Scouting for Food is one of the most important things we do as Scouts. There is a greater need than ever before, and many organizations have communicated that without the Scouting for Food donations they would be forced to close down.

In Scouting for Food, each unit distributes door hangers to homes. The door hangers include instructions to fill a bag with non-perishable food goods and place that bag on the door.

• Please distribute the bags on November 13th.

• Please retrieve the bags on November 20th.

• Contact Devon Hubner <devon.hubner@downeastdistrict.org> 207-807-5130 to get door hangers for your unit.

Please fill out our electronic signup form so that we know how many door hangers you need and which community organization you will be delivering food to:

• Fill out your 2010 Scouting For Food Unit Committment Form
  

You may deliver food to any organization you wish. If the organization is not on our list, please let us know the organization details. Our list of organizations is:

• Help Yourself Shelf (St. Philip's Episcopal Church) - 12 Hodge St., Wiscasset, ME 04578
• Wiscasset Food Pantry (Wiscasset Church of the Nazarene) - 255 Gardiner Rd. (rt 27), Wiscasset, ME 04578
• The Salvation Army () - 22 Congress St., Bath, ME 04530
• Bath Area Food Bank and Soup Kitchen (UCC Basement) - 150 Congress St., Bath, ME 04530
• Soup Kitchen (First Baptist Church) - 851 Washington St., Bath, ME 04540
• Boothbay Region Food Pantry (First Congregational Church) - 1 Eastern Ave., Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538
• Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program () - 84A Union St., Brunswick, ME 04011
• Soup Kitchen () - 84A Union St., Brunswick, ME 04011
• Jefferson Food Pantry (First Baptist Church Parsonage) - 16 Waldoboro Rd., Jefferson, ME
• New Harbor Food Pantry (New Harbor United Methodist Church) - South Side Rd., New Harbor, ME
• Newcastle Ecumenical Food Pantry (Second Congregational Church) - 51 Main St. (Business Rt. 1), Newcastle, ME 04553
• Shepherd of Faith Life Center Food Pantry (Main St.) - Richmond, ME,
• Waldoboro Food Pantry (95 Friendship St.) - Waldoboro, ME 04572,
• St. Denis Whitefield Union Food Book (Whitefield Union Church) - Townhouse Rd. RR 194, Whitefield, ME 04353
• ... Other.

Scouting for Food as a Promotional Event

Wondering how to advertise Scouting in your area? Use Scouting for Food! Scouting for Food represents Scouting at our best: helping others.

There's not a parent around who doesn't want their son to be an upstanding model citizen. Scouting for Food shows the community that your unit is filling with the kind of sons a mother would be proud of!

Image seeing this article in your local paper:

PORT SALERNO — On Saturday, Nov. 7, 14 members of Boy Scout Troop collected food from the Rocky Point area. Troop 840 was participating in Scouting for Food 2009 along with thousands scouts from other Packs, Troops and Venturing Crews in the Gulfstream Council.

Scouting for Food is one of the largest door-to door food collection efforts in our seven-county area.

The scouts passed out fliers and bags the week before collecting the food. Scout Matt Kastelic participated in both weekends because, he said, "I like helping families that are less fortunate than our own family."

Gregory Kusel participated "knowing that the food we collect will be given to others to make sure their Thanksgiving is just as great as ours."

"Troop 840 has been collecting food from the Rocky Point area for at least the last 10 years that I have been involved in the Troop," Scout Master Jim Kusel said.

Tom Ortner, Troop 840 Scouting for Food chairman, said, "We collected more than 1,850 pounds of food, up from last year."

The food collected in Martin County will be distributed by the White Doves organization in their White Doves Holiday Project, according to Mike Baldwin, Sailfish District Scouting for Food director.

Baldwin said, "Last year's food drive yielded over 13,000 pounds of food and helped feed nearly 1,400 local families a holiday meal."

If you are interested in the Boy Scouts call (772) 285-9229 for more information.

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