Troop One’s 11th Annual Crab Feed
WHEN: Saturday, January 25th, 2025
5:30 – 10:00 pm
WHERE: Ben Ali Shrine Center
3262 Marysville Blvd, Sacramento, CA 95815
Buy Tickets | Volunteer Sign-Up & Instructions
Silent & Dessert Auctions, Donation / Sponsor Info, & Patrol Baskets Sign-Up
Scout & Family Participation Requirements | Who to Contact
Buy Tickets || Return to Top
Tickets $70 per person ($77 if ordered online)
Two ways to order tickets:
- Fill out this Crab Feed order form and turn it in at a meeting or mail it to the address listed
- Order tickets online on EventBrite – $7 extra per ticket to cover EventBrite costs
Ticket sales end January 18, 2025 – TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR!
Volunteer || Return to Top
Many hands make light work! Please help us make this a FUNdraiser. We request that each family contribute 5 hours of their time before, during, or after the Crab Feed.
Click here to sign up for a volunteer position (password is the same as the roster). For questions, find the volunteer coordinator’s contact information here.
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.
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.
Volunteer dinner: Bread, salad, and pasta will be available in the volunteer ‘break room’ off the hallway by the kitchen door.
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!
Silent Auction & Dessert Auction || Return to Top
Donate an Item / Service / Experience to the Silent Auction & Patrol Baskets
(password is same as the roster)
Silent Auction Blank Bid Sheet | Donation Request Letter
Individual / Corporate Sponsorship Info | Donation Thank-You Letter
As part of the fundraiser, we’ll be hosting a Silent Auction and Dessert Auction.
Silent Auction
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 Anne Nguyen during any regular troop meeting by January 6, 2025.
Willing to call and solicit donations? Contact Anne Nguyen at [email protected] to confirm list of businesses.
Dessert Auction
Please bring donated cakes and desserts to the event and send Michelle Duncan an email at [email protected] let us know you are bringing one.
Scout & Family Participation Requirements || Return to Top
Each Scout must:
- sell tickets (minimum of 2 tickets – 2 per family if you have siblings in the troop)
- create patrol baskets – due by / delivered at the the January 13th meeting! Sign up for patrol baskets here on the 2nd tab
- decorate at event
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.
- At event: set up and clean up, work auction tables, work check-in tables, serving, cooking, raffle sales, and bartending
Who to Contact || Return to Top
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TICKET SALES Mail ticket forms to: VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR SCOUT PARTICIPATION COORDINATOR |
SILENT AUCTION DESSERT AUCTION GENERAL QUESTIONS |