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Kenworth Truck Employees Donate One Ton of Food

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Kenworth Trucks NewsKIRKLAND, Wash., Dec. 17, 2012 – In the spirit of the holiday season, Kenworth employees at the company’s headquarters in Kirkland, Wash., recently conducted a food drive that resulted in a donation of nearly 7,500 lbs. of food to Northwest Harvest.

“It was a very generous effort by Kenworth employees to help aid the less fortunate in Washington state during this holiday season,” said Matt Brynildson, Kenworth human resources director. “We appreciate the caring spirit of our employees and the leadership of our nine food drive teams, who helped encourage contributions through a friendly competition.”

Kenworth employees are shown with some of the nearly 7,500 lbs. of food donated by the company to Northwest Harvest in Washington state during a recent holiday food drive organized by employees.

After employees helped load all the food into one of the company’s Kenworth T270 medium duty trucks, the T270 was driven to Northwest Harvest warehouse in Kent, Wash., to make the delivery.

According to Northwest Harvest, the organization is the only non-profit food bank distributor operating statewide in Washington with a network of more than 350 food banks, meal programs and high-need schools. Northwest Harvest provides over 1.7 million meals every month to this network. All of its food and operating funds come from individuals, businesses, foundations and other organizations, and 92 percent of its total budget goes to food distribution. For more information, visit NorthwestHarvest.org.

Kenworth Trucks Northwest Harvest Food Drive 2012

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