Time Sensitive: Popcorn “Wagon Sales” Pre-Order Agreement & Parent Commitment
**Please Read**
Parents and Scouts,
As you know, the annual Popcorn sale is essential to the financial well-being of our Troop. What you may not know is that popcorn funds more that 60% of our annual operating costs. Popcorn is what buys cool things like Rank and Merit Badge patches, fun things like new tents and camp stoves and important things like new tires and brakes for Claire, the scout bus that Troop 934 owns and maintains.
What you also may not know is that for every $1.00 of top line revenue, Troop 934 automatically keeps about 35 cents. Another 30 cents of every dollar stays here in the council, indirectly benefiting your scout — for example, by funding upgrades and annual upkeep at Camp Raven Knob.
Door-to-door sales start Thursday, 1st September. Scouts will get order forms at the Welcome Back Picnic on Monday. However, we know that many parents prefer a simpler and more straightforward approach to popcorn – one that we call “Wagon Sales.”
Wagon Sales are where your Scout has an inventory of popcorn in his “wagon” as he walks door to door in the neighborhood. Instead of taking an order in September for delivery in mid-November, your Scout is able to immediately hand your neighbor his or her popcorn on the spot. The real benefit to you, as the parent, is do not have to help your scout chase deliveries into December.
Of course, there is a catch, at that catch is that you, as the parent, must make a small but meaningful commitment on behalf of your scout. That commitment is detailed in the order form that we have posted here https://www.troop934.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Wagon-Sales-Pre-Order-Agreement-Parent-Commitment.pdf and included (along with many other details) in the new “Popcorn” tab on our troop website, https://www.troop934.org/popcorn/
This Commitment form is due back to the Troop no later than 6.00pm this coming Sunday, 21st August. As noted in the form, we prefer that you turn it in to Ms. Treadway or Ms. Settlemire in person at MTUMC between 6.00 and 6.30pm. However, given the short notice (for which we do apologize!), an email submission is acceptable so long as it is received by the same deadline at the addresses detailed in the form.
Any questions please feel free to reach out to the members of the popcorn team:
- Matt Love, 2022-23 Popcorn Chair, matthewclove@yahoo.com
- Amanda Treadway, atread25@gmail.com
- Will Maddux, Treasurer, Troop 934 wom7701@gmail.com
Thank you!!!