Scouts BSA held their annual Scouting for Food drive on Saturday, and the scouts from the Golden Gate Area Council collected an impressive amount of donations for the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano.
Scouts asked for canned goods, peanut butter, cereal, pancake mix, crackers, rice, beans, pasta, dried fruit or snack bars.
Scouts delivered flyers to thousands of local residents on Nov.5, and the boys and girls from each Troop, Crew and Pack followed-up by going door-to-door the following weekend to collect the donations.
As of today, the Food Bank of Contra Costa & Solano has taken in 76,361 pounds of food from the food drive.
Nice job, Scouts, and thanks to everyone for donating.
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Awesome job, Scouts!! Thank you to our neighbors for contributing!!
I was so happy to see the Scouts on the 5th when the asked and again on the 12th when they picked up are donations, makes me feel good about them and myself
I was waiting for the bag to be placed on my stoop to donate. Unfortunately, I guess no Troop was assigned to our neighborhood. Add to that my brain failed to allow me to remember the day they were collecting, as I would have driven out to where I know my son’s former Troop collects. Great job with this collection, nice amount of food. This is a great service activity from a fantastic organization. If you have kids, get them into Scouts!
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