The Scout Work schedule is now posted online,along with links to download the Job Packets covering the information each scout should know before they come to the Pancake Breakfast.

Please print out the information and review it BEFORE coming to work your shift. Please plan to arrive 10 minutes before the start of your shift. http://troop24pancakes.azurewebsites.net/Work

If for any reason you cannot work the shift that you have been assigned, it is your responsibility to trade time slots with another scout, or to find someone to work the shift for you.

Reminder: There is no regular Troop meeting this Thursday, March 3, due to set-up for the Pancake Breakfast. Scouts assigned to set-up for the breakfast should report to the Social Hall. Please be there by 7:00.

The Troop will have TWO separate campouts at Bullfrog Lake in Willow Springs during the weekend of March 18-20.

• Friday night thru Saturday Morning, 3/18-19 – 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 , 3/19-20 –  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 $15 (register here)
SATURDAY – New scouts $25 (register here)

The deadline for signing up for the outing is noon on Saturday, March 12.    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 (register here) to indicate how/when you are available to help out.

Questions?  Contact Susan Lynch.

Please turn in your pancake ticket money before the event, if possible. Scouts can bring the money to the Troop meeting tonight. All scouts are required to sell 15 tickets, or to purchase the tickets and give them to friends, family, neighbors or teachers. Thanks for your support of Troop 24.

We are seeking large sheets of cardboard for the Pancake Breakfast. We cover the floor of the RPC kitchen with cardboard so the floor will not be slick if pancake batter is spilled, and to make clean-up easier. Appliance boxes, or any other large boxes, are ideal. We need them by Thursday, March 3, when we do the set-up for the breakfast. It would help if you could let our Pancake chairs know in advance if you have some. Contact Rich Hosek at pancakes@troop24riverside.com.

Dear Scouts & Parents,

The Pancake Breakfast, our largest Troop fundraiser, is on Saturday, March 5. This event, which has been held at RPC for over 60 years, provides most of the funds needed for troop equipment and other expenses. All scouts are required to work a shift–either at the breakfast or during set-up or clean-up. Download the work schedule: 2016 Pancake Scout Work Schedule.

If you have an unavoidable conflict, please contact Tom Hartwig at thartwig@olparks.com BEFORE Friday, February 26, and he will assist in arranging a trade to a different timeslot. After Friday, if you cannot work the time you are assigned, it is your responsibility to find another scout to trade. Please help us make this the best pancake breakfast ever! You can turn in Pancake ticket money at the Troop meeting on Thursday.

The Troop will conduct the annual Crossover Ceremony at Pack 24’s Blue and Gold Banquet on February 28, at 3:30 p.m. at the Riverside Golf Club, 2520 Des Plaines, in North Riverside. Pizza dinner will be provided after the crossover, and you should be home by 7:00 p.m. Scouts are needed to participate and welcome the new Scouts into the Pack. Please register here to participate: http://troop24riverside.com/2016/02/crossover-form-2016/