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It’s that time of the year again. Planning has already been underway for our 2011 Highland Night Out/Highland Ball.
The date has been decided upon, and is set for March 19th at this time.
We will be holding the event at Camp Wisdom.
At this time the ticket prices are 20.00 in advance and 25.00 at the door.
Early registration will cut off on March 11st 2010, Please put your RSVP in by this date on the event page.
Dinner this year will be Lasagna and the them will be St. Patrick’s Day.
The page for the Highland Night Out will be updated with any new information as it becomes available.
Ervin & Gail hit the road around 4:00 Friday morning so we could miss the Ft Worth traffic, and pulled into Graham around 8:30. Found a good spot & started setting up. Joseph & Sara got there around 12:00. We all ate a good meal at the dinner across the street & went back to finished setting up wagon in the rain, Lynn Jackson came in around 3:00. It cleared up a little for the wagon inspection at 4:30pm. They started bringing food shortly after the meeting of all the wagons there was six this year & some pretty tough competitors were there. We all went to the Montana Restaurant and ate a good meal, and also planned out game strategy for Saturday before retiring. It came a flood Friday night. After breakfast Saturday morning we started getting ready for the big day. Jimmie Hollandsworth came in around 12:00 just ta visit & see about maybe getting a cook-off setup for Celina. He ended up staying and helping us cook & serve. He fit right in with our crew & wagon. We started serving at 6:00 right after turning in our judge’s samples. We were one of the first ta sell out. We really got a lot of good comments on our food and wagon & even booked a job for next September on a dude ranch in Graham more details on this later.
The judging was tough & there was quite a few this this year but 1298 is getting better this year we did 3rd in Beans, 3rdin Potatoes, 3rd in Most Congenial wagon, 4th in Desert.
Lynn Did a great job on his Biscuits & all agreed that his was the best, but the judges like sour dough. His gravy was great but they don’t judge gravy (OH we had people from other wagons come for gravy, biscuits & cobbler). What do the Judges know? We had a ball after the results with lots of singing & dancing. Once this was over we loaded up & came home Saturday night.
The weather held after the skies cleared Saturday morning, & we all had a great time.
A very special to Jimmy & Lynn for their help I hope we’ll be seeing more of them.
This was Sat Sept 18 Downtown Garland.
We (Ervin & Gail) showed up Friday around 1:00 found our place & started setting up the wagon, the weather was pretty warm until about three clock & a little cold front blew in. Reggie got there a little later & helped us finish up the camp. we stayed at a nearby hotel and got a good early start sat morning about 5:00. Derrick Parks from Crew 1818 & Reggie got there around 7:00 and we started preparing beef stew for a pretty good crowd. Randy May, his crew & wagon rolled in and began set up. There were a total of 4 wagons. We ran slap dab outa stew & cobbler. Had a lot fun met some good people & all got a new Cowboy hat as prize. We also got show up money didn’t win any categories, but all our food was gone & they kept coming back for more. We will probably do this one again next year.
We will be having our monthly crew meeting on Oct. 9th at 11:00 AM. The meeting will last no longer than 1:00 pm. We will be meeting in the blacksmith shop.
We will be discussing:
Popcorn Reminder
Parent and Pal (who will be there and what will be being done.)
Winter Activity (decision made, yes or no on activity.)
Highland Night Out (decision yes or not, and date.)
Youth Protection training reminder for adults.
Address to Camp:
6400 W Red Bird Ln
Dallas,TX 75236
We are going to have the meeting this coming weekend, and meet starting around 9:00 am. We will be sharing the pool with at least 3 other unit. Please remember to bring 2.00 to cover the cost of the pool. We will be having pizza for lunch (change of plans) please bring some cash for this 5.00 or so. We will have water to go with lunch due to the heat outside.
We are planning to have the meeting around 1:00 and eat around 12:00.
If you have any questions please let me know.
YIS/YIV,
Reggie Jackson
VC 1298 Advisor
For all adults that are registering with the Crew, Venturing Youth Protection Training (VYPT) is required by National.
Please visit http://www.myscouting.org and log in to your account or create one.
Take VYPT under the training tab.
Any questions, please contact us.
Hope everyone is having a great summer, we have out July meeting coming up on July 10th. We have another group that wants to come out and see what we’re all about. Let’s start the day early around 9 or so, fire up the forges and have a good time.
The meeting will be at the blacksmith shop at Camp Wisdom Dallas, Texas.
What’s everybody’s vote for lunch do we want to cook something there or go out and eat? Please leave a reply on the post, or e-mail the crew 1298 yahoo group list.
Meeting agenda:
August pool party
Chuck Wagon cook-off in Graham
Winter Activity
Texas master gardeners convention
Highland Ball 2011
I know there’s a few more things that I’m missing if you would reply to this post, or e-mail the crew 1298 yahoo group with them and we’ll get them on the agenda.
There will be no meeting in June due to summer camp and lots of people are out of town.
We will have the meeting in July 10th to plan for the pool party in Aug.
Please pass this information on to anyone who might not be getting this e-mail.
I want to thank everyone that was able to come out for the great job they did with the setup and tear down. We were one of the 1st groups in, and the 1st or 2nd group out at tear down time. This was the best year as the wagon was ½ way home to Corsicana at 3:45 and by that time I was unloaded at Camp Wisdom and on my way home. Much different from the years before where it was starting to get dark before we were started home.
We had lots of traffic though out the day with lots of questions and oos and ahh’s .
The pictures have been uploaded of Scout show here.
Let’s get ready for a good meeting June the 12th at Camp Wisdom with some blacksmithing in the morning and maybe a lunch as it looks as we will have some visitors.
Setup the chuck wagon (no Canvas), setup display tables with blacksmithing items & foundry items, setup display table with highland books and stuff.
We will be talking taking questions and promoting the programs, and recruiting.
Anyone who can come out even for a little bit will be great, especially around setup and tear down time.
Scout show runs from 10:00 am till 3:00 pm, We can start setting up at 7:00 AM.
We are working out the exact time that we will meet and were we will meet at this time.
If what I am saying is different from the meeting please let me know as I was not able to be there, and this is from the discussions I have had lately with a few people.
We also need to get a roll call of who will be at scout show and what time you can come out and help a little.
Please let us know via the yahoo group, if you are not on the group, please sign up, or use the contact us form to the left.
I know some have finals on Sat., (why they would do this I have no clue), just so we can see who all can come help.
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