{"id":25481,"date":"2016-12-23T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/opinion\/thanks-to-those-who-supported-kent-turkey-challenge\/"},"modified":"2016-12-23T10:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T18:30:00","slug":"thanks-to-those-who-supported-kent-turkey-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/thanks-to-those-who-supported-kent-turkey-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to those who supported Kent Turkey Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to humbly thank the community and all the participants who donated to, and supported the sixth annual Kent Turkey Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you Ilovekent.net and the Kent Reporter for publishing the information for the Kent Turkey Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the many organizations who donated, including top donors Ski&rsquo;s Painting; Eberle Vivian; Shannon and Associates; Kent United Methodist Church; Pacific Power Group; Grass Lake Elementary School; Kent Valley Hockey Association; Seattle\/Tacoma KOA; and Plemmons Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Without them and the rest of the participants, we would not have exceeded our goals of $25,000 and 10,000 pounds of food for the Kent Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Together, the community raised $30,243 and 8,651 pounds of food.<\/p>\n<p>We sincerely appreciate all your hard work and dedication to make this event successful every year to support the Kent families that need help during Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays.<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to working with everyone again next year to make the seventh annual Kent Turkey Challenge even more successful than this year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Jack Kay, Torklift Central owner<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We would like to humbly thank the community and all the participants who donated to, and supported the sixth annual Kent Turkey Challenge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,8],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-25481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25481"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=25481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}