Golden Broom Award

This was a hard fought competition for the cleanest cabin award, or the Golden Broom Award. The cleanest cabin in each area gets an award every day. We, the adult leaders in lower camp, thought we should win. We did a great job at cleaning up our cabin every morning. On the first day of cabin inspections, we had done a great job. Then some of the Youth Leaders hadn't brought any materials to teach the 4th year girls how to make bedrolls. Nancy Palmer sent them to our cabin to get her bedding to use to demonstrate. They ripped the sheets off her bed and all her nicely stacked clothes were all dumped everywhere. When our YLs inspected our cabin, they were not impressed. They left a note, "Dear Adult Leaders, You WOULD HAVE won the golden broom, but, Nancy Palmer...self explanatory. Love, your YLs." We harassed them a bit and plead our case, but were unsuccessful at swinging the vote in our direction. Everything was in order and ready for inspection on day two. I don't know what exactly kept us from winning, but the note that day on the door said we were looking better but were not quite there. It was our last chance to win it on Friday. Jan swept the cabin (plus porch and stairs) two or three times to be sure everything was in order. Our name tags on the door were straightened and alphabetized. Candy was sprinkled on each of our pillows to share with our inspectors. A cute note was taped to the door, "Welcome Cabin Inspectors! Please enjoy your stay. Have a wonderful day! Love, Adult Leaders" All day we campaigned for the award every chance we got to encourage the YLs in the right direction. The good news? WE WON!! And we received the award with all the graciousness in the world, or maybe it was hooping and hollering...I can't remember. :)