Good evening,

Thank you to the hard work of our team parents to secure a location for our picnic this year. We have sort of outgrown hosting at the pool and trying to find a date in August when there is less lifeguards available to work has been a challenge. 

Saturday October 5th is our swim team end-of-season picnic from 5:00-8:00 PM at Charlton United Methodist Church (5920 Jonestown Road; Harrisburg, PA 17112). You may begin arriving around 4:30, but please be sure to have all dishes there by 5:00 PM. This is for all members of the team, including mini team members.

*We will have tables and chairs available!*

We are asking that you please try to RSVP for the picnic by Tuesday October 1st (although earlier is appreciated so we can make sure to have enough of the main dish ordered!) food sign-ups can be made a bit longer after that deadline. If you are attending, please see the list to sign-up to bring something.

Please log in to your swimtopia accounts and RSVP. Please make sure that you follow the instructions on the RSVP (and below) and sign-up to bring something (we do this potluck style). You will need to use the website rather than the app to RSVP as this is not in the system as a swim meet and therefore does not work with the app currently.

If you are attending please be sure to sign up for food to bring to our potluck, it is listed as "jobs". If there is something you'd like to bring not listed, please reach out and it can be manually added for you as long as you RSVP'd.

Please write in the comments on Swimtopia for the following if you are attending (just in case you have issues with sign-ups or issues with parent accounts not being linked):

• Total # Attending from your family (include parents, swimmers, and non-swimmers) if you cannot figure out how to add non-swimtopia guests such as non-swimmer siblings.
• Any allergy/food restriction information we need to be aware of
• Any food you bring should be free of nuts/tree nuts as we have several allergies on the team; if you have dishes that are gluten free a label would also be appreciated!

For those of you new to the team please know the following items:
1. This is potluck style, everyone is asked to bring something. The team provides the main dish (Fried/baked Chicken that we get from Giant) drinks, and a cake/cupcakes. *I have sign-ups for 3-5 servers this year to reduce the amount of touching on items for the chicken*
2. Dinner will be served around 5:30 to 6:00 PM, please make sure that your dish is there well before then.
3. There are outlets available for crockpots.

4. Please label your utensils!
5. We are asking for help with clean up

I hope this is as easy as possible and all in one place this year. If you have questions please let me know. Please note that I'm a bit slower with emails as my season has kicked off at the college and we are having some staffing issues at the pool. 

***If you cannot attend simply RSVP as well, there will be pick-up later of team gift and ribbons. By stating you won't be attending it will help with who needs to have items picked up/sorted.

All awards, pictures, etc. will be available at our banquet!

Thanks everyone we hope to “see” you there!

Jess