{"id":36735,"date":"2018-09-19T14:38:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/8th-annual-kent-turkey-challenge-fundraiser-starts-soon\/"},"modified":"2018-09-19T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T21:55:08","slug":"8th-annual-kent-turkey-challenge-fundraiser-starts-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/8th-annual-kent-turkey-challenge-fundraiser-starts-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"8th Annual Kent Turkey Challenge fundraiser starts soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses and organizations can soon sign up to compete in the 8th annual Kent Turkey Challenge food bank fundraiser hosted by Torklift Central.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers set a goal to raise $25,000 and 10,000 pounds of food for the Kent Food Bank to support families during Thanksgiving. Registration begins Saturday, Oct. 13, at <a href=\"https:\/\/torkliftcentral.com\/turkey-challenge\/2018-kent-turkey-challenge\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"turkey\">torkliftcentral.com\/turkey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past seven years, the community has raised $140,893 and 45,060 pounds of food through the turkey challenge. Last year&rsquo;s top organizations and businesses were:<\/p>\n<p>Ski&rsquo;s Painting, Eberle Vivian, Shannon and Associates, Kent United Methodist Church, Express Employment Pros, Plemmons Industries, Grass Lake Elementary School, Kent Valley Hockey Association, Seattle\/Tacoma KOA and Kent CrossFit.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;When businesses and organizations sign up to participate they get a wrapped donation box and signage to display in their stores,&rdquo; said Torklift Central Owner Jack Kay in a media release. &ldquo;Each year the competing businesses are featured on our website and the top winners of the challenge are presented with awards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>This year there are several new additions to promote community involvement. This includes ice cream parties for classrooms that are pre-registered to join the challenge and electric Razor scooter prizes for the Turkey Challenge Coloring Contest.<\/p>\n<p>Torklift Central also will host a Facebook contest to have participants share photos of their donations to be entered to win a free weekend trip to Las Vegas with airfare and hotel included.<\/p>\n<p>The Kent Turkey Challenge began in 2011 when the food bank lost a significant amount of its funding.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, due to the fundraising efforts, the Kent Food Bank was able to purchase fresh items including turkey, chicken, real butter, broccoli, green peppers, sweet potatoes and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses, groups can sign up starting Oct. 13 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":538,"featured_media":36736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-36735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735"}],"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\/538"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36735"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=36735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}