Above: Southborough Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts will team up again with BSA Scouts for their annual Scouting for Food program in November. (images from flyer and photo by Susan Fitzgerald)
Thursday isn’t the only time this week that kids in town will be approaching your doors.
Town scouts will be out in droves this weekend. But their only costumes will be scout uniforms and instead of asking for candy, they’ll be hanging bags with flyers on your doorknobs.
The flyers will ask the community to donate to the big annual Scouting for Food collection drive. That will take place a week from Saturday.
On November 9th, the same scouts who hang bags this weekend will return to those neighborhoods hoping to gather a bounty for the Southborough Food Pantry.
Scout families looking to volunteer should head to Pilgrim Church to pick up bags with flyers this Friday night (6:00 – 8:00 pm) or Saturday morning (8:00 – 10:00 am). Bags should be hung on doorknobs (not on or in mailboxes) during the day (not after dark).
The pantry is looking for the following items:
plastic wrap
aluminum foil
solid white tuna
liquid hand soap
rice pilaf
laundry detergent
dish detergent
minced clams
cake mix
brownie mix
jelly
Ritz & Saltine crackers
chicken broth
Capri Sun
shampoo
ketchup
mustard
mayo
cranberry juice
olive oil
Dinty Moore beef stew
pasta sauce in jars
corned beef hash
sugar
canned meats (chicken, spam)
pickles
relish
olives
barbecue sauce
paper products (paper towels, tissues, toilet paper)
plastic bags (snack, sandwich, quart, gallon)
coffee (regular, decaf, instant)
grocery store gift cards
Please remember to check the expiration dates before you donate. (Also, note that while it’s fine to donate multi-packs, please don’t donate jumbo/commercial-sized items, like giant jars.)
Donations should be left outside on your doorstep or driveway in marked bags on Saturday, November 9th at 9:00 am.
If there are no signs of scouts collecting food in your neighborhood, you can still participate by dropping off items at Pilgrim Church between 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.
Or, you can support the pantry by making a direct donation here.
