COUNTYWIDE : Scouting-for-Food Campaign to Open
Scouting for Food, Orange County’s largest food drive, will begin Saturday with house-to-house distribution of more than 300,000 plastic shopping bags.
About 15,000 Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Explorers and Varsity Scouts will distribute the bags. Residents will be asked to put food items in them, and they will be collected on the following Saturday.
This is the second year that the Orange County Council of the Boy Scouts of America has participated in the drive, which is part of a national campaign, spokesman Art Barrett said.
“This is the Boy Scouts of the future,” Barrett predicted. “Social issues have always been a component of Boy Scouts, but these are new approaches.”
In the last drive, which took place in 1988, more than 810,000 cans of food were collected. This year, more than 1 million items are sought to help fill the food bank at the Food Distribution Center of Orange County, an organization that provides food to 200 other county facilities for the needy, Barrett said.
“The food from the last drive lasted them three to four months,” he said. “This is a chance for everybody in Orange County to contribute.”
Residents will be asked to donate one or two cans of food, such as soup, stew or meat. The cans will be taken to one of 38 participating Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints locations and transferred to National Guard trucks for delivery to the Food Distribution Center.
For more information, call 714-546-4990.
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