Cub Scout Pack 518
Welcome to Cub Scouts
Scouting gives youth opportunities for exhilarating activities that create confidence, build leadership skills, and make new friends that last a lifetime.
In Anoka, MN Pack 518 boys and girls in kindergarten through fifth grade can experience the adventure of Cub Scouting. We meet Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30 pm during the school year and would love to add your family to our pack!
Den Meetings are with the grade level group and are used to work toward completing Adventure requirements to advance to the next rank. They are on the 1st, 3rd & 5th Tuesdays of each month during the school year
from 6:30-7:30pm, at the Masonic Lodge:
1900 3rd Ave
Anoka, MN 55303-2421
Pack Meetings are when all the Cub Scout Dens all come together for Adventure awards, recognition,
and other fun activities. They are on the 2nd Tuesday of each month during the school year
from 6:30-7:30pm, at Anoka City Hall:
2015 1st Ave
Anoka, MN 55303
with a Pack "Go See It" or Celebration on the 4th Tuesday at various locations.
Freemasonry and Scouting
Freemasonry's relationship with Scouts started with a Freemason named Daniel Carter Beard. Bro. Beard was made a Mason in Mariner's Lodge No. 67, New York City, NY, and later affiliated with Cornucopia Lodge 563, Flushing, NY. In the late 1800's he founded a male youth program called the "Society of the Sons of Daniel Boone." By 1905, the program had become "The Boy Pioneers." The man who would create the first "Boy Scouts," and be known as its founder, was Lord Robert Baden-Powell of Great Britain. Lord Baden-Powell, who was not a Mason, read of Beard's program and, based on his own military experience, developed what is known as the "Boy Scouts." In 1910, the Boy Scout program came to America when Bro. Beard merged his organization into the "Boy Scouts of America" and became its first National Commissioner.
Bro. Beard, known affectionately as "Uncle Dan" by millions of Boy Scouts, worked tirelessly to create the Scouting Program that we know today. He developed the elements of the Scout badge and the Scout uniform, and wrote and illustrated various early publications of the BSA. Bro. Beard exemplified the Masonic ideals throughout the Scouting program.