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Troop 28 Sees Another Successful “Scouting
for Food” drive
Sean Greene (left) coordinated this year’s Scouting for Food drive for
Hebron’s Pack 28 Cub Scouts and Troop 28 Boy Scouts. He got a lot of
help from his brother Owen and other Troop 28 members in collecting
food for Hebron Interfaith Food Services.
Hebron’s Pack 28 Cub Scouts and Troop 28Boy Scouts witnessed
another successful campaign in this year’s “Scouting for Food” (SFF)
drive, resulting in 5,300 pounds of food donations for the Hebron
Interfaith Human Services (HIHS) Food Bank.
After many years of spearheading the event, Billy Czaja and Ross
Silberquit turned the organizational effort over to Sean Greene.
Greene is no stranger to the needs of the Food Bank. “I started my
HIHS work last fall, when I learned from newspaper stories that they
were running low on food,” said Greene. “I collected food every
week at the troop meetings, and brought the food to HIHS to stock
the shelves.”
“While I was doing this, I noticed that each week more and more
families needed to go to the food bank. This motivated me because
I didn’t want anybody to go hungry during the winter. After doing
this, and with the old leaders of SFF leaving, I just felt like I should
help out,” he continued.
A last minute opportunity to visit Israel had Greene turning the project
management of the
April 18 th event over to
Connor Sabia.
Hebron Troop 28 Boy Scout Leader Mark Sabia
and his son Connor stand next to some of the
donation bags delivered to HIHS Food Bank on
April 18. A total of 683 bags of food, valued
at between $8,000 and $10,000, were donated
by local residents.
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Sabia and his father,
Troop 28 Boy Scout
Leader Mark Sabia,
compiled the results
of the young men’s efforts.
In the space of
just six hours, 53 boys,
parents, and Scout
leaders drove around
town collecting 5,300
pounds of food, which
they then organized by
food type and placed
on the shelves.
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“We collected a total of 683 bags of food; the bags had been placed
on every mailbox in town by Pack 28 Cub Scouts the week before,”
Connor later reported. “We know there are about 2,200 households
in Hebron, so this means approximately 31% of all households in
Hebron contributed to our SFF effort. That’s just amazing.”
Connor took several sample bags of food, and estimated that the average
donation bag held items valued at between $12 and $15. “We feel
confident in saying that residents donated $8,000-$10,000 to HIHS
in just this one day, and we are so grateful,” he said.
“Hebron Scouts – aged
eleven to sixteen – organized
and ran the event
themselves,” said Mark
Sabia. “This service
provides them with invaluable
lessons in leadership,
responsibility,
and citizenship. The
effort and service provided
by the boys and
young men of Hebron
Pack 28 and Troop 28
is a source of great pride
to them in helping their
fellow residents.”
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Carolyn Aubin, whose three sons Will, Nick
and Parker have been active in Hebron Boy
Scouts, and Connor Sabia stock the HIHS Food
Bank shelves following this year’s successful
Scouting for Food drive. The young men collected
a total of 5,300 pounds of food.
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