Troop 24 is planning an overnight camping outing to Cantigny Park in Winfield on Friday, October 5. Scouts will camp Friday night and attend a Civil War re-enactment on Saturday. Scouts should be dropped off at RPC on Friday afternoon at 5:00 p.m. Scouts will return to RPC on Saturday afternoon. The cost for this outing is $15. The deadline for signing up for the outing is Wednesday, October 3. Scouts should wear their Class A uniforms to travel. Please fill out a form for each scout. We also need adult leaders and drivers for this event.

Scouts sign up here: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/09/cantigny-civil-war-re-enactment/
Leaders/drivers sign up here: http://troop24riverside.com/2012/09/cantigny-civil-war-re-enactment-adult-sign-up/

Contact Dawn Gmitro with questions.

Several tents, which were sent home with scouts for drying (after Tesomas & after the Scout Cabin camp-out) have not yet been returned. We will need all our tents for the Camp Inferno outing on September 28-30. If you still have a tent, please return it at the meeting on Thursday.

Our first outing in October (on October 5-6) will be a Friday night camp-out at Cantigny, followed by a visit to the Civil War encampment and reenactment on Saturday. Watch your e-mail for the sign-up. In preparation for that outing, we will have a presentation at the Troop meeting on Thursday, September 20, by Mr. Colin Fagan, who is a reenactor, and a member of the 8th Illinois Cavalry, one of the most well-known Illinois regiments in the Civil War. Parents are welcome at the presentation, which will be held in the Social Hall at RPC. Please arrive on time so we can begin promptly at 7:00 p.m.

A Boy Scout Coin Collecting Merit Badge Program will be held at the West Suburban Coin & Collectibles Expo in Countryside. The program is scheduled for Sunday, November 11, beginning at 10:00 am. The show is located at Park Place of Countryside, 6200 Joliet Rd., with the Merit Badge program held next door at 6240 Joliet Rd. All interested Boy Scouts are invited to attend.

Boy Scouts will earn the requirements for the Coin Collecting Merit Badge and can complete them at the show. Each Scout will receive a Coin Collecting Merit Badge Folder as well as additional educational material.

To reserve a space, please RSVP to Ken Wasmer at 630-399-9060 or at kevin@elmhurstcoinsandcollectibles.com.

Vertical Endeavors Indoor Rock Climbing facility will be hosting nine Climbing Merit Badge Days:

* Saturday, September 22, 2012
* Saturday, October 13, 2012
* Saturday, November 17, 2012
* Saturday, December 8, 2012
* Saturday, January 12, 2013
* Saturday, February 9, 2013
* Saturday, March 16, 2013
* Saturday, April 13, 2013
* Saturday, May 11, 2013

The program runs from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Scouts will need to register in advance. Payment is due at the time of registration, and the cost is $39.99 per scout. Our minimum number of participants to run the program is six, and the maximum is thirty.

Climbing Merit Badge Day is open to Scouts in the Chicago area who are eligible for the Climbing Merit Badge regardless of Troop affiliation. It is recommended that Scouts be at least 12 years of age and have earned the First Aid Merit Badge.

Contact Anita Johnson for additional information
anita@verticalendeavors.com or www.verticalendeavors.com

Vertical Endeavors
28141 Diehl Road
Warrenville, IL 60555
630/836-0122

Scouts who have not yet attained 1st Class rank are reminded to bring their books to the Troop meeting on Thursday. We need to update books with requirements completed at summer camp.

RPC invites all scout families to a Italian Dinner on September 30, with both silent and live auctions. The cost is up to you, as a “free will” donation will be taken. Reservations are required so the appropriate amount of food is prepared. RSVP to Cindy Gustafson at c.gustafson@sbcglobal.net or to the church office (447-1520 or rpcoffice@sbcglobal.net).

Dinner will be served at 5:00 p.m., with the live auction beginning at 6:00 p.m. Bids open for the silent auction at 4:00 p.m.

Print the invitation.

A uniform shirt was left at the scout cabin (Adult S, no rank badge, Arrow of Light badge pinned on). Another scout is missing a shirt, but a different size. We suspect that a scout (probably a 6th grader) took the wrong shirt home. Please, if your scout attended the meeting last Friday, check his shirt to be sure he has the correct one.

Parents: Please label scout clothing and equipment. We had a couple of boys whose shoes went home on the wrong feet last year (and one pair was never returned). The uniforms all look the same. The only way to tell them apart is by labeling them.

Please contact Nancy Hopkins at nmhopkins1@comcast.net if you find that your scout has the wrong shirt.