GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The 30th Annual Scouting For Food collection is scheduled for Saturday.
For the past week, residents in 22 Wisconsin counties have been filling bags, and Saturday morning, Boy Scouts will go door to door to collect the donations.
Craig Robbins, Bay Lakes Council Distribution Chair and Executive Director of Paul’s Pantry, said it is as simple as putting items in the bags that have been distributed.
“If they received a bag, the scouts will be around from 8:00 until 11:00am.”
The bags even list items from what has been labled as “The Food Drive Five” or five catagories of food items people can donate.
“They include canned proteins, canned fruits in juice, canned vegatables, whole grain pasta and cereal and soups.”
Robbins said people are not limited to those items, but they should stay away from glass that can break.
Scouting for Food is Bay Lakes Council’s effort to provide community service on a large scale basis, and they have been leading the way for more than 25 years.
Robbins added that all the food collected stays local, and those who may not have received a bag, can still participate by donating to local food pantries.
The goal overall is to collect over 500,000 items and in Green Bay area, Robbins said the goal is to excede last year’s total.
“We would like to be able to collect 100,000 food items.”
Robbins said last year, the Green Bay area had about 95,000 items collected.
