Pack 24’s annual Blue & Gold banquet and Crossover ceremony will be held on Sunday, February 27. We need 16 boy scouts to participate in the crossover. Interested scouts should contact Mr. Payne (pain08@comcast.net) by Wednesday morning at 8:00 a.m.
The ceremony will take place at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday, at the same place as it has been held for the past three years: Park Place, 6240 Joliet Road, Countryside.
February 24 will be the last chance for scouts to receive a Board of Review prior to the spring Court of Honor on March 17. If a scout needs a Board of Review, please contact our Scoutmaster ASAP.
The deadline for turning in Pancake Breakfast ticket money is Thursday, February 24. Please bring your money to the troop meeting on Thursday night, if you haven’t already turned it in. Reminder: all scouts are required to turn in $75 each for their allotted tickets. Thank You!
Troop 24′s annual summer camp will be held at Camp Mach-Kin-O-Siew (Camp Mach) in northern Wisconsin. We will leave Riverside at 7:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, July 31, and return about mid-day on Saturday, August 6.
If you register before February 24, you are eligible for a discount of $25, for a reduced price of $265 (less any popcorn credit you may have earned). The cost is $290 if paid after February 24. For scouts who have popcorn credit, the amount of the credit should be deducted from your cost.
Webelos 2 scouts have until March 24 to register and receive the discount.
To sign up: Camp Mach Form
The upcoming RB referendum will affect the high school experience for most of our scouts. At 7:00 p.m., on Thursday, February 24, we invite Troop 24 and Pack 24 parents (and any interested friends, neighbors, etc.) to attend an informational session in the Social Hall at RPC. Dr. Bonnette and Jim Landahl will be making the presentation, and can answer any questions you might have. (In addition to being an active parent, Jim’s sons are scouts in Brookfield.)
A document showing the cuts necessary in the RB budget, if the referendum does not pass, can be found on the RB website at: http://www.rbhs208.org/2011-12BudgetGuidlelinesTentative11-1-10%20.pdf More information about the referendum can be found here: http://www.yesrbhs.org/. For specific information on what additional tax you would pay, based on your house’s assessed value, visit “The Cost” page on this website.
Since you will be dropping off your scouts at RPC anyway, please come in for the presentation!
Thursday, February 24, 7:00 p.m.
This is your last chance to sign up for the ski trip to Sunburst (February 25-27). We advertised this as a “family outing,” meaning that parents and siblings are welcome to attend. However, scouts (other than Webelos 2 scouts) do NOT need to have a family member sign up in order to go. We still have space left in the cabin. We will accept registrations through Sunday, February 20 at 8:00 p.m.
The deadline for turning in Pancake Breakfast ticket money is fast approaching. Please bring your money to the troop meeting on Thursday night if you have it ready. Reminder: all scouts are required to turn in $75 each for their allotted tickets. Thank You!
Fourteen people have registered for the Ski trip (4 adults, 9 scouts, and 1 sibling). The camp at which we will be staying on Saturday night needs a tentative count for the meals. If you have been considering going, please sign up ASAP. More information is available here: http://troop24riverside.com/2011/01/sunburst-ski-trip-february-26-27/
For scouts who signed up for the Klondike Derby (tomorrow, February 12), please be at RPC by 7:15 a.m. One of the purposes of the Klondike Derby is to to prepare scouts for cold weather and adverse conditions. It’s very important that scouts dress for a full day outside. Scout should bring the following items:
Drinking cup
Scout Handbook
Boots – NOT low-cut athletic boots – they will be walking through snow
Adequate layers of clothing: long underwear/undershirt, shirt, liner coat, winter coat;
NO JEANS or cotton pants; double socks – ideally synthetic next to the skin and wool outer socks
Headgear that COVERS THE EARS
Scarf for face and neck OR stocking cap with face cover
Lined gloves/mittens (bring an extra pair)
Complete change of clothes (will be transported by sled and only used if needed)
One can of NON-CREAM soup – to be dumped into a communal pot and made into “garbage can soup”
Sack lunch to supplement the soup
All members of Troop 24 are required to work a shift at the Pancake Breakfast which will be held on Saturday, March 5. Sue Jones, the Pancake Breakfast Chair, is in the process of making the scout schedule for this event. She will need to know if a scout has any timing conflicts on that date by this Friday, February 12. Please email her at sue_jones@designpac.com if you have a time conflict, so she can accommodate you. After February 12, the schedule will be finalized and will be sent out to the troop membership. After this date, if a scout can not make the shift that he is assigned to, it is the responsibility of the scout to arrange to switch with another scout and also to email Sue Jones to inform her of the switch. Thank you in advance for your cooperation in this important scheduling project.
