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Popcorn Sale
CJ Salzano - Popcorn Colonel
Message from the King of POP our Popcorn Colonel
Did you know that Cub Scouts have Xtreme Fun selling popcorn!
Pack 146 scouts, guess what time it is? You're right! It's popcorn time again.
What an exciting popcorn season we have planned this year. Keep reading this email to learn more about how you can earn lots of great prizes just for selling some popcorn.
Camping equipment, portable radio, sleeping bag, backpack, digital camera, 2-room tent, baseball jersey
---- these are just a few of the great prizes that you can earn by selling popcorn this fall.
Ok, Moms, Dads, and scouts, by now you should have received your Xtreme
That means that you can start taking popcorn orders now by filling out the order form for each sale that you make. That's right, you can start NOW selling to family, friends, and neighbors. Just have them fill out a line on your order form so you can keep track of who ordered what. They don't have to pay now, not until the popcorn comes in. (See below for more details on how to sell...) We will also be handing out forms at our upcoming pack meetings.
Popcorn selling is our single and primary fund raiser throughout the year. It only take a small amount of participation from each scout to make it a success. This fund raiser isn't just for the "other scouts",
it's for you! Please plan to sell at least a few boxes of popcorn to help out with this great cause. The pack uses the funds raised to do some great things for the pack including sponsoring pack camping trips
and purchasing equipment for the pack!
The product line up this year is similar to last year. We will be selling microwave popcorn and pre-popped popcorn and carmel covered popcorn in tins. The new product for this year will be microwave Kettle Corn. I'll bet you can smell it popping now :-)
Here is some details on what we will be doing.
- There are 3 types of popcorn selling that we do. Pre-sales,
Show-and-Sell, and Booth Sales. Pre-sales is when you sell popcorn between now and mid-October with only your order form in hand. That's right, starting NOW... Go on out, bring your order form and start
selling to family, friends, and neighbors. (You're probably familiarwith this type of selling, this is how the girl scouts sell cookies. You take orders and tell customers that you will deliver the popcorn and
collect money in mid-October. Another type of selling that we do is called Show-and-sell, this is when you sell popcorn starting in mid-October when you can have the popcorn in hand, show the popcorn and
sell, sell, sell !! And finally, Booth Sales is the type of selling where we set up a booth or table in front of a store, or at our school craft fair, or outside of our church and sell to passers-by... Again, another very effective and easy way to sell popcorn!
- Don't forget, when you take pre-orders you shouldn't take payment until your deliver popcorn to the customer
- When you do Show-and-Sell, you will take payment for the order at the time of the sale
- During the upcoming weeks we will give you more information on how to tell us how many boxes you sold on order
- Once we get our big shipment of popcorn we will have designated times to come pickup your boxes. The popcorn pickup will likely be at the Popcorn Kernel's house. You can pickup enough boxes to fill your orders
and to do show-and-sell popcorn selling. You will not have to pre-pay the popcorn kernel for your popcorn. We will continue to allow you to sign out boxes of popcorn and pay us once you sell the boxes. But
please, only take as much as you can sell... No returns to the kernel !!
- Show-and-sell is very effective, we have found that you can typically sell to 3 out of 5 houses!
- Be sure and read the "Safety Tips" and "Selling Tips" on the order form. They are very important! They include:
Always sell with another scout or with an adult, NEVER enter anyone's home....
Always wear your uniform, Always say "Would you like to support scouting by buying some popcorn..."
That's about it for now...
Let's have a great year selling popcorn to make ours the best scouting pack!! Stay tuned for more popcorn info...
Your Popcorn Kernel
C.J. Salzano
POPCORN PICKUP TIMES
Every Wednesday evening at St. Timothy school and every Saturday at my house starting this week, through the end of November
--Wednesday evenings at STS, 7:00 - 8:00 pm
--Saturday at my house in South Riding, from 11:00am - 12:00pm (directions below)
I will try to be there each week at both of these times, but please try to call or email that you will be there and let me know what you want so I can have enough cases with me!!!!! Some of the Saturdays have other conflicting events such as the booth sales, baseball, swimming, etc... that I may be attending, so please, please, please try and call before coming out, I'd hate to see you waste a trip~
(703) 327-9555 home
(703) 728-1380 cell
Any other time by appointment, just call me and we'll setup a time.
I can also bring cases to your Den meetings at STS
Directions from St. Timothy it's about a 15 minute drive to the Salzano's house in South Riding
- Turn left out of the St. Timothy church parking lot onto Poplar Tree.
- Turn left at the first light onto Walney Rd.
- Stay on Walney and proceed through Rt. 28 and Walney will become Braddock Road
- Stay on Braddock Road for about 5 miles a-l-l-l-l the way to the entrance to South Riding. Along the way
you will pass Stone Road, then Chantilly National Country Club, then up a steep winding road, then through the
Pleasant Valley Road intersection (Cox Farm on the left)... keep going... yes you are still in Virginia ....
the South Riding entrance is about a mile past Cox Farm on Braddock on the right.
- When you turn into South Riding you will be on Land's End Rd.
- Take an immediate left onto Rachel Hill Rd.
- Stay on Rachel Hill for about 1 mile, you will see Little River elementary school on your right.
- Take a left just beyond the school onto Glasgow Drive (if you get to Edgewater, you missed it, go back!)
- Go about 1/2 mile to our house on the right. Just put your nose out the window and smell for that
famous cub scout popcorn aroma!
Salzano's
26091 Glasgow Drive
South Riding, Va 20152
(703) 327-9555 home
(703) 728-1380 cell
 Booth sales are back on. As announced at last week's Pack meeting, we sold Sunday after masses. Those sales went well. The next sales - including THIS weekend - are listed below. Please contact CJ immediately to sign your Den up to participate. This year we are asking for one Den to be responsible for the entire sale instead of trying to work out individual times for each Den. If Den's want to split that weekend, that's great, but one Den will coordinate the times for all.
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Oct 11 (Sat), Greenbriar Giant, 8:00am - 12 noon
Oct 12 (Sun), Greenbriar Giant, 8:00am - 12 noon
Oct 18 (Sat), Stone Road Giant, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Oct 19 (Sun), Stone Road Giant, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Nov 16 (Sun), Greenbriar Giant, 8:00am - 12 noon
Nov 23 (Sun), Greenbriar Giant, 8:00am - 12 noon
Nov 29 (Sat), Franklin Farms, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Nov 30 (Sun), Franklin Farms, 9:00am - 3:00pm
Pop Corn Pictures
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