A Coin Collecting Merit Badge Program will be held at the West Suburban Coin & Collectibles Expo in Countryside. The program is scheduled for Sunday, November 13, beginning at 10:00 a.m. The show is located at Park Place Banquet Hall, 6200 Joliet Rd, Countryside. To reserve space, please RSVP to Kevin Wasmer at 630-399-9060 or kwasmer@comcast.net.

Additional photos have been added to the Camp Mach 2011 Photo Album. View Camp Mach at:

http://troop24riverside.com/troop-scrapbook/

At last week’s Troop meeting, the annual Popcorn Fundraiser order forms were distributed to the Scouts. Here are a few things regarding the sale:

There are two ways to sell Popcorn

1. Face-to-Face — collect monies up front. All checks are made payable to Troop 24. Please refer to the handout for guidelines when selling door-to-door.
2. On-line — Please register your scout or have them set up an account on-line at http://scouts.trails-end.com. It is very easy to sell online to out-of-town relatives and friends. The scout can create a caricature of himself that is sent along with a scripted message and attaches a link directly to the Trail’s End website. All online sales are mailed directly to the purchaser but are credited to your scout.

• Orders and full payment are due by Thursday, October 27.
• Popcorn will be ready for pick-up on November 19 or 20, the weekend before Thanksgiving.
• All of the popcorn profit (30% of the sales price) is allocated to the scout in the form of a credit that can be used for scouting activities, such as summer camp.

Prizes — Starting at $250 in sales, scouts have their choice of Amazon or Walmart gift cards. With $600 in sales, in addition to the gift card and Zyclone prize, the Des Plaines Valley Council will invite the scouts to an Enchanted Castle pizza party in January. In addition, the Council will also award two free tickets to a Chicago Wolves Hockey Saturday evening game in January to scouts selling a minimum of $1,500.

If your scout did not attend the last Troop meeting, is missing their forms, or has any questions, please contact our Popcorn Kernel, Anne Kodama, at amkodama@sbcglobal.net.

All scouts who are interested in working on the American Heritage Merit Badge are invited to meet in the Westminster Room at RPC (smaller room in the lower level) at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 22. Scouts should bring the American Heritage worksheet, which can be found here: http://meritbadge.org/wiki/images/8/8f/American_Heritage.pdf and a copy of the Merit Badge book, if they have one. Additional meetings will be scheduled for Thursdays at 6:30.

Parents who did not attend the parent meeting last Thursday: please come up to the gym on Thursday when you drop off or pick up your scout. We have paperwork that needs to be filled out for your scout’s participation this year (permission slip, etc.). Parents who took home forms to complete, please try to return them on Thursday. Dues payment of $30 for the year can be made by check made out to Troop 24, or online at https://www.wepay.com/tickets/view/75330.

Families who need to pick up the paperwork are:
Buffo
Cervanka
Corrigan
Culloden
Gryczan
Jantze
Lennon
Olszewski
Pipal
Schliep
Williams
Zalewski
Zuschlag

We have a number of tents out being dried from last weekend’s bike outing and/or the Scout Cabin camp-out. Please return the tents on Thursday, as scouts will need them for the Camporall this weekend.

Troop 24 is planning a day outing to Cantigny to attend a Civil War reenactment on Saturday October 1, 2011. Scouts should be dropped off at RPC at 9:00 a.m. Each person should bring a sack lunch and water bottle. Scouts will return by late afternoon. There is NO COST for this outing. Extra adults are welcome to attend, and drivers will be needed.

The deadline for signing up for the outing is Wednesday, September 28. Please fill out a form for each scout. Leaders/adults should also register.

Scouts should wear their Class A uniforms (free admission to Cantigny with uniforms).

Scouts who want to work on the following requirements should meet Asst. Scoutmaster Bruce Robertson outside of RPC at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow. Scouts should bring pictures of 10 native animals (Second Class 6) and/or 10 native plants (First Class 6).

Second Class 6 – Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community

First Class 6 – Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.

According to our tracking system…
Scouts needing 2nd Class requirement 6 are:
Max B.
George C.
Robert D.
Aidan F.
Chris M.
Jack P.
Spencer W.

Scouts needing 1st Class requirement 6 are:
Dima A.
Trevor B.
Tim B.
Max B.
Robert D.
George C.
Joey C.
Andrew C.
Dan D.
Aidan F.
Will F.
Dylan G.
Jackson H.
Erik H.
Joey K.
Killian K.
Ryan K.
Billy K.
Derek J.
Jose L.
Ben L.
Jack L.
Michael L.
Chris M.
Francisco M.
Skye O.
Jack P.
Glen Q.
Erik R.
Charlie R.
David S.
Spencer W.
Sam Z.

The Village of Riverside and the Olmsted Society invites you to celebrate Illinois’ “It’s Our River Day” & help beautify Riverside by removing buckthorn between the sidewalk & the Des Plaines River along Riverside Road on Saturday, September 17, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. until noon. Look for the Riverside Public Works dump truck on Riverside Road near Olmsted Road. Come for an hour or three, whatever your schedule allows. Supervised children are welcome. Service hour credits are available. Bring your favorite work gloves & a water bottle. All other supplies & snacks will be provided.