Good Turn for America Goose Creek District
Scouting for Food News Flash
Revised November 12, 2007, 10:00am

On Saturday, November 10, we recorded 98,519.9 pounds of food.  On Sunday, units dropped off an additional 242.7 pounds, bringing our total to 98,762.6 pounds.  We may receive additional Scouting for Food deliveries at the Holiday Coalition on Monday, and I'll keep an updated tally on the web site.  On Monday night, I'll close the books on this year's food drive. 

I want to thank the entire Goose Creek District for an exceptional Scouting for Food drive. The combined efforts of all the participants are astonishing.  Once again, we were blessed with a dry day and very few glitches at the collection sites.  Hopefully, all the Scouts made it through the event safe and sound.   If anyone has a good photo or two they'd like to e-mail me of today's activities, I'd appreciate them.  I spent most of the day in fire-fighting mode, so I didn't take any pictures. 

In case anyone is wondering, last year the District collected 98,661 pounds of food.  So we're now 102 pounds ahead of last year's mark.  Our District's 25,534 pounds of food collections at LINK today broke the old record set in 2005.  Below are the weight totals (in pounds) by participating unit:

Unit No. Holiday Coalition LINK Messiah's Market Purcellville (Holiday Coalition) Unit Total Notes
Pack 39       2,406.2 2,406.2  
Pack 71 1,997.5       1,997.5  
Pack 282 1,149.6       1,149.6  
Pack 449     414.4   414.4  
Pack 572   2,628.0     2,628.0  
Pack 663 1,831.8       1,831.8  
Pack 905   1,810.4     1,810.4  
Pack 950   2,172.9     2,172.9  
Pack 951   2,533.4     2,533.4  
Pack 953       1,180.7 1,180.7  
Pack 954 1,003.8       1,003.8  
Pack 956   1,128.8      1,128.8  
Pack 958 4,759.1       4,759.1  
Pack 961       3,899.1 3,899.1  
Pack 962       1,656.1 1,656.1  
Pack 965 3,408.9       3,408.9  
Pack 969       2,154.3 2,154.3  
Pack 975       562.4 562.4  
Pack 982 1,364.9       1,364.9  
Pack 997 2,562.4       2,562.4  
Pack 998 3,184.5       3,184.5  
Pack 1106     1,389.3   1,389.3  
Pack 1148 1,319.6       1,319.6  
Pack 1151 2,020.3       2,020.3  
Pack 1152   3,739.1     3,739.1  
Pack 1154 2,363.7       2,363.7  
Pack 1155   819.3     819.3  
Pack 1156   404.0     404.0  
Pack 1157   2,328.5     2,328.5  
Pack 1158 2,109.8   1,265.2   3,375.0  
Pack 1159 1,001.7       1,001.7  
Pack 1162       2,815.5 2,815.5  
Pack 1167     417.0   417.0  
Pack 1168 478.2       478.2  
Pack 1173 38.5       38.5  
Pack 1483 4,408.3       4,408.3  
Pack 1484 3,460.2       3,460.2  
Pack 1490 185.5       185.5  
Pack 1550 4,303.4       4,303.4  
Pack 1576 588.7       588.7  
Pack 1666 1,843.8       1,843.8  
Pack 2010 714.4       714.4  
Troop 39     32.0   32.0 Staffing Messiah's Market
Troop 163       641.5 641.5 Staffing Purcellville Collection Site
Troop 572   1,991.5     1,991.5  
Troop 663           With Pack 663
Troop 711       43.7 43.7 Staffing Purcellville Collection Site
Troop 761 150.5       150.5 Sorting at Holiday Coalition
Troop 950   798.3     798.3  
Troop 953           With Pack 953
Troop 956     1351.5   1,351.5  
Troop 961           Staffing Holiday Coalition
Troop 962       205.7 205.7 Also Sorting at Purcellville Collection Site
Troop 966   629.5     629.5  
Troop 969       1,547.6 1,547.6  
Troop 970   3,238.6     3,238.6  
Troop 982 1,225.4       1,225.4  
Troop 997           Staffing Holiday Coalition
Troop 998 1,544.0       1,544.0  
Troop 1106           With Pack 1106
Troop 1154 1,433.7       1,433.7  
Troop 1158   28.3     28.3 Staffing LINK
Troop 1159   678.1     678.1  
Troop 1167           With Pack 1167
Troop 1168           With Pack 1168
Troop 1173           With Pack 1173
Troop 1430 794.3       794.3 Partnered with Pack 1148; Sorting at Holiday Coalition
Troop 1550           Sorting at Holiday Coalition
Troop 1576           With Pack 1576
Troop 1910   605.2     605.2  
OA Chapter           Staffing LINK
Grand Total 51,246.5 25,533.9 4,869.4 17,112.8 98,762.6  

 

Good Turn for America Web Site and NCAC Reporting

After Scouting for Food is over, please add your pack or troop's service project information into the Good Turn for America web site.  If your unit has not used this site, please see our local instructions.  You'll need an estimate of the number of service hours worked as well as the amount of food collected.  Last year the web site asked for the number of food items collected in addition to the number of hours, but I recommend you enter the number of pounds, rather than the number of items collected. 

This year our Council has asked the participating units to enter their Scouting for Food results into the Council web site at the following location:  https://secure.boyscouts-ncac.org/Registration/CalendarDetail.asp?ActivityKey=325154&OrgKey=370&returnurl=http://www.boyscouts-ncac.org.  The Council appreciates your efforts to make the food drive a success.  They will use the data you submit in their media promotions. 

As always, if you want to discuss any aspect of Scouting for Food, please give me a call at  703-405-6341 (cell), or send me e-mail at brian.shiflett@verizon.net. 

Yours in Scouting,

Brian Shiflett
Scouting for Food Coordinator, Goose Creek District