SLAGA Spring Picnic Event Cache

SLAGA Spring Picnic ** Saturday, April 29, 2023

Lindbergh Shelter  in  James McDonnell Park

This year's Spring Picnic will be hosted by GeoConformity and BlueDaisy at the James McDonnell Park in St. Louis County.

The park entrance is located off of Adie Road in St Ann, MO. 

Note the posted Park Entrance Coordinates!

DETAILS:  

SLAGA will be supplying hamburgers, brats, and hotdogs (let us know how many of each you want in your "Will Attend"), along with plates, napkins and utensils. We ask that you bring a side dish or other food to share and your drinks. The prices will be as follows:

• SLAGA Premium Member Adults $5.00

• Non-Premium Member Adults $7.00

• Kids 5-12 $3.00

• Kids 4 and under  - free

MILESTONES:

We will be making our Spring Milestone awards to all those SLAGA premium members, so let us know your achievements for your award of 100, 500, 1,000, 5,000, 10,000 or 25,000 finds.   To Submit your Milestone, log into the SLAGA web site, and under the User Menu, select Milestone Submission on the drop down box. Fill out the form and submit.

Please post your "Will Attend" log as soon as you can with the number of people attending, your meat choice(s), and how many of each you'd like. This allows us to order what we need without buying too much.

Please list what dish you will be bringing as well. We will be having a 50-50 drawing (you must be present to win), Geo Bingo, Silent Auction, Travel Bug Table, and Closest to the Pin contest.  In Addition, there will be the start of the 2023 Travel Bug Race!
 

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:

• 9:30 a.m. - Set up.

• 10:30 a.m. - Registration begins.

• 10:30 - 11:00 am. - Travel Bug Race Signup,  Travel Bugs in the Race will be set into motion by The SLAGA Board on June 1.

• 11:30  - Lunch

• 1:00 p.m. -Group Photo!

• 1:15 p.m. - General announcements and business, Milestone Awards, Silent Auction and 50-50 winners, all game winners, and Premium Membership drawing.

VOLUNTEERS:

As always, we need volunteers to help with the following jobs (and any other activities that you would like to add to the festivities):

• Setup:                                            Geoconformity,  Curious GEOrge 3 

• Cooks:                                           turtleladi1020nHubbs,  Javapgmr, (DFox88 if needed)

• 50-50 Ticket Sales:                        3Nina

• Travel Bug Monitor:                      6dancer

• Silent Auction:                            

• GeoBingo:                                     GeoKid12

• Travel Bug Race Coordinator:       Mark Derr

• Closest to the Pin:                        Strider

• Clean up:                                     GeoConformity, MrsSpongy

• SLAGA Apparel Distribution:       nan-d1955