If your scout is not going to one of our weekend events, you are invited to participate in Pack 24’s Bike Hike, to be held on Sunday, October 3, at the Centennial Trail in Willow Springs. Reservations are needed by Wednesday, September 30 at midnight, and bike transportation is available.

Troop 24 is planning an overnight outing to the Voyager Trace District BSA Centennial Camporee from Friday, October 22, to Sunday, October 24 in Woodstock, IL. Voyageur Trace District invites all DPVC troops to participate in a special fall camporee commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America. Please join us in taking a look back at the beginnings of American scouting at a camporee with activities and programs drawn from the 1911 Handbook for Boys. Scouts should be dropped off at RPC at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, 10/22. They will return mid-day on Sunday, 10/24. The cost for this outing is $15. The adult leaders in charge will be Mike Payne and Stephanie Lanken. Please fill out a form for each scout.

The deadline to sign up has been extended to Monday, October 18, 9:00 a.m. Please register your scout now.

Registration for the Troop’s outing to the Experimental Aviation Association Museum in Osh Kosh will close at 9:00 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29. We have 14 scouts registered and have room for 20. Register online here. If you have not yet paid for the outing, please pay online or drop off a check for $35, made out to Troop 24, to Dawn Gmitro no later than Wednesday.

Our Voyageur Trace District Centennial Camporee will be held October 22-24, at Camp Lakota near Woodstock. Focusing on historic scouting skills, one of the events will be a bugling contest. Buglers should know the following calls: Taps, Reveille, Call to Colors, Assembly, and as many additional calls as they can learn. Any scouts who are interested in participating may want to visit the US Army’s music website at http://bands.army.mil/music/bugle/. The troop does own one bugle, and if multiple scouts are interested, we can possibly borrow others. If trumpeters are interested in participating we will have to inquire about the rules (valves/no valves). Interested scouts should contact Mr. Payne.

Want to learn more about bugles? Check here.

Troop 24 is planning a day outing to the Aurora Sportsmen’s Club Junior Shooting Day on Saturday, October 2. (This is the same weekend as our EAA outing, but since many of our older scouts attended EAA last year, this is an alternative outing.)

Scouts should be dropped off at RPC at 7:30 a.m., and will return at approximately 1:00 p.m. The scouts must choose between Archery or Rifle shooting. The cost for this outing is $10 to shoot Rifle and no cost for Archery. Scouts should bring a sack lunch. The adult leader in charge will be Jim Ringbloom.

The Troop is required to provide 2 leaders for every outing. We have one leader (Mrs. Andersen) signed up for the Experimental Aviation Association outing, but we need at least one other leader/parent. Please, if your son is planning to attend this outing, can you consider driving and attending? Questions? Contact Dawn Gmitro.

Parents will now be able to pay online for Troop outings and events. The Troop is using WePay.com to manage our online payments. The first outing for which this will be available is the Experimental Aviation Association overnight, October 2-3. After you fill out the “sign-up” form you will receive a confirmation message. In that message is a link to WePay.com. You do not need to register as a “buyer” to pay. You will receive an e-mail confirmation from WePay,as well as a “ticket” receipt that you can print. If you have any problems, please contact Nancy Hopkins.

Troop 24 is planning an overnight outing to the EAA, in Osh Kosh, Wisconsin on Saturday, October 2, 2010. The scouts will earn their Aviation Merit Badge during this weekend.  Scouts should be dropped off at RPC at 8:00 a.m. The cost for this outing is $35. The leader will be Cindy Andersen. The deadline for signing up for the outing is Wednesday, September 29. We have reservations for 20 scouts. If your scout already earned the Aviation Merit badge, please do not sign him up for this outing. Please fill out a form for each scout.

For more information contact Dawn Gmitro

The deadline to register to attend Scoutfest on Saturday, September 18, will be the end of the day Monday, September 13. As of Sunday at noon we had 8 scouts registered. If you are interested in attending the day-long event along the Chicago lakefront, please sign up soon.

On September 18, the Troop is participating in Scoutfest in Chicago. If you are not able to attend Scoutfest, scouts may consider attending the Scoutorama being held at the Brookfield Zoo on the same day. If you are a member of the zoo, admission to the Scoutorama is free. If you are not a zoo member, you may wish to purchase admission tickets through the DesPlaines Valley Council, which will include a Scoutorama patch. (Zoo members who get in free can buy the patch for $5). For more information about the Scoutorama, see the Des Plaines Valley Council’s website.