2013 Fall Food Drive

This year’s food drive was the best yet. The neighborhood along with the students of Kennydale Elementary School donated approximately 3,597 items to Renton’s Center of Hope. Thanks to all of you, Center of Hope is now able to feed their current families and families that have recently found housing. Linda Smith, the Center of Hope’s lead director, said “the food drive is such a blessing and will help save our budget for other expenses”. The Center of Hope’s budget is solely based on donations from the community. Before the food drive, the Center of Hope had to ration their food supply and couldn't allow day center clients to take food with them at the end of each day. Because of the donations from our neighborhood, the Center of Hope is overflowing with food and joy just in time for the Holidays. We want to give a big thank you to Mrs. Hettinger’s 4th grade class for donating the most items in the entire school; for their hard work, they received a pizza party donated by KNA and the Kennydale Elementary PTA! We would also like to thank the many volunteers that helped with the transportation and counting of the food. We are proud of our neighborhood and can’t wait for next year’s food drive.

Cecelia Sanchez, KNA Board Member and Food Drive Chairman