Westwood Food Pantry and Cub Scouts Team Up for Townwide Food Drive

The Westwood Cub Scout Troops will once again be hosting their annual “Scouting For Food" Drive to benefit the Westwood Food Pantry on Saturday, November 19, 2022. Westwood Food Panty invites all residents to participate in this drive that stocks the food pantry’s shelves for the coming months.

Over the weekend of November 12 - 13, 2022, members of the Cub Scouts will be heading out in their neighborhoods, distributing flyers about the drive. If you receive a flyer at your door and would like to participate, please package up your non-perishable donations and leave them outside your front door by 9 a.m. on Saturday, November 19th. The scouts will stop by and
pick them up.

If you don’t receive a flyer, plan on stopping by the Thurston Middle School Cafeteria 850 High Street on Saturday, November 19th between 9 a.m.-12 p.m. for curbside drop off of non-perishable donations. Volunteers will be on-hand to unload your car and accept your donations.

The most needed items are canned fruits and vegetables, cans of white tuna, baked beans, Progresso soups, condiments, salad dressing, cookies, crackers, granola bars, flour, oatmeal, pasta sauce, cereal, peanut butter, toothpaste, soap, seltzers, juice and incontinence pads/underwear.

Donations of food are also always accepted at the Westwood Food Pantry bin near the checkout area at Roche Bros in Westwood, and at the Westwood Council On Aging at 60 Nahatan Street from Mondays to Fridays between 9:00 a.m. to noon.

For more information on how you can support Westwood Food Pantry, please visit www.westwoodfoodpantry.org.

Thanks to Mary Ellen LaRose, Westwood Food Pantry Board Member, for contributing this story to Westwood Minute.

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