Blue and Gold Banquet - May 2009 (Scouting the Great Outdoors"

We enjoyed a fun-filled evening at our Blue and Gold Banquet on May 9, 2009 at the Athens Bible School Cafeteria. "Scouting the Great Outdoors" was the theme of our banquet this year. Roger Bedingfield from Roger's Portraits set up a mini-studio to take pictures of our scouts and leaders. We enjoyed some great food and entertainment during the evening. Eric Roth, our Cub Master, prepared a great slideshow of this past year's scouting events. Our scouts also entertained us by performing amusing skits. We had a Father/Son Cake Decorating Contest - Bill and Nicholas Ulrich had the winning cake. Their cake featured campers sleeping in sleeping bags next to a campfire. Check out the picture of this winning cake in the slideshow above. The other participants did a great job, too. Chase and Kasey Harbin made a camping themed cake and Caleb Boyd made a very yummy dessert. All of those desserts were gobbled up quickly. We did not have very many left-overs. The Bear Den took top honors in the Table Decoration Contest with their "Trail Maps" theme. Each Bear in the den made a "hiking trail map" to display on the table. They used other camping gear as decorations on their table, too. They did a great job! You will see their winning table in the slideshow above. The Tigers made "Tiger" placemats and their table was decorated using a western theme. The Wolf Den was very creative in using a canopy over their "camping" themed table. They used items from various events they participated in during the year as decorations as well. The Webelos I and Webelos II joined forces in the competition this year to create a camping themed table, too. They made "scout friends" to display as if they were hiking in the woods. The Webelos II were depicted on a bridge to commemorate their "bridging ceremony" that took place as they crossed over from cub scouts to boy scouts. Thanks to all of those who helped set up and decorate for the banquet, prepared food, brought drinks and helped clean up afterward. Many thanks goes to all of our den leaders, assistant den leaders and other volunteers for all of the hard work you have done this year. We would also like to thank Eric and Melinda Roth for all of their hard work in organizing all of our pack activities. As Eric Roth becomes our new Chairman, we want to thank David Fortenberry for stepping up to take over the role as our new Cub Master. We have had a great scouting year and look forward to the summer activities and the activities that are planned for next year!