2013 Scouting for Food

Pack 380 Scouts and Families!

We are meeting this Saturday to do our annual good turn as a Pack to collect food for the local food bank.  This first Saturday we will meet to distribute door hangers to the neighborhood around Woodside Elementary School.  The next Saturday we will go out to collect the donated food.

What:  Scouting for Food

When:  Saturday, November 9, 2013 at 9am

Where:  Meet at Woodside Elementary School parking lot

We are assigned a specific area around Woodside Elementary School.  The area that we cover has almost 400 homes.

Scouts should wear their Class A uniforms.  A light jacket or sweat shirt is advisable for the first part of the morning.  Wear comfortable sneakers good for walking.  We will do this rain or shine so please come prepared for the weather.

We will provide some pastries/danishes and juice to get us going in the morning.

Just show up!  No need to bring anything.  This is one of our more important community activites as a pack so we are counting on maximum participation by our scouts.

The food that we collect goes to the Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano.  The following are some facts about the food bank and Scouting for Food:

• The warehouse can have up to 1.5 million pounds of food at one time on-hand.
• They turn over the food five or six times in one year with this amount of food equal to the amount of food that can fill up about 70 train cars.
• The food bank serves about 132,000 people each month.  This is more than the population of Concord.
• The food bank also hands out toys, bicycles and other items for kids.
• One of their unusual donations was a very large shipment of M&M peanuts.
• Another memorable donation was a very large shipment of stuffed animals.
• They have been able to cut back on how much they spend on electricity by installing $700,000 of solar panels on their roof.
• They have very large drive-in refrigerators that they keep at about 40 degrees. 
• They also have a very large freezer that they keep at something like 7 degrees below ze
• In 2010, Scouting for Food brought in 165,000 pounds of food.  This effort helps the food bank make it through the holidays to help those in need.

As you can see this is a tremendous community activity that is undertaken by scouts each year.