What's Poppin'
11/08/2019

TAKE ORDER BASIC PICK-UP INFORMATION

District Kernels will be reaching out to you to schedule a time for your pickup. This will eliminate congestion at the site on November 9 th for pick-up. You will be receiving an email the week of November 4th with additional details. If you are picking up at the Lancaster warehouse, the location is in Greenfield Park at 1905 Olde Homestead Lane, Lancaster, PA 17601. This is a DIFFERENT LOCATION FROM LAST YEAR. Pickup times will be between 2:00 and 7:00.
 
From Route 30, exit onto Greenfield Road and head east to the light at the visitor’s center and make a right onto Hempstead Road. Continue to Olde Homestead Lane and make a left. Cross over William Penn Way and as you continue on Olde Homestead Lane the road will turn to the right. Immediately after the turn the warehouse will be on the left. We are in suite 101, the first suite of building 1905. If you reach Colonial Village Lane you went too far. The docks are located at the rear of the building. Someone will be there to direct you to which door to load your product.
 If you are picking up at Camp Mack your product will be at the training center. If you have not been to Camp Mack before, follow the main road. Go through the gates. The training center sits on the hill to your left. If you reach the Alley Action Center and Campfire ring you went too far.  Pickup times will be between 3:00 and 6:00.

Anyone who is willing to come out and help sort is welcome to take their product with them when they are done sorting. Contact your District Kernel or Executive for specifics. There will be a product summary for your records and a council copy that you will sign verifying product receipt. We will also have your sale invoice for you at that time. If you ordered nuts they will be on separate receipts. All product must be verified before it is loaded into your car(s). Any shortage will either be adjusted in your records or arrangements will be made to get it to you. Any damaged product will need to be noted at pick-up.

If you have any questions, contact your district kernel or district executive.


INVOICE AND PAYMENTS
 
We had hoped to have your invoices for you when you picked up your popcorn and nut order on November 15 th . We are still working towards that end but have run into some snags with the new system and will email them to you, if they are not ready by pickup. Please note there will be two separate invoices, one for your popcorn and one for your nuts. These invoices will include both your Show and Sell, (if any) and your Take Order products. They will be calculated minus the basic commission, an additional 1% if you attended the sales training, an additional 1% if you received the early signup bonus, and/or an additional 2% if you selected the no prize option. For units that achieved a bonus percentage and/or had online sales, a check will be mailed with the additional commission on February 1 st , 2020.
 
The payment of this invoice is due no later than December 16 th . Starting December 17 th any unpaid invoices will be recalculated to include a late payment fee of 3 %. This fee increases an additional 3% per each week that it is late.
 
Late orders will have a separate invoice that will be available when the product is picked up. Penalties for unpaid late orders begin December 30 th .  
 
The store will be closed December 24 th -31 st . The office will be open December 30 th and 31 st . If you have any questions on your invoice, please contact Rita, rita.batista@scouting.org  or Scott, scott.arnold@scouting.org

               
LATE ORDERS

You placed your take order on time and you are feeling good about your sale. Then on Monday you receive a call from Jonny’s parents about Aunt Sue who would like another Supreme Caramel Corn. So what do you do?
This is a common occurrence in the sale. Because of this we offer a late order phase for you. How does it work. Send an email of your needs to Scott Arnold, scott.arnold@scouting.org by December 2 nd .  We will be placing the final order December 3 rd . The office will be closed November 28 th and 29 th for the Thanksgiving Holidays.  We expect that the product will be delivered around December 10 th . If we have extra product after that date, we will help you to the best of our ability. However, please understand there will be no additional orders placed after the December 3 rd .
If you have questions check with your District Kernel, Executive or the Council support team. 


2019 Fall Product Sale Calendar

EXTENDED ON LINE SALES

While most of the sale has wrapped up, we are offering an extended Online sale for your Scouts, with a special deal. Starting November 1 st and ending December 31 st The Pennsylvania Dutch Council will be forwarding 100% of any online order proceeds to our units. That means that approximately 30% of the sales cost that the council would keep will be directly passed back to units. 
Example: November 2, a Scout has a customer order a $15.00 box of Summer Roasted 14 Pack Extra Butter on line. If a unit would receive 33%, for sales prior to November1, the unit would have received $5.00 on the sale. Now the unit would receive just under $10.00 on the sale.

 We are encouraging you to have your Scouts create an online site if they have not already done so. The Camp Masters company will still receive their cost of the product, approximately 30%. Camp Masters will also be offering a special Free Shipping Weekend for all online sales orders received during the period of November 15 th -17 th . Units online sales commissions will be mailed out the end of January, along with a list of the youth who had online sales after Nov. 1 and their amounts. We are suggesting that units credit the amount to their youth the Scout’s family to offset the increased membership fee.

Past Issues
Missed a “What’s Poppin’ or accidentally deleted it. Don’t worry. There is an archive of past issues on the Council Website. Just go to http://padutchbsa.org/popcorn/whats-poppin/ , look at the menu on the left hand side and click on “What’s Poppin’ ,” and pick the issue you are looking for.

Meet your 2019 Popcorn team
Conestoga River Kernel

Roger Harvey

717-468-5438



Harvest Kernel

Courtney Sweigart

717-682-3523

cje.landscape@gmail.com


Horse-Shoe Trail Kernel

Myrna Walker

717-644-5460



Conestoga River District Executive

John Oechslin

717-341-8983


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Harvest District Executi ve

Nick Barlieb

717-553-4203

Horse-Shoe Trail District
Executive

Nicole Welch

717-553-4202


Council Kernel

Joe Flaim

717-768-0961





Pennsylvania Dutch Council
Council Sale Support

Rita Batista

717-394-4063

rita.bastista@scouting.org    

Sale Staff Advisor

Scott Arnold

717-553-4208



Council Scout Executive

Matt Adams

717-394-4063