| 2007 Scouting For Food: Well,
Scouting for Food was a huge success. Bag distribution to homes happened February
3rd and food pickup was February 10th. The collected food was taken to the East
Alabama Food Bank. Click HERE
for directions. We want to thank all participating units
and scouts. Our total official food collection was 12,664 lbs with additional
cash donations of $403. Pack 15 was the winner of the coveted
Eagle Trophy for most lbs. collected by a unit. They collected over 4,000 lbs.
Unit totals are listed below. Let us know of any discrepencies:
Troop 7:
975 lbs.
Troop 45: 350 lbs.
Troop 356: 431 lbs.
Pack 15: 4,075 lbs. (District
Trophy Winner 3 years running)
Pack 29: 1,826 lbs. + $225 in cash
Pack 36:
391 lbs.
Pack 218: 291 lbs.
Pack 354: 212 lbs.
Pack 356: 425 lbs.
Pack
396: 155 lbs. + $178 in cash
Pack 800: 1,790 lbs.
Pack 811: 1,659 lbs.
Pack
822: 147 lbs.
We also want to thank Troop 30 for helping
transfer, weigh, and store collected food from unit cars and trucks to the Food
Bank. What a difference we can and have made. 13 Units participating
and over 6 tons of food donated to a most worthy cause. As always the winners
are the scouts for their community service and the individuals in need who benefit
from the East Alabama Food Bank. Thanks again to all our participants. You did
Great!!!!!!
J. T. McMurtrie, Jr.
Saugahatchee District Commissioner
Chairman
Scouting for Food Chairman 2007 --------------------------------- Bags
were available for units at the February 1st
Roundtable, and by contacting Ted McMurtrie if your unit wanted to have them
earlier:
Email: jmcmurtrie@charter.net, Phone: 887-8267 Scout
leaders could download, edit Pack/Troop number and contact information, and print
small flyers to attach to your bags HERE.
You can repeat this, once edited, to print more than one at a time on a Word document
page. The Saugahatchee District Goal for 2007 was 20,000
lbs of food. If only 20 units collects 1000 lbs we could easily have met our goal.
One suggested goal was for each scout to collect at least his own weight in food. Ted
has suggested that Leaders combine this year's food pickup on Feb 10 with bowling
and the Campout on the Ice night.
http://www.saugahatchee.org/CampoutOnTheIce2006.htm
Contact
Ted about this idea to encourage your scouts by providing a full scouting day. Ted
also suggested not to knock on doors when placing bags on doorknobs of homes,
but do knock when picking them up since sometimes people forget. Email reminders
and calls to friends and neighbors would help them to remember. Be
sure to walk with smaller scouts in case they approach an animal that is not contained.
----------------------------------------- Directions
to Food Bank: Go down Highway 14 away from Auburn towards
Loachapoka Turn left onto Webster Road go over railroad tracks (Right across from
Auburn City Limits Restaurant) Go past MasterBrand Cabinets and turn right on
to McMillan Street Take next right on to Industry Drive. The Food Bank will be
on your right. Map
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