2012 is the twenty-eighth year, Boy Scout Troop #112 has coordinated a Holiday Food and Gift Basket program in
Glide.   Each year hundreds of community members are gifted with baskets filled with food, gifts, and lots of care.  


Boy Scout Troop 112
Glide, Oregon
2012


 
Though the Scouts ramrod this event, countless community members join in the effort.  Honor Society students from Glide High School, volunteers from Helping Hands Food Pantry, and dozens of caring citizens give of their time, talent, and financial resources.  Tons of food items are donated by caring community members and more are purchased with donated money.  Names from the Angel Tree  are picked up and Christmas presents are delivered. 

It is truly inspiring  how this community rallies behind this project.  Neighbors reaching out to help neighbors.

This year was a first.  The scout master, Stu Carlson, had promised the troop if $25,000 could be raised for the project, he would dye his beard red, white, and blue.  They passed that mark with flying colors.  He the guy sitting in the center of the bottom row.  He is a man of few words, but when he says he will do something, you can count on it.

Here is a list of  items that were included in the food baskets:
turkey or chicken, ham, hamburger patties, milk, eggs, orange juice, margarine, cheese, pancake mix & syrup, canned soup, chili,
cooking oil, stuffing mix, tuna, peanut butter, jelly, bread, cranberry sauce, instant oatmeal, canned fruit, canned vegetables, mayonnaise, ketchup, potatoes, onions, carrots, oranges, apples, bananas, fig Newton's. paper towels, dish soap & sponges, toilet paper, toothpaste, toothbrushes

 
Here is a pictorial recap of this year's event.

Thursday night the empty boxes are labeled and set out.

 
Friday morning the donated food items are sorted into categories for easier distribution.


Some of the Honor Society girls begin bagging fresh produce into individual bags.   Hundreds and hundreds of apples, oranges, and onions are bagged.
 
All of that produce has to get moved from the front of the stage to the rear.
 
  

Now it's time to start filling the boxes.
 
Everybody gets into the action of distributing goodies into the boxes - peanut butter, tooth brushes, carrots . . . .   


Got to get it packed as tightly, need a little more room

WOW! 
All done, at least for today.

 Santa has already made a delivered to Helping Hands.

Saturday morning, Stu gives everybody instructions for the day. 
# 1 on the list is to be safe.  # 2 is to enjoy the day and have fun.
   

Time to haul the boxes out to the cars.

Everybody fills their carts.

It just barely fits!

Now it's time to add the perishables -
milk, eggs, cheese, turkey . . .


Piling it on.

That is one HEAVY box.

A man that enjoys his work.


Down to the home stretch.
Just a few more boxes to go.




See the entire day in less than a minute!