Our Troop meeting this week will be at the Scout Cabin, beginning at 7:00 p.m. on FRIDAY.

Set-Up is Thursday 2/28 and Breakfast is Saturday 3/2

All scouts are on the schedule for either the Thursday Night Set-Up or the Saturday Breakfast. A copy of the schedule and the scout’s job description and general instructions were distributed to each scout. Here are the Pancake-Breakfast-Schedule, General Instructions, and Thursday Night Set-up. If you have any questions please contact Sue Jones, Pancake Chairman via email at sue_jones@designpac.com or cell phone 708-516-5741. If you do not receive an email reply within 1 day, please call the cell phone (some emails can get blocked by the server).

The Troop will have TWO separate campouts at Cantigny Park in Wheaton during the weekend of March 15-17.

• Friday night thru Saturday Morning, 3/15-16 – for scouts 2nd year or older who would like to camp and/or work on rank advancement requirements that can only be completed on a campout (acting as Patrol cook, starting a fire, setting up a stove, etc.).
• Saturday morning thru Sunday Morning , 3/16-17 –  for our new “Joiner” scouts. New Scouts will work on some of the skills and requirements needed for their first rank advancement.

Please be sure you sign up for the appropriate outing:

FRIDAY – Older scouts $12 (click here)
SATURDAY – New scouts $20 (click here)

The deadline for signing up for the outing is noon on Sunday, March 10.    Please fill out a form for each scout.

As always we need leaders, chaperones and drivers.  If you can help out in any of the following ways please use this Adult sign up form (click here) to indicate how/when you are available to help out.

Questions?  Contact Susan Lynch.

Pack 24 will hold its Blue & Gold banquet, and the crossover of the Webelos scouts into the Troop this Sunday, February 24. We need 12 scouts to assist with the crossover. The event will be held at the same place as it has been for several years: Park Place banquet facility, 6240 Joliet Road in Countryside. Scouts who are able to assist, please sign up here:
http://troop24riverside.com/2013/02/crossover-sign-up-form/

Thursday night’s Scout Meeting is the deadline for turning in the Pancake Breakfast ticket money. Each Scout is expected to turn in the full payment of $75. Checks should be made out to Riverside Troop 24. At this meeting, each scout will receive a copy of the work schedule as well as a set of instructions. Parents, please be sure that your scout has reviewed these instructions prior to the breakfast day. Any scout that has a conflict with their scheduled time is responsible to find another scout to switch with and then to inform Sue Jones of the change. Thank you for your support of this important fundraiser!

TICKET SALES — All Boy Scouts are required to sell their entire packet of tickets and to turn in their $75 by Thursday, February 21. Sue Jones, Pancake Breakfast Chairman, will be at the meeting tomorrow night to collect scouts’ envelopes with their payment and then again next Thursday as well. The envelope with payment may also be dropped off at 150 Southcote (push envelope all the way into the mailbox).

BREAKFAST WORK SCHEDULE — Each Scout is also required to work at either the set-up night (Thursday, February 28) or the Breakfast Day (March 2). If your scout has a conflict on one of these dates, please email Sue Jones at Sue_Jones@DesignPac.com as soon as possible. The schedule will be finalized by 2/17 so any emails regarding conflicts must be sent by 2/16.

THANK YOU ALL for your support of our troop’s main fundraiser!