Cottonwood: All Hands on Deck! PDF Print E-mail
Written by Dan Bryan and Roy Carnes   
Thursday, 25 September 2008

Urgent update September 29, 2008: Cottonwood is this coming weekend and fewer  than 25% of our scheduled time slots are filled. To keep Cottonwood as a troop fund raiser, the troop is contractually bound to have a minimum number of adults hours. We are falling well short of our commitment and the troop is at risk of losing this terrific fund raiser.

We need a minimum of 9 adult volunteer hours per scout to make Cottonwood successful. We will be having sign up sheets at Monday's meeting. If you have not signed up already, please stop in when you drop off your son and sign up for a minimum of 9 hours.

Cottonwood Arts Festival
October 2-5, 2008

The Cottonwood Arts Festival is an important Troop 1001 service project and the troop's main fundraiser. The troop makes money three ways (largest to smallest): tips from the artists, a payment from the city, and water sales. The more people soliciting help, the more tips we make. Based on past years we need about 500 adult hours for Cottonwood to be successful, which equates to about 9 hours of adult help per scout. We need 100% participation to be successful!

Opportunities to Help

Thursday October 2:

Need 8 adults from 5 pm to 8 pm to help to set up the troop tent and to assist local artists for booth set up.

Friday, October 3:

Need help setting up the artists. Need 20 adults from 10 am to 4 pm and 12 adults and 12 scouts from 4 pm to about 7 pm. 

Saturday, October 4:

Festival hours are 10 am to 6 pm. Needed are 5 booth sitters for each 2-hour shift starting at 10 am and 4 beer garden attendants for each 2-hour shift starting at 11 am.

The booth sitter role is an excellent opportunity to for those who enjoy shopping for art, to mix a little shopping with fulfilling this important requirement. A person in this role is responsible for watching an artist booth during breaks and various other artists’ tasks.

The beer garden role is one of the easiest at the show and that is to make sure no alcoholic beverages are taken out of the beer garden. We want to have 2 uniformed adults at each of the 2 exits.

Sunday October 5:

Festival hours are 10 am to 6 pm. Needed are 5 booth sitters for each 2-hour shift starting at 10 am and 4 beer garden attendants for each 2-hour shift starting at 11 am. Please roles above.

We need every scout and adult available starting at 6 pm for artist tear down. This activity winds down about 9 pm and is critical for the success of the weekend. We need high participation from every family during load-out.

For more information or to sign up for specific time slots, contact Dan Bryan.

Last Updated ( Monday, 29 September 2008 )
 
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