Boy scouts were collecting for charity on Saturday.- FILED UNDER
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Columbia, SC (WLTX) - You may have noticed a plastic grocery bag tied to your mailbox in the past couple of weeks.
Tiger Scouts and Boy Scouts of America have been working to feed the underprivledged in the community.
Strong youth, strong values, and strong community, it's this years theme for the Boy Scouts of America.
"Well we get to do big boy stuff, and we get to go swimming, hiking, and camping," said Cameron."We're walking door to door looking for bags to pick up and put in the wagon."
After they put out bags last weekend, the tiger cubs are walking door to door to pick them back up, now full of canned goods
Scout master Steven Padgett says that not only is a great lesson for his scouts, but a great way to help those less fortunate.
"We've come through these same neighborhoods and had families be very generous donating food to local food banks. Once again we're just very thankful and blessed to help a few others in the community," said Padgett. "There's no reason for a person to go hungry and if we can participate in a small way and help raise food for the local food banks then that's what we'll do as cub scouts."
So with every step and every new grocery bag picked up. This group of scouts are keeping with the theme, doing "big boy stuff", serving their community.
"One of the principals of scouts is to help our neighbors so this is one way we can help those who are less fortunate," said Padgett.
Pack 200 estimates they collected around 10,000 items of food in the past week.
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