{"id":45506,"date":"2020-04-13T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/national-guard-packing-10000-food-boxes-per-week-at-kent-warehouse\/"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T22:10:00","slug":"national-guard-packing-10000-food-boxes-per-week-at-kent-warehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/national-guard-packing-10000-food-boxes-per-week-at-kent-warehouse\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard packing 10,000 food boxes per week at Kent warehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 10,000 emergency food boxes are packed each week by 30 members of the National Guard at the Northwest Harvest warehouse in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The Guard unit works eight hours a day, according to information released Monday by Northwest Harvest. The Kent Reporter website first reported last week the use of the National Guard at the warehouse. The unit started April 6.<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Harvest set a goal to distribute 80,000 emergency food boxes each week from its warehouses to food banks. The 80,000 boxes contain approximately 800,000 meals for families.<\/p>\n<p>After much consideration, Northwest Harvest officials said they thought bringing in the National Guard looked like the safest, most effective, most efficient and most scalable option during this crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Northwest Harvest is a nonprofit food bank distributor operating statewide with a network of 375 food banks served from several warehouses, including one in Kent since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Many volunteers that support food banks and warehouses are seniors and are in the at-risk categories for Covid-19, creating a severe staffing shortfall while demand for food assistance goes up, according to the National Guard.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Jay Inslee approved the National Guard to help with food distribution at food banks and warehouses during the crisis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Began work last week <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506"}],"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=45506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45506"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}