We don't have the totals from this year, but here are some facts for Scouting for Food:
- The average collected over the last 17 years that our council has had its food drive is 174,109 pounds of food!
- The best year was 2002 when 204,669 pounds was collected.
- Last year, the total was down to 134,599 pounds. Hopefully we did a little better this year.
- The total collected since 1997 is 2,866,547 pounds of food. This equivalent to 3,821,862 cans of soup which would stretch out over 241 miles if laid end-to-end and go from Concord to Sacramento to Lake Tahoe to Reno and finally halfway to Lovelock, Nevada! Now, that's a lot of soup!
Why do we do this? Because a Scout is helpful. Scouts help those in need. Because we have Scout Spirit and live the Scout Law.
Who dies this help? Mostly families and children who do not enough food. The Contra Costa/Solano Food Bank serves over 188,000 people each month through direct service programs and has a network of 169 partner agencies. Over 25 percent of people receiving assistance are children.
What can we do to make Scouting for Food even better? Double our numbers by inviting a friend or encouraging each other stay out longer to collect food on our collection day.
Thank you!
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| Scouts ready to pick up food! |
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| It was a great day to pick up food! |
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| Okay, it wasn't all business! |
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| Great job boys (and parents too)! |
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| Finished hanging door hangers! |
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| Circle up boys! |
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| Final ins ructions before we pick up food. |
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| We even got the parents into this photo! |
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| The best part? Dropping off the food. |
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| Alicia: Listen...listen...okay, signs up!! |
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| Let's hope that the truck gets filled up. |
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| Food bank truck. |
