The Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago offers monthly Archeology Merit Badge classes. Several of our scouts are signed up for this merit badge class on Saturday, January 21, noon-2:00 p.m. Any scouts who are interested in joining them can register directly with the Institute by calling 773-702-9507. The cost is $15 per scout. Please call the Institute or e-mail oi-education@uchicago.edu for more information.

There are two spots remaining for the Nuclear Science Merit Badge outing to Fermilab on January 28. If your scout is interested, please see more information here: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/01/nuclear-science-merit-badge-outing-on-january-28/

Mark your calendars for an informational meeting (parents & scouts) to discuss our High Adventure options for the summer of 2013. We were successful in getting a reservation for a Philmont trek for the summer of 2013 (departing July 5 and returning on July 19). Scouts must be 14 years old or age 13 and have graduated from 8th grade to participate in a Philmont experience (our current 7th graders and older). There is also a possibility for a scuba experience at Florida Seabase. Those who are interested in either outing should attend an informational meeting on Monday, February 6, at 7:00 p.m. in the Social Hall at RPC.

Thank you to everyone who volunteered to donate food to our Night Ministry food prep. The main activity for this Thursday’s meeting will be making soup and PBJ sandwiches.

Here is the list of what everyone volunteered to bring:

Andersen – 200 bags
Bork – 5 bags mixed veggies, 5 loaves bread
Connelly – 1 Peanut butter
Culloden – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Lanken – 4 PB, 1 jelly
Lennon – 2 PB, 2 jelly
Gmitro – beef bouillon, 3 lbs ground beef.
Gryczan – 6 loaves
Jones – 2 loaves, 2 PB
Machina – 5 bags frozen veggies
Marcou – 3 lbs browned ground beef
McCoy – 5 loaves
Olszewski – 5 cans stewed tomatoes
Ozga – 1 loaf white bread, 1 wheat, 1 Peanut butter, 1 jelly
Quinn – 10 loaves
Ringbloom – 3 lbs browned ground beef
Salij – 1 PB

Please have your scout bring food to the meeting on Thursday. We will meet in the Social Hall. Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

The Troop Committee will meet on January 10 at 7:00 p.m. in the Westminster Room at RPC. All scout parents are welcome to attend.

Troop 24 is planning an outing to Fermi Lab in Batavia to complete the Nuclear Science merit badge on Saturday, January 28.

Scouts should be dropped off at the RPC at 11:00 a.m. We will return at approximately 3:00 p.m. The cost for this outing is $5. This registration is limited to the first 12 scouts to both register and pay. The scouts should wear their Class A uniforms. All materials are provided, but scouts may choose to look up the merit badge requirements on-line and review the workbook . Scouts should eat before being dropped off.

Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Please fill out the registration form here: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/01/nuclear-science-merit-badge/

Troop 24 is planning to prepare peanut butter & jelly sandwiches and vegetable beef soup to support the Night Ministry (see http://www.thenightministry.org/. During our regularly scheduled Troop meeting on Thursday, January 12, scouts will be making sandwiches and soup for 200 people for the Night Ministry delivery the next day. We need food donations to make this possible. Listed below are the total amounts we need. To sign up, please fill in the amount you are able to donate. (i.e., 3 – 20 oz. bags of frozen veggies). Scouts should bring the food to the meeting or drop it off in the RPC kitchen before the meeting. Thank you in advance for your generosity. You will receive a confirmation email. Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Fill out the form to volunteer: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/01/night-ministry-form/