Scouts To Collect Food This Saturday

If you received a bag on your doorknob last Saturday from the Boy Scouts, please fill it with food and place it by your front door by 9 AM this Saturday, November 13, 2010. The Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts will be coming around to collect the food donations.

Suggested items include:

• peanut butter
• tuna fish
• canned fruits and vegetables
• shelf-stable milk
• canned tomato sauce
• beans
• macaroni and cheese
• soup
• cereal
• oatmeal
• rice
• pasta
• baby food
• other canned meat and fish and
  canned pasta

Scouting for Food is a national effort. The food collected in Rockville will be taken to the Manna Food Center. Manna serves 3,300 people per month and half are children. Hunger is a hidden problem in Montgomery County where a family of four needs to earn $70,000 to be minimally self-sufficient. All to often when faced with bills for housing, doctors, transportation, and utilities, there isn’t enough money left over for food.

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