The Popcorn Scholar, Year II

I've really been happy to see how Avery's writing skills have improved since we started his blog, The Popcorn Scholar, together. He now seems better able to come up with topics to write about as well as tie it all into a point he wants to make. Not bad for a ten-year-old.

Well, we're now in year number 2 of our effort. Last year we raised about $250 to buy popcorn to be donated to troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan. This actually bought a fair amount of popcorn, but it was about 10% of our overall goal. All of that came from family or family friends, but some of it came from remote areas that we wouldn't have been able to access had it not been for the Tip Jar made available by Typepad.

Although it looks like he hasn't posted in awhile, I actually have a stack of postings from last year that he wrote down for me to type, but I let too much time pass before recording them digitally. They were topical and are no longer relevant, so we will start anew to coincide with our first pack meeting on Thursday.

Apparently this idea has legs. I'm not saying we had anything to do with it (after all, how could we?), the new printed order form the Boy Scouts gave us actually has a place for people to donate $25 worth of popcorn to the military and their families.

If we really do raise as much as we'd like to raise, we'll have too much popcorn to distribute in a single visit to the airport, so this option made available to the scouts helps us solve that problem while at the same time distribute your kind donations to troops other than those who come through our local airport.

Please consider supporting our troops and the Boy Scouts of America by blogging about the effort or donating here.

- Cam Beck