State Youth Games

Is coming up! This Queens birthday weekend, the MASH army is once again invading Lardner Park. It’s gong to be our fifth year there, from our beginning as AJAX, to our current outfit name, MASH, and I hope our best yet. Well, maybe not out best points wise, but our best in other ways. The first year was miserable, I’ll pay that. We didn’t know what we were doing, we arrived in the dark and wet to find campsite on a slant and did our best to set up. We endured through that year, and came back better prepared. For year 2 we built a campsite almost bright enough at night to be seen from the highway (I’m not kidding) and we had an amazing year, with a big team, high scores and a top five (4th) finish. Year 3 and 4 we tried slightly different things – bigger numbers, more mixed sports allocations, more focus on teams and community than winning individual sports. And it’s all been good. This year, we’re looking at something new. Year 2 of MASH will see us take in a combined group of 6 churches, and once again, community is the focus. A team of us will be going down two days in advance to prepare the campsite, setting up an army outpost and taking a tilt at the prestigious ‘Spinning Cheese’ award, bringing along a team of parents and helpers as well.. Re-forming into two units, MASH Red and MASH Blue, we’re giving p the pursuit of outright points, and aiming to be a huge presence in the SYG community.

The General, and Colonels and Major that support are going to have their work cut out for them, but this year should be a real blast. If you’re not already going, talk to me – we always are happy to take on more conscripts