We begin our module on Citizenship this week and through December.  Friday is Riverside Holiday Stroll and we still need scouts and adults to help out at the S’mores Tent at Riverside Garage.  Board of Review this week if you signed up.

Please return all tents from Waterfall Glen Campout.

• BRING SCOUT BOOK TO ALL MEETINGS
• MEETING OPENING 7:00
  •  ZULU are responsible for meeting set-up, FLAGS, and clean up. Report at 6:45 in Full Uniform.
• SKILL INSTRUCTION
  • Citizenship:  Please read pp 48-71 of the Scout Handbook.  See Rank Advancement Requirements under Citizenship.
  • All Scouts working toward First Class will select an Environmental Issue affecting our community to research and deliver a 5 minute presentation on in the coming weeks for First Class Req. 9b.
• QUARTERMASTERS: Trailer and equipment clean-up and inventory.
• MERIT BADGE: [First Class & Above]
  • Merit Badge Counselor will be begin working on Citizenship in the Nation merit badge next week.
• TROOP ACTIVITY: Patrol competition Tug of War.
• CYBER CHIP:
  • Scout Rank and Star Rank need to acquire the Cyber Chip for your age. Go to http://www.netsmartz.org/scouting to review the requirements.  Once you have completed the Read, Write and Watch requirements, please sign up on the Troop 24 web site to schedule a meeting to complete the Teach and Talk requirements.  We have the Cards.  The chip expires after one year, see Scoutmaster Flaherty to “Recharge” or renew the Chip.

Please join us as we celebrate an end to the school year and the beginning of the holiday break at Sky Zone Trampoline Park on Friday December 15th.  

Our Scouts will enjoy 2 hours of jump time followed by a slice of hot pizza, a cold drink, and chips! Additional details are as follows:

• • In order to participate ALL Scouts MUST complete and submit a waiver. Anyone without a waiver will NOT be able to jump. 
  • Parents are asked to provide transportation for their Scouts to and from the event.
  • Scouts must be at Sky Zone (325 W Lake St A, Elmhurst, IL 60126) by 5:30pm to get checked in and get changed into their special jump socks.
  • Scouts will be jumping from 6pm-8pm and will round out the night with a slice of hot pizza, an ice cold drink and chips.
  • Pick up will be at 8:15 p.m.
  • The cost per scout is $25
  • We also need adults to attend as chaperones. If you are willing to supervise scouts between games and serve pizza, please sign up on the Chaperone Form.

This outing is limited to 20 scouts so sign up early!

Registration Deadline is December 10th, 2017. 

To register your scout for this event, please click HERE.

When registering your Scout, please remember to complete and submit the Sky Zone WAIVER. Scouts without a waiver on file will NOT be able to jump. Please use the “Myself and Child” waiver.

To register as a chaperone for this event, please click HERE.

Please check your Friday schedule and our updated Holiday Stroll Form to see which shifts still need scout and adult volunteers. Scouts will receive service hours for their time, since we will collect donations for the Riverside Presbyterian Church mission ministries. Volunteers always have a good time at the s’mores booth and campfire at Riverside’s Holiday Stroll.

Wishing you a harvest of blessings, good health and good times. We hope you enjoy a Thanksgiving feast in the company of family and friends.

Of course there will be no troop meeting this week. But don’t forget to look through our recent messages, and sign up for the Holiday Stroll and Star Wars movie. And if you haven’t done so yet, we really need you to pay your dues!!

Next week, we will hold Boards of Review, so please sign up for a Scoutmaster Conference or Board of Review if you are ready.

Patrol leader Council will meet next Tuesday, November 28 at 6pm at Riverside Presbyterian Church.

Eagle Scout Elijah Ourth embodies the true spirit of Scouting in all that he does.  He started as a Pack 24 Cub Scout camping at the Scout Cabin and ultimately joined his fellow Troop 24 Boy Scout friends on epic high adventure outings to explore the great outdoors.  But Elijah wanted more, he spent his senior year of high school as an exchange student in Sweden and became a member of the Swedish Scouting program.  Elijah did a solo kayak trek down the length of the Kankakee River as a high school student.  Now Elijah looks to tackle a 300 km dog sled trip at the Arctic Circle through Sweden and Norway, but he needs the help of his Troop 24 family.  To enter the race, Elijah needs to win a contest by gathering as many votes as he can.  Please go to http://polar.fjallraven.com/contestant/?id=213 to vote for Elijah.  Watch his video and you will see a few photographs of his Troop 24 High Adventure trips. If you can share or post something on your own Facebook page or e-mail the link to your friends, that would be great too!

Tickets for our private showing of Star Wars: The Last Jedi may now be purchased for Troop 24 scouts and leaders AND their family members. We hope you can join Troop 24 for a matinee showing of the newest Star Wars episode on Saturday, December 16 at 9:45am at the North Riverside Mall Classic Cinemas theatre. Doors open at 9:15am.

This is a joint activity with Pack 24 Cub Scouts. Troop leaders will be present for check in and throughout the event, so Boy Scouts can attend without their parent. We ask that siblings attend with a parent please.

The cost is $7 per person. Please sign up and pay here.

It would be great to have a few more scouts and leaders helping with Riverside’s annual 1,000 Trees Planting Project. On Saturday, November 18 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. we meet at the Riverside Town Hall Second Floor Auditorium for a training. We will then head out together to plant previously collected tree seeds along the Des Plaines River. When we are done, we’ll go to the Scout Cabin to return tools and enjoy soup, chili and hot cocoa. This reforestation effort will be fun, rewarding and easy, and this project will earn scouts conservation service hours needed for rank advancement. Participants should wear warm clothes, gloves, boots and a hat, or whatever outerwear is appropriate for the day’s weather. Scouts do not need to commit to the entire time period to participate.

Scouts sign up here

Leaders/Adults sign up here

Keep reading below for another important reminder…

If you have not yet paid 2018 scout dues, this is a friendly reminder that it is time to make your payment of $60 per scout.

If you can’t remember if you paid yet, check our Upcoming Events page.

Here is the link to make your online payment:

Scout Dues Form

It’s not too late to make a donation to our troop to help cover the BSA membership fee for our leaders who volunteer so much of their time. Thank you for your support of Troop 24!

Donations for Adult Membership Fees