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| Volume 1, No. 2 | December 11, 2019 | ||
The Walk & KnockerA quarterly newsletter for the Walk & Knock Family |
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Greetings! A quick update as we’re now just two weeks from our Dec. 7 Drive Day. |
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BAG FOLDING Bag folding went really well this year. More than 500 people folded 130,000 bags in a record 3 1/2 hours Saturday at the Clark County Food Bank. Thanks to all! And a big thanks to the Food Bank for turning over their warehouse, setting up tables and delivering our folded bags to the newspapers. |
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Updates IsabellaIt gives me great pleasure to introduce our new social media coordinator, Isabella Guetter. She comes to us from our good friend Dr. Dene Grigar at WSUV who described her as “whip-smart, charming and hard-working.” She’s all of that and giving us a robust profile on FaceBook, Instagram and Twitter. Help us out by following Walk & Knock on FaceBook and sharing Isabella’s postings with your friends. Same for Instagram and Twitter. The wider we spread our message, the more volunteers we get! Bag Droppings For the third year, we are paying high school students to drop W&K bags on doorsteps. They earn money for their teams and clubs while we reap greater donations. This year we add the Fort Vancouver High sector to the Hudson’s Bay and Columbia River sectors. It takes a lot of work to coordinate, and I salute Janet Elliott, Joe Pauletto and Brian Rerick for making this happen. Bag Distributions As before, The Columbian, Reflector and Camas Post-Record will be delivering our bags to subscribers. Some people will get them in The Columbian’s “freebie.” And we mail 30,000 bags to those who otherwise wouldn’t get one. Thanks to our title sponsors’ Riverview Community Bank and Cost Less Auto Parts for sponsoring those mailings this year. We are the Champions! You’ll hear this a lot from me because I’m so darn proud of it: We are the nation’s largest, one-day, community food drive! As we celebrate our 35th anniversary, we should look back to our tremendous growth from 84,000 pounds collected in 1985 to last year’s 283,000 pounds. And it’s all done by you – volunteers – no paid staff. Wear those red jackets and caps proudly! |
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Your BoardOfficers this year are:Tom Knappenberger, President Adam Hegewald, First VP, Operations Janet Elliott, Second VP, Volunteers Jennifer Small, Treasurer Kay Hust, Secretary Justin Wood, Past President Joe Pauletto, Board Member James Fitzgerald, Board Member Bill Lundin, Board Member Jeff Fish, Board Member 
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 All for now. Keep recruiting, keep talking us up and keep having fun!Tom Knappenberger, Walk & Knock President |
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