Twenty-three Amarillo Cub Scout Packs and Boy Scout Troops will mobilize Saturday to help feed the hungry by collecting food for the High Plains Food Bank.
Directed by Tandy Arrant, 1999 Scouting for Food chairman, local Scouts will pick up bags filled with food from local residents.
Empty grocery sacks were enclosed with last Sunday's News-Globe to give people an opportunity to fill them as part of the food bank's "Together We Can" holiday food drive.
Amarillo residents can place the filled sacks in front of their homes on Saturday, where they will be picked up by members of various Scout troops throughout the city.
Organized by the Golden Spread Council, Boy Scouts of America, the 1999 Scouting for Food Good Turn has a goal of collecting 25,000 pounds of food.
The food bank distributes food to 179 agencies, which then distribute the packaged food products to people in need through pantry programs or use the food to prepare meals for clients at the agencies.
During the earlier part of the year, the High Plains Food Bank distributed an average of 300,000 pounds of food each month, according to Mandy Wulfman, food bank program development coordinator.
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