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Hello All:
I will have all of the bags for Pack 34 by this Wednesday evening, around 8:00. One representative from each Den should come by my house on Thursday or Friday, to get the bags, fliers and the street maps for your Den. Alternatively, you may come to the Park School parking lot on Saturday at 10:00 a.m. sharp. At that time and place, I will be meeting with the members of the Cobra Patrol (2nd Year Webelos) and parents to start distributing bags in their assigned neighborhood, and will have with me all bags, fliers and maps for the other Dens that have not claimed them yet. If you are late and miss me, please call on my cell phone.
For those new at this, please have the boys place the bags securely on the doorknob, behind the front screen door, under a corner of the mat or, if the gate is locked or a dog is in the yard, on the gate latch or over a picket. Please do not put them in or over the mail box, as the USPS does not like that. The fliers can be handed out to people who you encounter, but in my experience leaving the fliers with every bag is unnecessary and leaves a lot of litter when they blow away. The same message is printed on the bags. Similarly, I have found that if the bags are opened, they fill with air and can blow off the knob, gate, etc. I try to encourage the boys to leave them flat, and only open the handle portion as necessary to hook it on. This technique also makes the message on the bag more apparent and legible, and makes it look less like a stray grocery bag to be tossed in the garbage if the homeowner finds it blowing around in the yard or on the porch. Alas, I also recognize that the joy from playing with the bags “kite style” while running is often irresistable.
Boy Scout Troop 1 will be transporting all the food up to the foodbank on 11/15. You should have all food to Scout Hall by 2:00 pm, back door.
Please encourage the boys to knock on doors if there is no food placed outside. Many people will have just forgotten, and great harvests can be gathered with a little extra effort. If you have any bags left over from the week before, you can take them along for this purpose, but any grocery bag works. Teach the boys that “I lost the bag” is not an acceptable excuse for not contributing something, but it is a game of percentages, and striking out with any one homeowner is no reason to become dejected. A few years ago, one pleasant lady who “forgot to go shopping” and tried out other half-hearted excuses generously gave $20 for me to go shopping for her, and I purchased two bags of food with it!
I hope I have covered it all. Call or write back with any questions. Make sure the message gets out to all of your scouts and parents ASAP. Check with Kerry if you have questions about community service segments (e.g., should the scout have to participate both weekends in order to earn it?). Good luck.
John M. Spilman
Posted by dladuke at November 5, 2003 09:40 PM