Troop One’s 3rd Annual Crab Feed
WHEN: Saturday, January 28th, 5:30 – 10:00 pm
WHERE: California Automobile Museum
2200 Front Street, Sacramento, CA 95818-1106
View Ticket Order Form | Buy Tickets Online | Sign Up to Volunteer
Donate Items for the Silent Auction | Donation Request Letter Template
(Passwords for the Volunteer Sign-Up and Silent Auction Donation page
are the same as the password for the roster.)
Tickets $60 per person ($64 if ordered online)
Event limited to 350 patrons.
Purchase tickets in two ways:
- Print and fill out this form, then return (with cash or check) to Christy King at troop meetings.You can also mail them to her:
- Troop 1
- c/o Christy King
- 1140 El Sur Way
- Sacramento, CA 95864
Questions regarding tickets? Contact Christy at [email protected] or 916-390-3222
- Fill out online order form ($4 extra per ticket to cover online portal costs).
Make sure to tell us who you would like to be seated with at your table. The seating will be prearranged this year.
If buying tickets, please include an email address to receive reminder notices and info about raffles and auction items.
Many hands make light work! Please help us make this a FUNdraiser. Each family is required to contribute 5 hours of their time before, during, or after the Crab Feed.
For any questions about volunteer opportunities, contact Natalie Selph: [email protected] or 916-343-2696.
Please sign up for a volunteer position here.
(Password is the same as for the roster.)
Crab Feed Volunteer Instructions
Dress: Black pants and white shirt.
Time: If you are setting up, please be there by 2:00 pm. If you are working at the event, please be there at 5:00 pm.
Check-in: Please make sure to sign the volunteer list in the hallway by the kitchen. Get your nametag there.
Volunteer dinner: Bread, salad, and pasta will be available in the volunteer ‘break room’ off the hallway by the kitchen door.
Table Servers: If you are serving, you will be assigned two to three table numbers. You will be responsible for serving those tables, replenishing water, serving bread, salad, pasta, serving and replenishing crab AND taking away the shells. You will also serve them any cakes they purchased if they did; as well as plates and cake server.
Promote scouts: Engage your guests and explain any questions they may have about Scouts or Camp Cody. Encourage the guests to root for the patrol that they are an member of for the evening. The boys in the patrol who win the Scout participation contest will get special privileges at Camp Cody.
Don’t forget to bid on some auction items and buy raffle tickets yourselves.
Thanks for volunteering to make this a great event.
And let’s have fun!
As part of the fundraiser, we’ll be hosting a Silent Auction and Cake Auction.
If you’d like to donate an item, service, or experience, please sign up here. (Password is the same as it is for the roster.)
To donate a cake or dessert, contact Amie Brousseau: [email protected] or (916) 718-9104.
Suggestions for auction items include gift certificates, experiences, wine, cabin loans, art items, etc. (Click here for a list of ideas.) Please get items to Elizabeth Brushwyler during any regular troop meeting by January 25.
Willing to call and solicit donations? Contact Elizabeth at [email protected] to confirm list of businesses. After January 25th, contact Jenny Jo Tileston for any question regarding the Silent Auction: [email protected] or (916) 956-0276.
You can use the two following templates to request donation items and thank donors afterwards – A Scout is Courteous!:
Donation Request Letter Template | Donation Thank-You Letter Template
Each Scout must:
- sell tickets (minimum of 2 tickets – 2 per family if you have brothers in the troop)
- create patrol baskets (due by the Jan 23rd meeting!) Sign up to help make patrol baskets here
- decorate at event
***Award at Cody for Patrol who scores the most points***
Each family:
- Must sell a minimum of 2 tickets per family! (After the minimum 2 are sold, your scout gets $25 in credits to their Scout account for each additional ticket sold.)
- Needs to donate 5 hours of time to the Crab Feed fundraiser (ahead of time or help work the event)
- Ahead of time: soliciting donations, purchasing, renting items, planning/purchasing decorations, coordinate patrol baskets, marketing, or planning committee meetings.
- Planning Committee meetings will be held during the scout meetings on December 12th and January 9th in the library at First United Methodist Church.
- At event: set up and clean up, work auction tables, work check in tables, serving, cooking, raffle and oyster ticket sales, bartending
- Click here for a list of volunteer positions.
- Ahead of time: soliciting donations, purchasing, renting items, planning/purchasing decorations, coordinate patrol baskets, marketing, or planning committee meetings.
| TICKET SALES Christy King 916-390-3222 [email protected] Mail ticket forms to: SCOUT PARTICIPATION COORDINATOR VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR |
SILENT AUCTION Elizabeth Brushwyler [email protected] CAKE AUCTION GENERAL QUESTIONS |