Due to a conflict with RB Open House, the Troop Committee meeting for September will be held on September 14 rather than September 7.

Dates for Troop Committee Meetings for this school year are:

September 14 (This is the SECOND Tuesday)
October 5
November 2
December 7
January 11 (This is the SECOND Tuesday)
February 1
March 1
April 5
May 3

All meetings are held in the upstairs Parlor at the Riverside Presbyterian Church from 7:00 to approximately 8:30 p.m. All scout parents are welcome to attend.

For more information about what the Troop Committee does, you may wish to read an excerpt from the BSA Troop Committee Guidebook .

Photos were recently added to the Troop website from Camp Owasippe, the Riverside Memorial Day Ceremony, and Sam C’s Eagle Project. Please visit our Photo Gallery to view the pictures. If you have photos to share from these or any other Troop event, please get them to Nancy Hopkins. Rainbow Connection crew: If someone from your boat does not supply photos, no one will ever know you were at Seabase!

All scouts are encouraged to attend the Eagle Court of Honor for Peter Falk, Elliot Louthen, and Austin McKain, to be held Thursday, July 22, at 7:00 p.m. at the Riverside Presbyterian Church.

Our Scoutmaster reports that the bus is about an hour and 45 minutes from home (as of 10:20). Please plan to pick up your scout at about 12:05 in the Hauser parking lot. If we receive an updated estimate another Feedblitz message will be sent; if you do not receive another message, the estimate has not changed.

The scouts are on their way home. Watch your e-mail for an update on arrival time. This is a photo taken this morning while they were loading up.

Our Scoutmaster reports that everything is going very well at Camp Owasippe. The scouts are working hard on merit badges, there have been NO behavior problems, and they have had no issues whatsoever. A couple of boys were homesick, but a phone call home resolved the problem, and they have been fine since. 20 scouts slept overnight on a submarine, the USS Silversides. The Pathfinder (1st Year Camper) Program has been excellent. Several scouts went tubing (behind a boat) yesterday, and their “Troop Swim” is tonight. There has been some light rain but no lightning. Aside from the hot weather, everything has been perfect. They are planning to leave Owasippe at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday and arrive home by shortly after noon. When they approach Riverside, the leader on the bus will call, and a Feedblitz notice will be sent with a more definite time, so please watch your e-mail on Saturday.

The picture below shows the Troop’s dining tent in their campsite:

Any scouts or parents who have photos from Seabase: please send pictures to Nancy Hopkins, if you are willing to share them on the Troop website.

The picture below was taken on Monday in Troop 24’s campsite, shortly before they ate supper. They had some rain during the night on Sunday, and it’s hot, but things were going well overall.

To our knowledge, these are the scouts who will be riding the bus TO Owasippe, but will NOT be returning on the bus. If there are other scouts who will be riding the bus only one way, please send an e-mail to Nancy Hopkins. If any of these scouts are on this list in error, and will be riding the bus BOTH ways, please let me know that as well.

Dima A.
Casey G.
Michael Ge.
Chris O.