Troop 100 Community Service

Service to our community of Northport, AL, is one of our top priorities as a troop. This month alone saw our boy and girl troops serving the community at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts, the Northport Police Department Fall Festival, and collecting canned goods for St. Mark’s Food Pantry (Scouting for Food.) That’s more than 60 hours of time given to our friends and neighbors!

Troop 100G trunk-or-treating at Northport Police Department’s Fall Festival. We gave candy to about 1200 children and invited their older siblings of scouting age to join us for a troop meeting to learn more about Scouts BSA. Can you see our campfire glowing in the trunk??? It was spooktacular!

Community service projects reminds us to keep our promise to cheerfully help others, to be friendly, and to “do a good turn daily.”

As we gear up for the holidays, we like to go Scouting for Food to help replenish the food pantry at St. Mark United Methodist Church. On Monday night, the boy troop put out 153 grocery bags on various streets in Northwood Lake. Saturday morning, the girl troop met to gather the bags of donated food. We collected 137 items. I think that giant can of pork-n-beans counts as 4.