The groups collected more than 15,000 pounds of food for MCFOODS.
Old Bridge High School Junior ROTC members PJ Czaplinski, Scott Kowalski and Zachary Huber load boxes of food for the Middlesex County Food Pantry. OLD BRIDGE --On Nov. 13 members of the Old Bridge High School Junior ROTC set up an assembly line to load the more than 10,000 pounds of nonperishable food they collected for the Middlesex County Food Organization and Outreach Distribution Pantry into the MCFOODS van to be taken to the food pantry.
The JROTC and area Boy Scouts spent two weeks collecting donations outside area grocery stores. The local Scouts collected another 4,800 pounds of food.
"We had 100 percent involvement," said retired Chief Master Sgt. Tom Pitzer, a program head for Old Bridge's Junior ROTC. "This gets these kids civic-minded and community involved."
"The Junior ROTC, it's really like a cornerstone of who we are at our high school," said Old Bridge High School principal Vincent Sasso. "This is one of the many things they do throughout the year to help."
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