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M.V. Community Supports Scouting For Food

By STEPHANIE BUNKER

Moapa Valley Progress

The community participated in the Scouting for Food Drive on Saturday  morning, gathering nonperishable foods to be donated to Cappalappa  Resource Center. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE BUNKER/Moapa Valley Progress.
The community participated in the Scouting for Food Drive on Saturday morning, gathering nonperishable foods to be donated to Cappalappa Resource Center. PHOTO BY STEPHANIE BUNKER/Moapa Valley Progress.

The Moapa Valley community pulled together last week in an effort to help local Boy Scouts troop in their annual Scouting For Food Drive. The food drive is held each November to help those that are struggling here in Moapa Valley to keep food on the table.

This year’s Scouting for Food event didn’t include just Scouts but was open to anyone willing to help. Boy Scouts of America Anasazi District Committee Chairman Ryan Wheeler explained that the preparation for the drive had begun earlier in the week when area Cub Scouts, 8-11 year old boys, distributed leaflets to all the homes in the communitiy informing residents of the food drive coming up and giving instructions on how to help.

Then at about 9:00 Saturday morning the real work of collecting began. The Boy Scouts ages 12-18, went around to each doorstep picking up nonperishable food items that had been set out by the residents. They took all the food gathered to the LDS Hinckley Chapel where it was unloaded.

Taking advantage of the beautiful weather on Saturday morning, a sorting group worked outside on the picnic tables. Help there came from the LDS Young Men and Women organizations, Girl Scouts, and any other volunteers they picked up. A team checked expiration dates on the food and grouped the variety of foods together. Wheeler said there was a table for fruits, vegetables, beans, meat, condiments.

“We are hoping that boxing like foods will be a benefit to the organization we take it to,” Wheeler said.
The local food pantry at Cappalappa Family Resource Center was the recipient of all of the food gathered.
“By taking it to Cappalappa the food will stay here and go to local families,”Wheeler said. “Cappalappa knows who those families are that are going through tough times and they know what they need.”
Wheeler was prepared to send a lot of food over to the Resource Center. There were two pickup trucks and a flatbed trailer on hand to move the food.

Well over 300 volunteers attended on Saturday morning to make this charitable event happen. But Scouting for Food also took the help of the community setting out and donating food to make this food drive a successful one.

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