Project Keep Kids Warm - Part 3

Our Scouts continued their service project to help "Keep Kids Warm" this morning by hitting the streets and picking up bags of winter clothing that donors left on their doorsteps.

Gary hits it big

Pickup day is always much easier than bag distribution day. With pickups, volunteers need only slowly cruise their route searching for bags stuffed with donations left on doorsteps.

Perhaps one in seven residences donated winter clothing this year, but collecting clothing is only half the project. The other half is to get these items out to people who need them. So even though most bags we distributed remained unfilled, they still served a purpose - to get the word out that warm winter wear will be available next week.

Sure, one in seven doesn't sound like a lot, but we hung bags on nearly seven thousand doors, so we may see a thousand donations. This means that our Scouts will be called once again into action to help set up tables at the Armory and sort through the donations by gender and size.