| 2009 Scouting For Food:  | | Pack
15 wins the 2009 Scouting For Food Trophy |
For
2009 Scouting for Food Totals came to 11,543 pounds. Troop 7 had a total of 820
pounds. Pack 15 took the trophy (again) at over 1,700 pounds. One of their scouts
had over 600 pounds alone! --------------------------------- Welcome
to Scouting for Food 2009. Bag distribution to homes will happen Saturday February
7th all during the day and food pickup will be February 14th between 10am and
2pm to accomodate late deliveries, with snacks provided by the Food Bank. (This
is a change from previous years with Pizza lunch, since times are tougher this
year for the Food Bank). The collected food will be taken to the East
Alabama Food Bank. Click HERE
for directions. If you did not receive bags at the January Roundtable, or assigned
area for collecting, contact Curtis Jennings, below, our Scouting for Food Director
for 2008 or come to the Feb 5 Roundtable
meeting at Lakeview Church. Thank you Curtis! We want to
encourage all units and all scouts in those units to participate. Our total official
food collection was 12,864 lbs last year. We want to break the 15,000 lb goal
this year! If each registered scout participates, this is an easy goal to make
if each scout collects his weight in food. Pack 15
was the winner of the coveted Eagle Trophy for most lbs. collected by a unit last
year. They collected almost 5,000 lbs!
What a difference
we can make when all units participate. 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.
Curtis Jennings
Scouting
for Food Chairman 2009
Email: ki4fus@bellsouth.net, Phone: 887-0802 --------------------------------- Click
HERE to print a reminder
flyer to hand out at your Pack meeting/Den meeting. Scout
leaders could download, edit Pack/Troop number and contact information, and print
small bag flyers to attach to your own bags HERE.
You can repeat this, once edited, to print more than one at a time on a Word document
page. It was suggested that you put a rubber band "holder"
through the handle of each of the plastic district provided bags, loop the rubber
band through itself and then hang on the doorknob. This will keep wind from blowing
the bag from the doornob and into the street or yard. Curtis
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: Follow 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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