EpiscoPals Annual Picnic

The EpiscoPals held their Annual Summer Picnic on Saturday, July 15th , at the home of Mark & Jill Tillotson. There was great food, drinks, desserts, and friends – but highlighting the event was the First Annual Ray Allen Bean Bag Toss Tournament. Those who attended that afternoon anxiously awaited picking up those bags filled with beans and tossing them some 25 feet away into a small hole inside a wooden box. WHAT EXCITEMENT! WHAT COURAGE! WHAT A MESS!

Seven teams were formed that day to compete for the grand prize of an Armetta’s Gift Certificate, some bragging rights and an original poster of “Bill” before he became “Waffles by William.” The competition was fierce – sometimes paring husband versus wife and 8am parishioners vs. the 10:15am crowd. As the first round ended, those bean bags got very heavy for some of the participants as we watched many start rolling them across the lawn towards the box. By-standers cheered-on their favorites to win the competition. Some people even began performing the “wave.” But in the end, Karl Burkhardt & Sue Schaffner took home the Grand Prize with a victory in the final round.

As the winners walked-away, some people heard them say “I’m going to Disney World.”