Hundreds of scouts were out and about Rhode Island neighborhoods Saturday in the first of two steps of this year’s Scouting for Food drive. On Saturday they placed door hangers informing people …
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Hundreds of scouts were out and about Rhode Island neighborhoods Saturday in the first of two steps of this year’s Scouting for Food drive. On Saturday they placed door hangers informing people of the drive. This Saturday they will be back to collect donations of food. Donations should be bagged and placed outside the front door of where the door hanger was left by 9 a.m.
Collections from this year’s drive will in large part will go to community food pantries as well as the Community Food Bank of Rhode Island. In years past most of the food went to the food bank, however according to a spokesman for the Narragansett Council Boy Scouts of America this year the Rhode Island National Guard was unable to make the same level of commitment to transport boxes of food from local collection sites to the Food Bank.
“The Food Bank will still get food, but not the same amount,” he said. Church food pantries and Community Action operated programs such as the West Bay Market Place of Westbay Community Action will get a large segment of the donations.
With inflation cutting into budgets and forcing people to make choices between rent, medications, heat and food, this year’s drive is seen as especially critical. Last year nearly 200 scouting packs and troops from across Southern New England participated in the drive collecting more than 150,000 pounds of food.
According to door hangers, the most needed items include canned tuna, peanut butter, soups, cereal and canned vegetables.
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