Having concluded our Sports theme with blanketball, skills circuits, water polo, and informative overviews of wrestling and soccer, we’ll be starting our last theme of the Fall term – camp-craft.

This week, we’ll start with an overview of tents, including the particular tents used by the Troop.  This will prepare us in the off-season for tent-camping coming soon in March.

We’ll also be visited by the Pack 24 and 120 Webelos II Crossovers, so be prepared!  Let’s show them why Troop 24 Scouting is fun!

Finally, we’ll continue to review our next-rank requirements this week and throughout February.

So, BRING YOUR HANDBOOKS!

ITEMS OF NOTE

-Sell those pancake breakfast tickets! If you didn’t have a chance to pick up your tickets, they have been mailed to your home address.

-Scout Sunday at RPC is February 2nd!  Click here for details.

-Michael Anthony’s Troop 24 Family Dinner on February 9th, 5:00-8:00.  Details forthcoming.

-To register for the annual [February] Winter Tesomas outing, click here.

-Still spots available for the July Isle Royale high adventure back-packing trek [14 and older/First Class and above].  Click here for information.

Riverside Presbyterian Church, our charter organization, invites you to attend RPC on Scout Sunday, February 2. RPC’s Service of Worship begins at 10:00 a.m. with Coffee Fellowship to follow in the Social Hall. Please wear your Class A uniform and encourage family members to wear their uniform as well (Girl Scouts, Venturing, etc.).

The Scout Sunday tradition was started to make people in houses of worship aware of Scouting, and to allow Scouts to live out their “Duty to God” pledged each week. The Scout Law says that a “Scout is Reverent” and Scouts promise to do their “Duty of God” in the Scout Oath.

Scout families who would like to provide treats for the coffee hour after the service are invited to drop them off in the Social Hall kitchen of the church any time between 9:00 and 10:45 a.m. Thanks for your contribution & hope to see you there!

If you can’t join us at RPC, wear your uniform proudly to whatever house of worship you attend to show the community what we mean when we say “a Scout is Reverent.”

This week, we’ll continue our Sports & Athletics theme in the pool.

Bring a suit, towel, flip-flops, and goggles [if you have a pair]!

The Pancake breakfast is our biggest fundraiser of the year and we need your help to make it a success!

As always, ALL Scouts are responsible for selling 15 tickets at $5 each for a total of $75.

Scouts should pick up their ticket packets at either of the next two Thursday meetings, 1/16 or 1/23.

Ticket money is due 2/13. You may bring your ticket money to a Thursday meeting or drop it off at Ms. Henderson’s house. Her address may be found inside your ticket packet.

*If you have not sold all of your tickets by 2/13, you can buy them yourself, then resell up until the date of the Pancake Breakfast, Saturday March 7, but you are responsible for the full value of the tickets you are issued.

***Please Note – Your ticket packet will contain your BSA ID#. You will need your BSA ID# to sign up for your Pancake Breakfast job once the signup website is ready. Please save this information in a safe place!

This week, we’ll continue our Sports & Athletics theme.

Since we’re missing snow cover for outdoor Broomball, and it may be a messy evening, we’ll enjoy indoor activities.

We’ll first have a discussion of athletics and teamwork, and how they make a positive impact on your lives.  We invite all Scouts who play a sport either in school or in a league to participate.

We’ll conclude with a skills/dexterity workshop with friendly competition in basketball, soccer, and dodge ball skills.

Finally, we’ll take some time to set/review our next-rank goals so we continue to make progress for the Spring Court of Honor.

So, BRING YOUR HANDBOOKS!

ITEMS OF NOTE

To join the Klondike Derby team for the 2020 “Pathway to Adventure” Derby, and attempt to re-claim the trophy, sign up here.

To volunteer to assist the running of the 2020 Pack 24 Pinewood Derby on January 25th, sign up here.

To register for the annual [February] Winter Tesomas outing, click here.

It’s back, this time with more options and better pricing!!

We will leave Friday afternoon, have dinner on the road and drive straight to Tesomas this year, participating in the winter camp offering and adding on an extra day to make it a three day weekend, returning on Monday afternoon.

Program options for campers are Downhill Skiing, Snowboarding, Tubing & Tenderfoot Rank Advancement,  and pricing ranges from $80-$125 for the entire weekend including equipment rental.

We can only accomodate 12 Scouts on this trip, so please sign up right away. If you miss registration and would like to be added to a waiting list, or are interested in another trip like this but on a different weekend, please email troop24events@gmail.com.

Please email troop24events@gmail.com with questions, thanks!

Yours in Scouting,

Cindy Reynolds & Kimber Coombes

Troop 24 Event Coordinators

Just a reminder that we will be playing blanketball tonight.

If you have a few old blankets and/or a beach ball for tonight’s “Blanketball” games, please bring them along!

We’ll also briefly review the Eagle-optional “Sports” merit badge so we can decide whether to organize a merit badge workshop later this year.

And … we’ll begin forming this year’s Klondike Derby crew.

Finally, we’ll take some time to set/review our next-rank goals so we continue to make progress for the Spring Court of Honor.

So, BRING YOUR HANDBOOKS!

ITEMS OF NOTE with updated links!

PAV YMCA swimming/aquatics day at the January 23rd Troop meeting.

To volunteer to assist the running of the 2020 Pack 24 Pinewood Derby on January 25th, sign up HERE.

To join the Klondike Derby team for the 2020 “Pathway to Adventure” Derby, and attempt to re-claim the trophy, also on January 25th, sign up HERE.

This week, we will begin our Sports theme.

In the hopes that we have a snow cover for the January 16th meeting, we’ll wait a week to play outdoor Broomball.

So, this week, we’ll try out “Collective Blanketball” in an exploration of teamwork.

We’ll also briefly review the Eagle-optional “Sports” merit badge so we can decide whether to organize a merit badge workshop later this year.

And … we’ll begin forming this year’s Klondike Derby crew.

Finally, we’ll take some time to set/review our next-rank goals so we continue to make progress for the Spring Court of Honor.

So, BRING YOUR HANDBOOKS!

ITEMS OF NOTE

PAV YMCA swimming/aquatics day at the January 23rd Troop meeting.

To volunteer to assist the running of the 2020 Pack 24 Pinewood Derby on January 25th, sign up HERE.

To join the Klondike Derby team for the 2020 “Pathway to Adventure” Derby, and attempt to re-claim the trophy, also on January 25th, sign up HERE.