Above: Southborough Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts will team up again with BSA Scouts for their annual Scouting for Food program in November. (images from flyer and photo by Susan Fitzgerald)
I’m reminding readers that this Saturday morning is the annual town-wide collection drive to support the Southborough Food Pantry.
[Editor’s Note: You can read about the many families that the Southborough Food Pantry is supporting here.]
Over this past weekend, Scouts/volunteers were hanging bags with flyers on doorknobs in neighborhoods all around town. But they likely couldn’t reach every door.
If you received a bag, and can afford to help, organizers are asking you to fill bags with food donations, and place them next to your mailboxes on the morning of Saturday, November 14th before 9:00 am. That’s when volunteers will be making the rounds to scout out and pick up the donations.
If you didn’t get a bag or notice, you can still participate by dropping off your donation at Pilgrim Church between 9:00 am and noon that morning.
The collection drive flyer promotes that items that would make the biggest difference for the pantry “right now” are:
grocery store gift cards
canned salmon
canned meats (chicken, Spam)
solid white tuna
minced clams
corned beef hash
Ritz crackers
Chips Ahoy cookies
Oreos
olives (green, black)
pickles (sweet, dill)
mayonnaise
olive oil
coffee (regular, decaf, instant)
pasta sauce in jars
V8 juice
Capri Sun
shampoo & conditioner
toothpaste (adult)
paper towels
napkins
toilet paper
plastic bags (sandwich, quart, gallon)
plastic wrap, aluminum foil
all-purpose cleaner
liquid hand soap
laundry & dish detergent
13-gallon trash bags
For food and condiments, please remember to check the expiration dates before you donate. (Also, note that while it’s fine to donate multi-packs, please don’t donate jumbo/commercial-sized items, like giant jars.)
If you’d prefer to donate funds directly to the food pantry, click here (or text sff2026 to 508-290-6004).
