BOY SCOUTS PLAN CAMPAIGN BLITZ DAY HERE ON THURSDAY

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- On Thursday, about 50 Boy Scouting volunteers will visit Cape Girardeau businesses soliciting contribution's for Friends of Scouting.

Paul Potthoff, Boy Scouts Shawnee district finance chairman, and John Mehner, Cape Girardeau community captain, are organizing the blitz day.

"A large portion of the income of the Boy Scouts' activities comes from Friends of Scouting," Potthoff said.

Contributors to Friends of Scouting receive recognition for different levels of giving.

Pottoff said the blitz will last just one day. "We're trying to raise $22,000," he said.

Friends of Scouting makes up 21 percent of the district's budget, the largest portion except for popcorn sales, which raises 31 percent of the budget, he said.

Other Friends of Scouting blitz days are planned in Perryville, Scott City, Advance, Jackson, Marble Hill and Fredericktown.