Navigating Thursday’s Troop Meeting

We will complete our Orienteering theme, with an exciting opportunity to hear about Orienteering as a sport from a guest speaker.

If you have your own compass, please bring it!

BRING SCOUT BOOK TO ALL MEETINGS

MEETING OPENING 7:00

NUCLEAR OCTOPI is responsible for meeting set-up, FLAGS, and clean up. Report at 6:45 in Full Uniform.

SKILLS INSTRUCTION
Navigation: Scout Handbook Section 11 pp 327-357. See Rank Advancement Requirements under Navigation.
Instructors & Guides will be responsible for leading and teaching navigation.

REMINDER: sign up for the Dec. 7th s’mores fire-pit at the Riverside Stroll and the Dec. 14th Laser Tag party!

“Orienteering is a group of sports that requires navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a specially prepared orienteering map, which they use to find control points. Originally a training exercise in land navigation for military officers, orienteering has developed many variations. Among these, the oldest and the most popular is foot orienteering.”

Wishing you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving!

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 Laser Tag Outing. 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 a Board of Review if you are ready.

Patrol leader Council will meet next Monday, November 26 at 6pm at Riverside Presbyterian Church.

It is time to renew your BSA scout membership. This covers the fees our troop must pay per member to the BSA National and Council Offices. The cost for 2019 is $60 per scout. Please pay online as soon as possible.

Scout Dues Form

In the past Troop 24 has subsidized the cost of BSA dues for our adult volunteer leaders. A fee is required for each member, including our Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmasters and Troop Committee Members. This is a considerable cost to the troop. Please consider making a donation to our troop, so we can continue to subsidize our leaders who volunteer so much of their time. Thank you for your support of Troop 24!

Donations for Adult Membership Fees

Scouts & adults are needed for our annual s’mores tent at Riverside’s Holiday Stroll Friday, December 7. We provide ingredients and a campfire to roast marshmallows and make s’mores. We do not charge for the s’mores, but collect a free-will offering that will go to the Riverside Presbyterian Church mission ministries. Because the donations collected will go to help those in need, service hours will be given. We will be located at Riverside Garage, always a popular location due to their train set-up. One-hour shifts are available starting at 5:00 p.m., and we also need a few people for set-up (4:00) and take-down (9:00). We need two adults and three or four scouts per shift. Our leaders for this event are Jim Fedorski and Noretta Griffin. Questions should be directed to jim.fedorski@comcast.net

Please sign up here: Holiday Stroll Form

It’s cold outside but our holiday party will be HOT HOT HOT!!!

Join us as we celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of the holiday break at  Laser X  on Friday December 14th.  

Scouts will enjoy 2 games of laser tag, pizza & soda, and a $10 game card.

SCOUT Registration HERE

Additional details are as follows:

• • Registration deadline is Dec. 6th, 2018.
  • Parents are asked to provide transportation for their Scouts to and from the event.
  • Scouts must be at Laser X (1455 W Lake St. in Addison, IL) by 6:45pm to get checked in.
  • Scouts will be able to play 2 games of Laser Tag and video games from 7pm-8:30pm and will round out the night with a slice of hot pizza and an ice cold drink.
  • Pick up will be at 9:00 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.

If you have any questions please email Kimber.Day@gmail.com

Yours in Scouting,

Kimber & Cindy

How can spending a few hours planting acorns in the woods change your life? Come to this weekend’s troop service project and find out for yourself. Troop 24 will participate in Riverside’s annual 1,000 Trees Planting Project – Saturday, November 17 from 10:00 a.m. – about 4:00 p.m. Those who have participated in past years have learned about nature, history and community, and those who have met the project’s founder, Tom Sisulak, can say that they are a better person because they know him. Volunteers should meet at the Riverside Scout Cabin for an information session on how to plant tree seeds. Following the training, volunteers are divided into teams to plant previously collected tree seeds in the village’s natural areas along the Des Plaines River. When the teams are done, they can report to the Scout Cabin to return their tools and enjoy soup, chili and hot cocoa by the warm indoor fireplace. 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. Please encourage your family to attend also!

Read more about the 1,000 Trees service opportunity in this Illinois Farm Bureau article.

Scouts/Youth sign up here

Leaders/Adults sign up here

In place of our usual Thursday troop meeting, there will be a Court of Honor on November 15th, starting at 7:00 p.m. in the RPC Social Hall. Scouts who wish to participate as color guard, candle lighters, etc. should arrive at 6:45 p.m.

In the Boy Scouts of America a court of honor is a troop activity where scouts and their families come together to get their awards, and have a good time together. It is important for the scout’s family members to be there for their scouts receiving his rank advancement, merit badges, and other awards.

Troop 24 holds two Courts of Honor each year–one in the fall and one in the spring. We expect that all scouts participate in these events, unless there is an unavoidable conflict. Scouts should dress in full uniform, including their scarf and merit badge sash (if they have one). Please no jeans or athletic apparel.

We also ask that each scout have at least one parent or grandparent present. Parents as well as scouts come forward when rank advancements are announced.

We need refreshments for the reception after the ceremony. Noretta Griffin will be coordinating this, but we need volunteers to help set up and clean up. If you can volunteer or bring food, please e-mail Noretta at jasonandcorky@comcast.net.