NCS New Canaan, NCS Fairfield, NCS Norwalk, NCS New Haven and NCS Hartford joined forces for the First Annual NCS CT Pig Roast on September 19.
Over 100 brudders and sons "showed up" at Jackson Cove Park in Oxford CT today for a full afternoon of sun, fun and great food. This was a powerful example of the "community" of NCS--we even had some NY and NJ brudders make the trip.
The day started at Noon with games (horseshoes, corn hole, football, frisbee), water sports (tubing, jet skis, wake-boarding) and hot dogs with some seriously delicious chili. As the hot dogs were just starting to be served, Alberto the cigar roller showed up (courtesy of NCS Norwalk) to provide fresh post-lunch stogies.
At about 2:30 pm, the Young Life team kicked into gear with some Chapter v. Chapter competition. There were four events orchestrated by two strange-looking hillbillies in the back of a pickup truck (this was Oxford, CT after all---did any one honestly know there was an Oxford CT before today??) The games began with an activity that involved putting something in your mouth and spitting it as far as you can. Hal Rosser (that's right, the big deal private equity guy on the NCS national board) spit the farthest for an NCS New Canaan victory. This was followed by the Shovel Race, Bat Spinning and Inner Tube Wrestling. Bottom line--NCS New Canaan was the champion with two wins. Young Life guys--you're GREAT!!
As the last Inner Tube Wrestler went down, the 110 lb pig came out. Despite the serious doubts of our brudders in NCS Winston Salem who didn't think a bunch of Yankees could pull of a pig roast, a fabulous pig feast (with plenty of cracklin!) was followed by an ice cream sundae station (courtesy of NCS New Haven) and then a very encouraging and humble talk by former CT Governor John Rowland.
Special thanks go to Armand Amendola (Leader of NCS New Haven) for having the vision of an all-CT father-son event and then seeing it through. But it really was a joint effort of a planning team consisting of Armand (NCS New Haven), Dave Swanson and Wiley Mullins (NCS Fairfield), Luke Layow and Mike Shoaf (NCS Hartford), Tom Robidoux and Art Crisci (NCS Norwalk), Bill Jolly (NCS CT Ambassador) and me (NCS New Canaan). Thanks to those brudders and all the volunteers who "showed up" today to help.
Blessings.
Paul Michalski