Food Drive

Torklift Central employee Kerstin Stokes, Camico Rivon, assistant director of the Kent Food Bank and Jeniece Choate, executive director of the Kent Food Bank sort through donations collected during the Kent Turkey Challenge at the Kent Food Bank. Oct. 7 to Nov. 18 marked our annual Thanksgiving food drive, the Annual Kent Turkey Challenge which was celebrating nine years...

During the holiday’s many of us sit down to share a warm Thanksgiving meal with our families and friends while hundreds of families in our community stand in lines in the hopes of getting food from the Kent Food Bank. Bundled up against the cold and waiting for the doors to open, these families are filled with an optimism that...

Torklift Central Owner Jack Kay helped with dropping off the food donations Oct. 12 to Nov. 15 marked our annual holiday food drive, the Annual Kent Turkey Challenge which was celebrating seven years of supporting the Kent Food Bank. Now that the challenge has officially concluded, we wanted to say thank you to all the businesses and people who...

The 5th Annual Kent Turkey Challenge is a community effort to help support the Kent Food Bank during the Thanksgiving holiday. By challenging local businesses and organizations to a friendly competition of collecting and raising the most food and monetary donations, our community is able to provide support to those in need. Going strong for its fifth year, the Kent...

Total donations to the 4th Annual Kent Turkey Challenge topped 10,800 pounds of food and $22,500 in donations, filling the Kent Food Bank from wall to wall with pallets of donated food this Thanksgiving.
City of Kent Mayor Suzette CookeLocal businesses, schools, and community organizations came together and shared in celebration of the amazing benefit the food drive made to the...

A long line of hopeful people from all walks of life formed outside the Kent Food Bank two days before Thanksgiving.  As the rain fell, small groups continued to join the crowd, making their way in the front doors where they waited for hours.Once inside, they were given tickets to identify how many people in their family would be accounted...

 At the time this blog is being written, third party administrator for workers’ compensation Eberle Vivian has collected $1,000 for the 4th Annual Kent Turkey Challenge.  That’s already enough to fund the purchase of 100 turkey’s for donation to the Kent Food Bank this Thanksgiving. But Eberle Vivian is just getting started.   Eberle Vivian’s ownership will match all funds donated...

The 4th Annual Kent Turkey Challenge now has a unique opportunity to collect donations from travelers that hail from far beyond Washington State.  With the Seattle/Tacoma KOA supporting the Challenge, visitors to the Northwest can help us fight hunger this Thanksgiving in Kent. Situated just minutes from all the tourist attractions of downtown Seattle at 5801 South 212th StreetKent, Wash...