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Sikeston Standard Democrat

Scouting for food

Monday, November 17, 2014
Jill Bock, Staffi

Sikeston Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts worked together on Saturday to collect food for the Good Neighbor Food Pantry on Kingshighway in Sikeston. The community donated 5,773 pounds of food which the Scouts collected and will be distributed to the hungry.

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    Sikeston Boy Scout Danny Hicks hands bags of food back to Jackson Clay.
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    Evan Boyd hands bags down to waiting Scouts and leaders who then took the bags inside the Good Neighbor Food Pantry on Saturday.
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    Scout Ty Folsom uses two hands to move a bag filled with canned goods donated by a Sikeston resident.
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    Scouts were busy throughout Saturday morning collecting food to be used to feed the hungry.
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    Once canned goods were weighed they were sorted by the Scouts, who went about their work with enthusiasm.
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    Scout Alex Jackson unloads cans of green beans donated to the Scouting for Food campaign.
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    Aden Cox helps fill boxes with canned corn.
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    Jim Roth, right, volunteer with there Good Neighbor Food Pantry helps Cristian Evans, left, and Evan Boyd fill a box with canned green beans. Roth describe the Scouts as a "good group" noting they not only collected 5,733 pounds of food for the pantry, they also pitched in with the organizing and boxing of the food which will then be used to feed the hungry.