Parish Festival

Parish Festival

August 10-12, 2007
Broadview Heights, OH

This year we had many scouts from the troop participate in all the aspects of the festival such as in set-up, clean-up, and others. On Friday evening we enjoyed listening to two rock groups with a light crowd. Scouts stayed after and slept on the festival grounds the first night for security and the second night for security and to start to cook the chicken for the next day’s events.

On the first day of the official festival we ran the entry for the auto show and ran the ice cream booth in shifts. We also did night clean-up before cooking the chicken. The second day we attended Mass in the morning and prepared for the day’s events. We ran the ice cream booth again and participated in take down and clean-up for the festival. This year went very nice thanks to participation from many of the scouts. The few that stayed all weekend were Alex, DJ, Kyle, Joey J., Matt S., and Mr. Svihlik. Helping out at different times throughout the weekend, before and after the festival were Allen, Alex Da., Derek, Donald, Greg, Jacob W., Joe K., Joey P., John, Jordan, Justin, Kurtis, Nate, Nick, Peter, Ryan, Sam, Mr. Dzurnak, Mr. Makowski, Mrs. Verhovnik. Pictures anyone?

The Church of the Assumption Festival is a great opportunity for the troop to give back to our Charter Organization. Volunteering at the Festival will also qualify as service hours toward Citizenship in the Community Merit Badge. As a troop we will be helping out with setup, the ice cream booth, field games, and other tasks. The SPL is handling volunteer assignment and sign-up. Please talk with him to pick your slot. Anyone interested can spend Friday and Saturday night camping on the parish grounds provided you bring your own tent.

UNIFORM: We will be wearing both Class "A" and Class "B" uniforms throughout the weekend. Class "B" is either Troop 810 T-shirt or Summer Camp T-shirt and scout shorts. This is a must for showing off our troop and allowing other festival workers an easy way to identify us. Bring along an extra scout T-shirt for Saturday evening.

SCHEDULE
Wednesday, August 8th
6:00pm	Help with festival set up - approximately 2 hrs
Thursday, August 9th
6:00pm	Help with festival set up - approximately 2 hrs
Friday, August 10th
12:00pm	Help with festival set up
9:00pm-11:00pm	Rock Concert
11:00pm	Clean up and stay overnight
Saturday, August 11th
7:30am-8:00am	Wake-up
8:00am-1:00pm	Free time, scouts can head home to get cleaned up and take a break.
1:00pm	Return to help with set up.
3:15pm	Switch to Class "A" Uniform
3:30pm	Procession from Rte 82 and Broadview Rd to Church
5:00pm	Opening Ceremony (Class "A" uniform)
5:00pm-10:00pm	Festival - help out in designated areas (Class "B" uniform - Red Troop 810 T-shirt). Ice Cream Booth (hourly shifts) Other Areas as Needed
10:00pm	Clean up parish grounds
10:30pm	Stay overnight, Pre-cook chicken
Sunday, August 12th
6:30am-7:30am	Wake-up and Breakfast
7:30am	Attend mass (Class "A" uniform)
8:30am	Shuck sweet corn for chicken dinners followed by free time (Class "B" uniform - Scout T-shirt) - no one should leave until all the corn has been shucked.
10:00pm	Take down campsite
12:00pm	Scouts can leave at this time or stay to help with festival
1:30pm	Festival resumes

All scouts MUST check out with an adult leader before leaving the site and check in upon return.