Scouts Team Up with Blessings in a Backpack Food Program

Story by Cheryl Northern

A big tip of the hat to the members of Den 2, Cub Scout Pack 628 for their recent assistance supporting a local community service program here in the Denver area called Blessings in a Backpack.

On November 30, the members of the Den, with assistance from their parents, helped assemble three hundred bags of food for the Blessings in a Backpack program that supports Eastridge, Ponderosa, and Highline Elementary Schools in Aurora as well as two schools in Lakewood; Deane and South Lakewood Elementary. The Cubs worked quickly to fill each bag for a needy student with kid-friendly foodstuffs to be taken home and consumed over the weekend when the students would not otherwise have access to the school meal program.

Total assemble time was less than one-hour, and the Cubs were able to use plastic grocery sacks that they had previously collected as part of a recycling project.

“Helping provide their peers with good food to eat while also keeping plastic bags out of the landfills is a win-win,” said Laura Lingle, Den Leader for the Cubs. “I am hopeful that this project will be an inspiration to other Packs and Troops as a way to help their communities, “Laura said.

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