Please visit the Troop Photo Gallery for recently posted photographs:

Kankakee State Park
4th of July
Camp Mach
Aviation Museum

Over 300 new photos were uploaded over the weekend, so most of our scouts are likely pictured. Those who have not witnessed the bog hike in person will probably be interested in the Camp Mach album. Thanks to parents who provided some of the pictures. Most photos were taken by Troop Historian/Photographer, Abraham O.

This is a reminder that Troop dues of $25 per Scout are due by November 15. You may drop them at the Marciniaks’ at 249 Gage Road in Riverside, or with any leader or Troop committee member. Please call Jim Marciniak at 708-443-5851 if you have questions. Timely payment and return of the Scout commitment form are critical for our annual rechartering of the Troop for 2010.

More details will be coming, but for those of you who want to plan ahead, the Troop’s schedule for outings for the remainder of the year is:

December 12 – Camping at a location TBD
January 16 – Eagle Cave
March 20 – Camping at a location TBD (first outing for Cubs Scouts crossing over in February)
April 23 – Lincoln Pilgrimage, Springfield
May 15 – Camping at a location TBD

The Troop is planning an outing to Apple River Canyon State Park. We’ll be leaving at 9:00 a.m. on Friday, November 27, and returning by approximately noon on Sunday, November 29. Scouts who plan to attend should turn in the permission slip with $20 by Thursday, November 19. Please bring it to the Troop meeting, or turn it in to Dawn Gmitro.

Please join us for the fall Court of Honor on Thursday, November 12, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. in the Riverside Presbyterian Church Social Hall. Refreshments will be served after the ceremony – stay and visit a while! NOTE: Scouts, please arrive at 6:45 P.M. in FULL UNIFORM.

Watch your mailbox for a letter from Troop 24 this week about reinstatement of a dues payment for the 2009-2010 Scouting year to help defray the cost of the Troop’s annual rechartering with the national Scouting organization. For questions about dues, please call Troop Committee Chairman Jim Marciniak at 708-443-5851.

This week is our last week of the canned food drive. Can you help? If you can, please bring a can (or two) to the Troop meeting on Thursday. (Boxed items, other than pasta, are also welcome.) Do what you can!

Hello once again-

This past Saturday was a great success and I’m hoping for another successful Saturday of work this Sat, 10/24. If you are available to help from 9 am to noon, please e-mail me at louthenej@gmail.com We will be meeting at the Water Tower and going around town to hang up the students’ artwork.

Thanks,
Elliot Louthen

There has been a change to the schedule for next weekend’s outing to the Voyager Trace Fall Camp-o-ree at Illinois Beach State Park. Due to Leader availability the trip has been changed to a day trip. We will leave from the Riverside Presbyterian Church parking lot at 7:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 24 and return at approximately 9:00 p.m. the same day. The Scouts will be dropped off at their homes in the evening. If you paid by check, your check will be returned to you, and we ask that you send in a $10 check at your earliest convenience. If you paid by cash you will receive a $10 refund.

Contact Dawn Gmitro with any questions.

The Girl Scouts are sponsoring Riverfest this weekend, and the Boy Scouts will be helping them construct a corn maze. We need 6-8 boys on SUNDAY at 9:00 am at the triangular park behind the water works. We expect this should only take about 1 to 1.5 hours, but we have from 9:00 to noon to get it done. The corn maze we will be building is for smaller children to go through. All the materials will be there for us. The plan is to have an area about 10 to 15 feet by 10 to 15 feet and about 6 feet tall. Please contact Ray Rogers with questions, or to volunteer.