| 2010 Scouting For Food:  | | Scouting
For Food Trophy, once again awarded to Pack 15 of Aub urn |
This
past week, the Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts certainly demonstrated their motto of
"helping others at all times" through this year's Scouting for Food, and the results
were great. When the final can of food was weighed at the Food Bank, a total of
7,874 pounds of food had been collected! This is the equivalent of 5,250 meals.
We are grateful for all the hard work by the boy scouts and their leaders to make
this such a success. As you know, the Food Bank works with
local non-profit agencies or churches who then distribute food to the needy of
our area. Currently, we are distributing an average of 310,000 pounds of food
each month to more than 160 agencies in a six county area. These agencies include
senior citizen centers, day cares for low-income families, emergency food pantries,
rehabilitation centers, soup kitchens, shelters, and missions. This food feeds
the elderly, disabled, mentally ill, homeless, working poor, battered women and
unemployed workers. Boy Scouting is about the business
of training youth, and one of the great aspects of "Scouting for Food" is that
young people are made more aware that hunger is a problem and are given an opportunity
to do something about hunger. Our sincere thanks go to all who made this food
drive such a success. The Food Bank is honored to partner with you in helping
our community. We have ordered "Scouting for Food" patches
and will get those distributed when they arrive. Pack 858
- 591 pounds
Pack 29 - 551 pounds
Pack 811 - 945 pounds
Troop 218 -
1,329 pounds
Troop 371 - 207 pounds
Pack 15 - 2,229 pounds
Troop
7 - 444 pounds
Pack 800 - 760 pounds
Troop 356 - 126 pounds
Pack 36
- 215 pounds
Pack 13 - 439 pounds
Pack 822 - 38 pounds (2 boys did this
on their own for the pack)
Martha Henk, Executive Director
Food Bank
of East Alabama
375 Industry Drive
Auburn, Alabama 36832
334-821-9006 ----------------------------------------
Notes
from before the Drive:
---------------------------------------- Welcome
to Scouting for Food 2010. Bag distribution to homes will happen Saturday February
6th all during the day and food pickup will be February 13th 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 2010 or come to the Feb 4 Roundtable meeting at Lakeview Church. Thank you
Curtis! We want to encourage all units and all scouts in
those units to participate. 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 2010
Email: ki4fus@bellsouth.net, Phone: 887-0802 --------------------------------- 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.
--------------------------------- Click
HERE
to view and print Unit Collection areas on Google Maps.
or
Click on the
links below to view and print the map area for your unit. to hand out at your
Pack meeting/Den meeting. If you do not see your unit listed, please contact Curtis
Jennings. See contact info above. Pack
15
Pack 29
Pack
36
Pack 800
Pack
811
Pack 823
Troop
7
Troop 11
Troop
29
Troop 218
Troop
354
Troop 371 ----------------------------------------- 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
to Food Bank | 
