From Scouts-L@tcu.edu Tue Oct 28 10:15:34 1997 Return-Path: Scouts-L@tcu.edu Received: from outbound.Princeton.EDU (outbound.Princeton.EDU [128.112.128.84]) by cap1.CapAccess.org (8.6.12/8.6.10) with ESMTP id KAA24165; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:15:34 -0500 Received: from lightpost by outbound.Princeton.EDU with SMTP id <541338-18605>; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:08:10 -0500 Received: from pucc.Princeton.EDU (pucc.Princeton.EDU [128.112.129.99]) by outbound.Princeton.EDU (8.8.0/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA27463; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:07:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin MAILER@TCUBVM) by PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 4051; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:04:54 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (NJE origin LISTSERV@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7572; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:07:36 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LISTSERV release 1.8b) with NJE id 7562 for SCOUTS-L@TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:06:42 -0500 Received: from TCUBVM (NJE origin SMTP@TCUBVM) by TCUBVM.IS.TCU.EDU (LMail V1.2a/1.8a) with BSMTP id 7561; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 09:06:41 -0500 Received: from ipgate.actx.edu by tcubvm.is.tcu.edu (IBM VM SMTP V2R2) with TCP; Tue, 28 Oct 97 09:06:38 CDT Received: from AMARILLO_COLLEGE-Message_Server by ipgate.actx.edu with Novell_GroupWise; Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:04:40 -0500 X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise 4.1 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 08:59:51 -0500 Reply-To: Terry Slade Sender: Scouts-L Youth Group List From: Terry Slade Subject: Our Spook-o-ree To: Multiple recipients of list SCOUTS-L Status: RO X-Status: We do a Spook-o-ree here in Amarillo with the Golden Eagle District. The way it goes is we limit the attendance to 300 cubs on each of 3 Saturdays for a total of about 900 or so. The cost is $10:00 per person and the cub gets a t-shirt, a patch, and a day of fun. Each Saturday starts at 12 noon with 10 events set in a round-robin type where groups of about 30 rotate through every 30 minutes. The standard tug-o-war, relay races, egg tosses and the like are the events with 1 parent for every 5 cubs as walk throughs. At 6pm, the rest of the parents start showing up with picnic dinners and to pick up the cubs. Each cub also gets 2 tickets. 1 for the spook house and the other for the ghost walk. Each walk through parent also gets 2 tickets. I was in charge of the spook house for the last 4 years which is the camp dining hall with black plastic on the windows and divided up into a maze of rooms that some troops set up. The ghost walk is a ravine set up by a different troop each weekend. We sell extra tickets for $1:00 to parents and family and also to those cubs that want to go through a second time. We did not do tickets until last year when the year before we had so many cubs going through the events until well after 10pm over and over again. We try to encourage only cubs and we try to tell the webelos that they should go to Camp-o-rees and skill-o-rees as they are a little old for the cuby events and it also helps keep the average age much younger. I am trying to drop the program for next year ( I am the District Activity Chairman ) in favor of a cub Olympics to be held at the stadium and to go along with the games next year. Terry Slade tmslade@actx.edu Amarillo,Tx Golden Spread Council