Good evening Troop 435! Sorry for the delayed delivery, but I went straight from Camp and Cook to my Spring Break Vacation!
Kudos and recognition are well deserved for a weekend of significant accomplishments by Troop 435. The entire Camp and Cook event last weekend went beautifully! The coordination, cooperation, and effort…between the Scouts, the adult leaders, and the Church…Outstanding! Fantastic job everyone! Thank you! The weekend was gorgeous and the Scouts made a great impression upon the Church and its membership with their camping skills, cooking skills, great work ethic and cheerful attitudes!
We were blessed with perfect weather the whole weekend. The following is a list of our accomplishments on Saturday:
• Set up Camp
• Cleared out the barbecue pit area, tearing apart the pit, saving reusable items and clearing the rest of the debris.
• Had Marco’s Pizza for lunch – and Marcos Padmanabhan insisted he did not make the pizza even though his name was all over it…
• Cleaned up the front yard of the church from leftover construction debris from the playground redevelopment project done by the church.
• Played Games and relaxed in the warm sunshine
• Enjoyed delicious fresh grilled hamburgers and hot dogs for dinner, prepared by Jenn Crea and a group of Scout volunteers and cooked by grillmaster Tim Lyles.
• Topped off with tasty frozen desserts (a true rarity on any campout!) provided by the Crea’s.
• More fun and games.
• Early bedtime to recharge the batteries for the early Sunday wake up call
The adult overnighters made sure everyone got to bed at a reasonable hour and maintained a small campfire until they too had to get some sleep.
Markay, the breakfast cooking coordinator, arrived at the crack of dawn Sunday and started gathering her troops of adults and scout cooking patrols. Our brave adult leaders, Maria, Melodie, Alex, Jennifer and Darren, headed up the various cooking stations. The Scout cooking patrol was comprised of Soorian, Sean, Joseph, Marcos and our two attending Hawks, Chris and Brandon. The cooking patrols were up before dawn, getting out of their comfy beds, getting into their Class A’s to head to the kitchen where MarKay orchestrated their movements into a symphony of cooking magic! We would like to give special recognition to Joseph for being an outstanding contributor, seeking and taking on extra responsibility and independently finding ways to help.
Building on last year’s performance, MarKay led the cooking patrol to the perfect delivery of a wonderful breakfast in the theme of the Boy Scouts fleur-de-lis. Thank you, Markay, for volunteering and buying all of the cooking supplies, preparing everything the night before, then coordinating the big day!
Together we prepared and served breakfast for about 40 church members and 35 Troop 435 participants. We had 3 Scout Patrols rotating cooking, serving and cleaning assignments, and all did their jobs quite impressively. What a great job Scouts!
The Men’s Club and the congregation loudly applauded the cooking patrol for their fine job, the Troop for their hard work, and in a very humbling gesture, made a contribution of $500 to Troop 435. We are very proud and thankful to those that participated and represented us so well!! Thank you!
After breakfast, we filled two whole rows in the church service with our Scouts and their parents. It was a very fulfilling service, and the Troop was mentioned with very high praise.
Finally, after all was done, the Troop packed up, cleaned up and bugged out in a quick and orderly manner. What a satisfying accomplishment!
Thanks again to all participating Scouts, Adult Leaders, and our Sponsor, the East Cobb United Methodist Church, for making this a very successful event for Troop 435!
Lee B.
Troop Committee
2013 Camp and Cook Coordinator
P.S. If I left some very important participants and/or activities off this summary, it is only because there was simply too many great things going on, so many major contributors to the success of the weekend, that it was just impossible to remember all of the great things that went into this event.
