Bring your chairs and some food to give at the Dunwoody 4th of July parade! Once again Boy Scout Troop 764 of St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church in Dunwoody will be holding their rolling food drive along the parade route to help stomp out hunger in our community!
This year the parade will take place on MONDAY, JULY 5, 2021.
Look for the boy scouts pushing grocery carts along the parade route to make your donation to the Community Assistance Center (CAC) food pantry. Troop 764 collects food for CAC every year in their parade food drive. The troop also plans to enter a scouting themed float in the parade.
In 2019 the scouts collected about 400 pounds of food from parade-goers. Following the parade they load the food into SUVs and bring it to CAC. Donations help prevent hunger among families and individuals of Dunwoody and Sandy Springs.
The CAC Food Pantry provides food to more than 500 families a month. Most of the families CAC helps are working families who are experiencing a difficult time due to job loss or wage cuts. The scouts’ tradition of collecting food at the parade is a welcome donation at CAC each summer when donations typically decline. Requests for food are higher in the summer months when children who receive free meals at school are home. In Dunwoody almost 20 percent of public school students qualify for the federal lunch program and in Sandy Springs 50 percent qualify, meaning those kids can eat at school twice a day for free.
Most needed items to help feed local families include canned meats such as tuna and chicken, canned pastas, canned or packaged fruit, cereal and rice.
So bring your food donations and look for the boy scouts with their parade float and shopping carts!