On Saturday Nov. 4, Falls Church-area Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts will walk through neighborhoods to distribute plastic bags for food donations as part of the annual Scouting for Food drive to benefit local food pantries. Scouts will return the following Saturday morning, Nov. 11, to collect the bags with food donations that residents set outside their front doors before 9 a.m. that day. Scouts will not enter buildings to distribute bags, but residents of apartments and condominium buildings can deliver food donations to the parking lot of Falls Church Presbyterian Church (225 E. Broad St., Falls Church) between 9 – 10a.m. on Nov. 11.

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BY JOHN F. CROWNOVER Every eight hours, Virginia loses someone to suicide. In 2023, 1,230 Virginians died by suicide, and nearly four out of five were men. They were fathers,


