{"id":69977,"date":"2021-04-24T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/scouting-for-food-helps-stock-local-food-pantries\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T10:30:00","slug":"scouting-for-food-helps-stock-local-food-pantries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/scouting-for-food-helps-stock-local-food-pantries\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting for Food helps stock local food pantries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juneau residents donated more than 9,000 pounds of food to local food pantries in April as part of the annual Scouting for Food event hosted by local Scouts BSA troops.<\/p>\n<p>The food drive was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic but was back in force this spring.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The event was a fantastic success,&rdquo; said Chris Schapp, manager of the Southeast Alaska Food Bank, in an email to Scout leaders that was shared with the Empire.<\/p>\n<p>Scouts distributed collection bags and flyers about the program throughout the week and circled back Saturday morning to collect canned goods and non-perishable donations and deliver them to the food bank.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeast Alaska Food Bank received 8,986 pounds, and an additional 562 pounds was donated to the food bank at Resurrection Lutheran Church.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Dana Zigmund at dana.zigmund@juneauempire.com or 907-308-4891.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Scouts collected more than 9,000 pounds of food <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":716,"featured_media":69978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-69977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69977"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=69977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}