The Troop Committee meeting is Tuesday, February 5, at 7:00 pm, in the RPC upstairs “parlor.” Parents are welcome (& encouraged) to attend.

Our March outing will be to Camp Crown in Wilmot, IL, leaving on Saturday, 3/8, and returning on Sunday, permission slips due on 2/28.

 Our April outing will be to the Grant Pilgrimage in Galena, IL, leaving Friday, 4/25 and returning on Sunday, permission slips due on 4/10. 

Our June outing will be to Lake Shabbonah on Father’s Day weekend. 

Please reserve these dates and think about helping out as a leader. 

The permission slip and $6.50 for the Klondike Derby is due 1/31 (and not 1/24, as the previous post erroneously stated).

The Boy Scouts of America celebrate the anniversary of the founding of Boys Scouts on February 8. Scout Sunday is celebrated on the Sunday preceding February 8. The tradition of Scout Sunday was started to make people in church aware of Scouting, and to allow Scouts to live out parts of what they pledge each week. The Scout Law says that a “Scout is Reverent” and Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of all ages promise to do their “Duty to God.” Among the purposes of scouting are Spiritual Growth, Character Development, and Good Citizenship. Riverside Presbyterian Church has sponsored Boy Scout Troop 24 and Cub Scout Pack 24 since May, 1939. There are currently 37 Boy Scouts in Troop 24 and 94 Cub Scouts in Pack 24. The Riverside Presbyterian Church would like to invite all scouts and their families to the Scout Sunday service this Sunday, February 3, with the service at 10:00 a.m. and coffee fellowship hosted by the scouts following the service.

24 scouts sold popcorn this fall and can use the popcorn money earned for partial payment of Camp Mach. If you don’t remember how much of a discount you earned, please contact Deb Cox or Nancy Hopkins. Remember, permission slips are due by Friday, January 25 for the early bird rate of $200.

Camp Mach permission slips are due by January 25 if you want to pay the discounted rate of $200. After January 25, it will cost $225 per scout. Please turn in your permission slips and payment at the Troop meeting on January 24, or drop it off to Nancy Hopkins.

The date of the camp is Sunday, July 27 through Saturday, August 2.

Scouts who cross over in February have until April 30 to pay the “early bird” discounted rate of $200; after April 30 the rate will be $225.

The Voyageur Trace Klondike Derby is on Saturday, 2/9, in Bemis Woods South, Western Springs. The cost is $6.50 per person. The permission slip is due Thursday, 1/24. All scouts should bring a sack lunch and a can of non-cream soup, and wear clothing appropriate to the weather. In the morning patrols will go from station to station for games and challenges. The Klondike Derby is in the afternoon, with Troop 24 defending their title of fastest sled. We will need parents to drive there and back, and we may need parents to help at the Derby.

Troop 24’s annual week-long camp at Camp Mach-Kin-O-Siew in Elcho, Wisconsin is scheduled for Sunday, July 27 through Saturday, August 2.

The cost per scout is $200, if paid by January 25, or $225 if paid after January 25. The deadline for signing up is Thursday, May 29. (Scouts who cross over in February have until April 30 to pay the “early bird” discounted rate of $200; after April 30 the rate will be $225.) Permission slips with payment should be turned in at a Troop Meeting or to Nancy Hopkins.

See our photo gallery for photos from last year’s trip to Camp Mach.

There are new photos in the Troop Photo Gallery from the recent Eagle Cave trip, as well as the November orienteering outing. Also now in the gallery are photos from the 2006 Eagle Cave trip previously posted as a Powerpoint presentation. Thanks to everyone who shared their pictures. If any scouts or parents have photos you would like added to the Gallery, please send them to Nancy Hopkins.

The National Eagle Scout Association wants to contact every living Eagle Scout and register his achievements, past and present. If you know an Eagle Scout, please alert him about this important project. Visit the NESA website for more information.