By CAROLYN MACDONELL
White Rock

Today is LA Cares’ food drive. I placed my two bags out by the mail box about 9am, but kept an eye on the weather. When I did errands earlier, I saw similar bags outside of many mailboxes … BUT where are the Boy Scouts this year, picking up the food???? I had to bring my food donations inside when it started to rain. 

Then I drove to Smith’s to drop off my donations, but no Boy Scouts inside the entry at Smith’s. I had to ask a White Rock Smith’s worker where were donations being collected … there were two carts outside the west entrance, luckily, under cover, with a sign on them. REALLY Los Alamos/White Rock????? Is this the best you can do????

Why couldn’t each Boy Scout pick up the bags in their own neighborhood, and maybe a few streets more??? Makes sense to me, if there isn’t going to be a truck driving around to pick up the donations.  

I wonder how many food items were ruined because of the rain. If I had waited for the mail carrier, my boxes of cereal, muffin mix, and stuffing would have been ruined. The Post Office is short staffed as it is, without them having to pick up the donations.

I am very disappointed in the people of our county … do you realize that most of the volunteers in the county are the retired? Why can’t younger families step up to the plate occasionally? The only people I see pick up trash coming into White Rock, are the older members of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church. Where are the younger members??? 

These are just two instances of not enough volunteers. Don’t you care about our county? Our two towns? What a shame….