Scouts collect food for local pantries
Thanks to the generosity of community residents, Scout Troop 150 and Pack 150 of Annandale collected 9,049 pounds of food in November during the Scouting for Food drive.
That’s the largest haul in the past five years and more than 3,000 more pounds than they collected last year.
The Scouts and Webelos distributed the food to two facilities in Annandale: the ACCA Food Pantry on Columbia Pike and the Annandale United Methodist Church’s Mission Center on Heritage Drive.
This year’s drive involved 114 Scout participants, 52 adult volunteers, and 547 combined hours of community service for planning, setting up, distributing stickers, collecting food, and stocking pantries. They collected a total of 676 bags.
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I’m genuinely proud of every one of those children and their parents. They achieved this without applying an “Equity Lens,” conducting a racial equity impact assessment, or convening a cross-sector equity task force. Yet Fairfax County leadership keeps insisting these layers of bureaucratic ritual are “critical to our future.”
Funny how excellence seems to thrive better without them.
Cheers to these kids when more and more of our neighbors are falling through the economic cracks.
Great job!