CHESTER — Boy Scouts from Chester and their leaders were kept busy recently sorting some 4,600 food items collected at this year’s Boy Scouts “Scouting for Food” project.
The “Scouting for Food” donations come just at the right time prior to the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays. Photo by Bob Koenegstein.
This annual project has been conducted by scouts across America for decades and helps provide much needed food for the hungry.
Brayden Cates (foreground) and Levi Caldwell (background) unload bags of food items collected by the 2021 Chester Area Boy Scouts “Scouting for Food” project. Bob Koenegstein Photo
The items collected by the Chester Boys Scouts are always donated to the Chester Area Christian Food Pantry.
Members of the Chester Boy Scouts stand in front of the 4600 food items collected via the 2021 Annual Boy Scout food drive. Photo provided by Bob Koenegstein
Each year the Scouts deliver blue plastic food collection bags across the City of Chester two weeks before Thanksgiving. Citizens fill the bags and put them on their front porches to be collected by the Scouts the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
The bags are then taken to Grace Church in Chester where they are sorted into containers of “like” items and taken to the food pantry.