COLE ORGANIZES "TREATS FOR TROOPS" DRIVE

 
 
Trevor Cole, a Life Scout in Livonia's Boy Scout Troop 4074 decided to do something for the servicemen who are stationed overseas. In a project he called Treats For Troops, Trevor collected Halloween candy from the students of Livonia's Elementary and Middle schools. For the few days after Halloween, Trevor had collection boxes at both schools and with daily reminders in the schools' announcements, the candy poured in. In 3 days the students and teachers contributed 59 pounds of candy, which Trevor and other Scouts from his troop packaged into over 250 snack size bags. He delivered these to Cynthia Strasburg, affectionately known as Mama Cindy, who will ship them to service men and women around the world through her Hand to Hand~Heart to Heart Soldier Fund.

"SCOUTING FOR FOOD" AIDS LOCAL FOOD PANTRIES



Scouts and volunteer leaders from across the entire Iroquois Trail Council participated in the 28th annual "Scouting for Food" drive in November. The food collected is distributed to numerous emergency and crisis type agencies. All food collected in a district was distributed locally to agencies in that particular county.

The Council typically collects 30,000 food items per year.

As examples of how amazing this year's drive was, look at these totals from just a few of our units...

Troop 59 and Pack 62 were working together to cover the Clarendon/Holley area and delivered 1133 pieces of food items to the Eastern Orleans County Community Center in Holley.

Troop and Pack 4077 collected, sorted and donated 1100 food items to the Nunda food pantry.