Local Scouts will be collecting food Saturday morning as part of their Scouting for Food drive, the single largest one-day food drive in the nation.

Anyone who received a Yellow Door Hanger last week should place their donations by or on their front door by 9 a.m. Scouts who left the door hanger will collect the food to take to a local food pantry. A Hardees’s coupon is included as a gift from the Scouting for Food sponsor, Boddie-Noell Enterprises Inc.

Community service begins at an early age for Scouts. For first-grade boys as Tiger Cubs, Scouting for Food could be the first time they learn to give back to their community. Community service is a constant throughout a Scout’s career, culminating for many boys with an Eagle Scout project that makes a lasting impact on the community in which they live.

Scouts in the East Carolina Council have collected more than 80,000 pounds of food items for distribution to agencies in 20 Eastern North Carolina counties east of Interstate 95. Scouting for Food is part of the national “Good Turn for America.”

To learn more about the Boy Scouts of America, call 252-522-1521 or visit the website at www.eccbsa.org.