Boy Scout Food Drive Hits Plymouth Meeting

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts held their annual Scouting for Food food drive, which benefits in Ambler.

Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts had placed plastic bags at residences around Wissahickon, as well as parts of Plymouth, Horsham, and Upper Dublin on Saturday, Nov. 12. On Saturday, Nov. 19, the scouts collected those bags and brought them to the community cupboard in Ambler.

Girl Scout troops sorted the food into bins for volunteers at the cupboard. They sorted bags into bins full of green beans, Thanksgiving items, soup, fruit, and more.

Girl Scout Troops took one-hour shirts sorting food.

Volunteers from the cupboard then weighed the bins before placing the items onto the shelves.

Nearly 2,000 Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from the area had brought in approximately 1,500 lbs. of food in the first hour and a half of the daylong food drive. Volunteers said last year, the Scouting for Food food drive brought in around 5,000 pounds of food.