This weekend, more than 1,000 Catawba County Boy Scouts will spend their Saturday helping feed the hungry.
As their first step in the "Scouting for Food" Good Turn, part of the Piedmont Council's appeal undertaken by Scouts across the 11 county area covered by the Council, Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Venturers visited neighborhoods last weekend in the Catawba County area and surrounding counties to distribute Scouting for Food informational door hangers door-to-door.
Saturday, beginning at 9 a.m., Scouts will return to pick up bags filled with food.
"In just one day last year, the local Scouting for Food Good Turn provided our agency with enough dry food goods to last through almost February," said Roger Baker at Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministries. "The Scouts one-day project is amazing."
The goal is to collect more than 20,000 cans for the Greater Hickory Cooperative Christian Ministries and the Eastern Cooperative Christian Ministries food banks in Hickory and Newton. In the remaining counties served by the Piedmont Council BSA, Scouts will be collecting more than 100,000 food items for community food banks.
Last year more than 1,000 families received food assistance in Catawba County. Many Hickory area residents sought help in obtaining food for themselves and their families.
Under the local direction of Steve Brackett, the volunteer county chairman, the Piedmont Council, Boy Scouts of America, is conducting the food drive. Individuals not receiving door hangers at their homes may drop off their donations at one of the above collections sites between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturday.
Related link:
www.piedmontcouncilbsa.org
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