JROTC Johnny Appleseed Booth

Name: JROTC Johnny Appleseed Booth
Start: 2025-09-19T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-22T13:00:00-04:00
Location: Johnny Appleseed Festival

Schedule

Fri, 19 Sep, 2025 at 12:00 pm to Mon, 22 Sep, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Johnny Appleseed Festival | Fort Wayne, IN

Johnny Appleseed is fast approaching next weekend. We still really, really, really, need volunteers for Sat. and Sunday afternoons. We are especially in desperate need of male volunteers for our afternoon shifts. It takes a lot of manpower to run our booth, especially when we get busy. Please consider signing up for one or both of these afternoons. The money we raise helps pay for the kids' activities. Come out and help so we can keep parent's costs down.
Sign Up Here for Johnny Appleseed:
https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E044CA4A92EA2F85-57783762-2025
Friday Set-Up Volunteers- Dress comfortably, including shoes! You will most likely be getting dirty/dusty, It will be hot, so make sure you bring water/drinks to stay hydrated. I recommend bringing/wearing work gloves. You will be able to park near the ball fields. (This parking will be unavailable Sat. & Sun.) If you arrive before Noon, you will most likely see a line of cars/trucks/trailers in line to pull into the park. Once they pull in you should be able to get to the parking. You may also park at CLHS and use the walking path to get to Johnny Appleseed Park. An image of this year's pamphlet is attached to this email, if you enlarge it we will be located near food booth number 6. If you have any difficulty finding our location feel free to text 254-268-2487 and we will send out a search party!
Friday Onion Peeling/Sandwich Making- Bring a chair! Bring a paring knife! It will still be toasty, so please bring something to drink with you. You will be able to park near the ball fields near the Parnell/Harry Balls entrance to the park. You may also park at CLHS and use the walking path to get to Johnny Appleseed Park. An image of this year's pamphlet is attached to this email, if you enlarge it we will be located near food booth number 6. If you have any difficulty finding our location feel free to text 254-368-2487 and we will send out a search party!
Sat. and Sunday Morning/Afternoon Shifts- It will be HOT! Please start hydrating a couple of days prior to the event. We will provide water/Gatorade along with chips and sandwiches. No parking will be available in the park. Attached to this email is the parking map. It details where the paid vs. free parking is located. The shuttles that run from CLHS and PFW do NOT start till 1 hour before the festival starting time and stop 1 hour after the end time of the festival each day. (Festival hours for Sat. are 10 am- 6 pm, & Sun. are 10 am - 5 pm.) Our booth is food booth number 6. Attached to this email is an image of this year's pamphlet, booth locations are marked on the pamphlet. Our booth is officially called Kaptain Kadet. If you have any difficulty finding our location feel free to text 254-368-2487 and we will send out a search party!
Women: Wear comfortable shoes, you will be on your feet a lot! Your shoes will get dirty/dusty. Wear comfortable cool clothes, that you can pull a dress over (we supply the dress and apron). You will be expected to wear a hat, which is supplied, keep this in mind when doing your hair. We will be wearing plastic gloves when dealing with food.
Men: Wear long pants. These will most likely get dirty! Wear a cool shirt that can be covered by a period-appropriate shirt that will be supplied. You will be expected to wear a hat that will also be supplied. Most importantly you need to wear work boots, preferably steel-toed boots if you have them. You will be working around fires and
tennis shoes tend to melt. You will be supplied with heat-resistant gloves. Please, please, please hydrate! It can be toasty around the fires!
*We are not responsible for your personal belongings. We will have a place for you to put your belongings, but do so at your own risk*
Monday Clean-Up- We will meet at the Pole Barn at Zollner Stadium (where the buses are parked). Please wear clothes you don't mind getting dirty or wet. I recommend bringing work gloves. It will still be hot so please make sure you bring water/drinks to stay hydrated!
Appleseed helps us do so much for the JROTC Cadets and the Battalion as a whole! It is really important that we all come together and make this our Best Johnny Appleseed Festival yet! We really appreciate all the great parent support we have already received this year. Here's to an absolutely awesome festival!