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Albuquerque Scouts step out for 'Scouting For Food' drive

Pack 409 collecting canned food and ramen noodles for Storehouse NM

Albuquerque Scouts step out for 'Scouting For Food' drive

Pack 409 collecting canned food and ramen noodles for Storehouse NM

14 AND TEN OVERALL. THE BOY SCOUTS DOING THEIR PART TODAY, HELPING THOSE IN NEED. IT’S PART OF THEIR ANNUAL SCOUTING FOR FOOD EVENT, HELPING OUR COMMUNITY DURING THE COLD WINTER MONTHS. SCOUTS AROUND THE COUNTRY WORKING TOGETHER FOR MORE THAN 30 YEARS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. THE SKILLS THESE KIDS ARE LEARNING IS HOW TO BE OUTGOING. HOW TO YOU ASK PEOPLE FOR DONATIONS. SO AS THEY’RE DOING THIS, GETTING THAT EXPERIENCE AND EXPOSURE, IT’S A GREAT TIME. IF YOU MISSED TODAY, DON’T WORRY, OUR SCOUTS WILL BE BACK OUT THERE TOMORROW FROM 9 TO 5. JUST DROP BY T
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Albuquerque Scouts step out for 'Scouting For Food' drive

Pack 409 collecting canned food and ramen noodles for Storehouse NM

If you're out and about grocery shopping this weekend, you might just get asked by some Cub Scouts to donate food to feed those who need it.Here in Albuquerque, Cub Scout Pack 409 was one of eight "units" participating in the "Scouting For Food" drive, a nationwide service project for Scouts BSA. The donated food is going to Storehouse NM, a nonprofit based in New Mexico."It's great to be back and to see the generosity of Albuquerque people," said Randy Reed, committee chair of Pack 104 and one of the event's local organizer. "The skills the kids are learning are show how to be outgoing, how to ask people for donations. It can be very hard."A highly motivated group of Scouts were outside an Albertsons grocery store at Academy and Tramway Boulevard early Saturday, where KOAT asked them how things were going."Good," said one of them. "We basically walk up to people and ask them if they're gonna donate food."Is that easy to do?"It's a little scary to walk up to some stranger and ask them to donate food for you," another one said, but they all agreed that people had been nice.What sort of food had they been getting?"So far, canned soups, canned meat and ramen noodles, and canned other stuff. But we don't get glass and freshly frozen foods," another member of the group said."There was one glass peanut butter chair," another scout said.The Cub Scouts will be out there asking for donated food Sunday, if anybody else has questions

If you're out and about grocery shopping this weekend, you might just get asked by some Cub Scouts to donate food to feed those who need it.

Here in Albuquerque, Cub Scout Pack 409 was one of eight "units" participating in the "Scouting For Food" drive, a nationwide service project for Scouts BSA. The donated food is going to Storehouse NM, a nonprofit based in New Mexico.

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"It's great to be back and to see the generosity of Albuquerque people," said Randy Reed, committee chair of Pack 104 and one of the event's local organizer. "The skills the kids are learning are show how to be outgoing, how to ask people for donations. It can be very hard."

A highly motivated group of Scouts were outside an Albertsons grocery store at Academy and Tramway Boulevard early Saturday, where KOAT asked them how things were going.

"Good," said one of them. "We basically walk up to people and ask them if they're gonna donate food."

Is that easy to do?

"It's a little scary to walk up to some stranger and ask them to donate food for you," another one said, but they all agreed that people had been nice.

What sort of food had they been getting?

"So far, canned soups, canned meat and ramen noodles, and canned other stuff. But we don't get glass and freshly frozen foods," another member of the group said.

"There was one glass peanut butter chair," another scout said.

The Cub Scouts will be out there asking for donated food Sunday, if anybody else has questions