Oklahoma City - Over 60,000 pounds of food collected by Boy Scouts across Central and Southwestern Oklahoma
To help alleviate hunger in our community, Scouting for Food collected more than 60,000 pounds of food. Scouting for Food is an annual collection of nonperishable food items, coordinated across the 24 counties served by the Last Frontier Council. Various food pantries across the community will receive the food collected, and in turn, give the food to hundreds of individuals or families in need.
Vahid Farzaneh, a Home Creations Managing Partner says, “Helping the Boy Scouts with their mission is important to Home Creations because of the dedication they have to the community and feeding people in need. At Home Creations we share the same dedication to give back to the community and build it up. It feels good to help an organization that gave me some of the best memories growing up.”
“The Scout slogan is Do a Good Turn Daily” said council commissioner Art Schmidt. “Our Scouts log over 100,000 service hours annually. This project enabled Scouts to demonstrate to the community the values of Scouting they live by every day.”
Please contact Sarah Spinks with Last Frontier Council, 405-840-1114 for additional information or to make a belated donation.
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The Last Frontier Council of the Boy Scouts of America includes 24 counties in Central and Southwest Oklahoma.
The Scouting for Food campaign involved door-to-door food collection efforts by Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts,
and Venturers. On the first of two successive Saturdays, Scouts distributed informational door hangers
throughout their designated area. The following weekend, Scouts collected bags of food and took them
to local food pantries.