more than 60 hours of service.

Three cheers for the hardworking Scouts of Pack 104! Makes me a proud mom and happy to continue to be a part of this dynamic and helpful community-based group. #teamwork #serving #community #cleanup #localschools #pack104

On Sunday, August 15, 2021, Pack 104 scouts and families convened at 9 am at Camp Herms for our annual Camp Herms Clean Up service project.

Coffee and breakfast snacks were provided. Friends, family, neighbors and other volunteers from the community were invited to join in this service project. 29 volunteers attended this event, for a total of 83 hours of service. Big thanks to all the people who came out and to RJ, Ranger Sean, and Starla for coordinating the event details, volunteers and staff, food, tools, and other logistics.

For more info on Camp Herms site and history, visit: https://campherms.ggacbsa.org/

On Jun 6, 2021, Pack 104 met up with the Green Teams of El Cerrito and the El Cerrito Trail Trekkers to remove litter from Baxter Creek. The organizers from the city remarked that they had never seen such a huge turnout for one of these events – 41 participants from Pack 104!

With a such a large group, the pack made short work of the trash along the creek/greenway and got quite a bit accomplished on the weeds as well.

Based on our discussions with the city, they would like to partner up with the pack on projects like this at least a few times a year, and for future events they will try to also include some sort of educational component as part of the event!!

This is yet another very successful collaborative event and we’re excited have the opportunity to  contribute and make positive impacts on the environment and the local community.

If you and your family are not currently part of our pack, please consider joining us for the next community project!

For more info on this service project, please visit this event summary 

On Apr 30, 2021, the Bear Den planted trees at King Park, in partnership with the City of Berkeley.

Check out our photo gallery from this event below

Pack 104 met together to complete the annual Earth Day service project at Cerrito Vista Park this past Saturday April 24 at 10 am. The city of El Cerrito supplied us with grabbers and garbage bags. Please see gallery below for some photos taken that day! Thank you to all the families who came out.

#ECEarthDay21

Photo Credit: John Bowen, Thuy Nguyen, Natalie Tse

On Apr 18, 2021, 10am, Pack 104 scouts met up with the EC Trail Trekkers group and helped them remove invasive broom plants in the Hillside Natural Area. It was a great opportunity for families to get some fresh air and exercise, interact with others, while helping the environment. Thanks to all the scouts and families who came and contributed to this volunteer effort!

See gallery below for some photos that were taken.

Photo credit: John Bowen, Starla Lane, Michael Black and Roy Tse

The Pack 104 Bear den met up with the EC Trail Trekkers group at the north end of Regency Court and help them remove invasive broom plants in the Hillside Natural Area this Sunday, March 14, 2021. Thanks again to Dave Weinstein and his team at El Cerrito Trail Trekkers for leading and facilitating this activity, and for sharing a bunch of the action shots depicted in the gallery below. We appreciate the invitation and look forward to more opportunities to interact and collaborate.

Thanks to all the scouts and families who participated in this service project!