Reporter staff
Auburn Youth Resources teamed up with business and community leaders in a massive food drive this holiday season.
Oldcastle Precast Manufacturing and ICON Materials competed to see which company could bring in the most food and donations for AYR client families for the holidays.
The 12th annual Oldcastle Precast Food Drive for AYR collected 8,180 pounds of food and cash donations of more than $1,700.
Volunteers from both companies, AYR and ACAP staff and other supporters converged at the distribution site, First United Methodist Church, on Nov. 27 to help organize, stock and distribute food to needy families.
“Each year we at AYR have the good fortune of being the beneficiary of a food drive, which has been, and again (was), coordinated by Oldcastle Precast, with the addition of ICON Materials this year,” said Tiari DeGraw, AYR case manager and client event coordinator. “It has been an incredible team and community building event annually for several years and supports AYR client families.”
The drive has grown in recent years, collecting more than 980 pounds of food in 2009 and receiving more than 3,200 pounds of food last year for AYR client families.
Way Scarff provided the truck to transport the food this year.
=====
Supported by:
Vendors who donated
Ace Galvanizing
Airgas
American Steel
Ash Grove
Bennett Stamping
Cascade Steel
Cintas
Crane Repair Service
D&L Supply
Davis Wire
East Jordan Iron Works
Elliot Sales
ELM
Farwest Steel
Facet
Gardner Asphalt
Girard Wood Products
Grace Construction
Grating Pacific
Grainger
Hickle Construction
Image Masters
LaFarge
Lou’s Welding
Marine Lumber
Miles
NLM
Nucor Steel
Pacific Wire
Pacific Welding
Pape
Penninsula Precast Delivery
Pete’s Dairy
Platt
Pozzi
Precast Cons. Ind.
Rasmussen Wire Rope
Snider Petroleum
Stud Welding Product
TOTE
Tyler Industries
V. VanDyke
Valley Nut and Bolt
Washington State
Western Coating
White Cap
Thom Dramer
History:
Oldcastle Precast AYR Thanksgiving Program Requests
2009 = 54 Families / 236 people
2010 = 63 Families / 285 people
2011 = 97 Families / 436 people
2012 = 109 Families
2013 = 120+ Families / 496+ people
