Nov. 20, Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts from Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto participated in their annual “Scouting for Food” event, a benefit for Second Harvest Food Bank.

This year’s collection, one of the largest ever, brought in more than 20 tons of food.

The Scouts canvassed local neighborhoods, going door to door in many cases to collect the donations.

Phillip Casey Lyman, who practiced law in Los Altos, was appointed a federal administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration.

Lyman graduated from Orangeburg High School, S.C., in 1966.

He began his college studies at Wolford College in Spartansburg, S.C., and transferred to Stanford University in 1970.