The Annual Blue and Gold Banquet will be held on February 27 at the Casablanca Room on Campbell Barracks.  Setup at 1530, Event begins 1700.  Our theme this year is "Happy Birthday B.S.A" and we have a lot to celebrate.  This year Scouting turns 100 years old.  It has been one hundred years since Lord Baden Powell started Boy Scouts, but the ideals and leadership and fun has never changed.  Show your spirit and celebrate at Cub Scout's annual birthday, the Blue and Gold.  

Since the scouts will be receiving their rank advancement, we request the scouts dress in full Scouting uniform.

The Blue and Gold is an annual Birthday Celebration for the Cub Scouts and is Pack 284's opportunity to award all of the ranks that the Scouts have been working so hard on. The event will be a catered event this year so all that you will have to bring is the prize-winning cake. 

The dens are challenged to decorate their tables for the den and their families and a prize will be awarded to the den with the best decorations. We will also be awarding a prize to the best uniform presentation by our scouts.

We look forward to everyone's participation and we will all have a great time.

Date:  27 February 2010
Time:  1700 to 1930
Place:  Casa Blanca Room, Campbell Barracks

Guests:  
GEN and Mrs. Ham (asking GEN Ham to be the guest speaker)
COR:  Mr. Don Brown – American Legion
Rheingold DE:  Brian Raymond and Kathleen Raymond
USAG-H CDR:  LTC Rob White
Chaplain:  Chaplain Doug Kinder and Kathleen Kinder

General Information:
Four adults from each den for a total of 12 adults - Tigers, Wolves and Bears - are responsible for set up of this event.  It includes setting up tables and chairs, putting on table clothes and helping the decoration committee put up the decorations.  Time of set up TBD.  

The Webelos 1’s and 2’s and their parents are responsible for clean up after the event.  Kristin is responsible for cleaning supplies.

Webelos 2’s will be escorts for the distinguished guests/VIPs.

For planning purposes den leaders will collect RSVPs and forward number attending from each den to Jean Boyle NLT Friday February 19, 2010.  Invitations will be distributed at the pack meeting.

Please encourage families with older siblings (12 and up) to leave the older children at home.  Plainly stated if every family brought every family member, we wouldn’t have enough room (or food) for everyone to eat.  

Menu:   
•    Baked and fried chicken
•    Chicken breast patties with buns
•    BBQ meatballs
•    Ham
•    Macaroni and cheese
•    Rice
•    Rolls
•    Corn
•    Green beans
•    Green salad with an assortment of dressings
•    Iced tea, coffee, water, lemonade, punch
•    Condiments – ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, salt and pepper
•    Cake (Jean to order)






Time Line: (all times after flags are approximate)
1700 to 1715:  Gathering Activities - Time line scavenger hunt activity sheet, coloring sheets and crayons for younger siblings
1715:  Flags – Web 1’s
Welcome and Introductions – Cub Master
Centerpieces - Each den explains their centerpiece (Further instructions and materials to be given at January Pack meeting)
Invocation/Grace – Chaplain Kinder
1730:  Eat (guests first, then youngest to oldest)
1800:  Friends of Scouting Presentation – Either Brian Raymond or Jean Boyle
1815:  Guest Speaker
1825:  Awards – Cub Master and advancements
1850:  Cake Cutting (oldest scouter and youngest scout) and eating
1915:  Cub Master minute
1916:  Benediction
1920:  Closing Flags
1920:  Clean up