MOSCOW, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The North Pocono Public Library is bringing five local municipalities together for a friendly competition that aims to fight food insecurity through its first-ever Scarecrow Showdown.<\/p>\n
Organized by the library’s Community Advisory Council, the competition features five scarecrows, each designed by a participating municipality. Participants include Clifton Township, Jefferson Township, Moscow Borough, Roaring Brook Township and Thornhurst Township.<\/p>\n
Community members can vote for their favorite scarecrow by donating nonperishable food items. Each item earns one ticket, which can be placed in the ballot box of their choosing.<\/p>\n
Joy Monroe, executive director of the library, said the Scarecrow Showdown builds on the library’s existing relationship with the local food pantry, expanding its efforts to support the community.<\/p>\n
“The community loves it. We see people walking by all the time, and they stop and look at them. The next time they’re here, they usually bring in some food so they can do the voting themselves. So it’s been very positive. I think it’s important, first of all, that they see we’re a library that gives back to the community. It also gives the community a chance to participate in whatever we’re doing here,” said Monroe.<\/p>\n
The library is accepting nonperishable food donations, including canned fruits, vegetables and pasta. All donations will go to the North Pocono Dry Goods Pantry, which also receives fresh produce from the library’s garden during the summer.<\/p>\n
Monroe added that two large collection bins have already been filled with food donations since the competition began around the last week of September.<\/p>\n
The contest runs through Halloween, when votes will be counted and the winning municipality will earn a trophy and bragging rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOSCOW, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The North Pocono Public Library is bringing five local municipalities together for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-306874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}