United for Good by Kristina McWethy Summer Eats Crest Foods employees volunteered time over the summer to hand out lunches as part of the UWLC Summer Eats program. In Lee County, an estimated 21% of children don’t know where their next meal is coming from. When school is out of session, the children who rely on school meals are not getting
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the help they need. That’s where Summer Eats comes in. The Summer Eats program provides free sack lunches to kids 18 and under, three days a week during the summer break. It was the first year the program expanded to serve Ashton, as well as several other smaller communities in Lee County. Over the course of 10 weeks, Crest’s Summer Eats volunteers were able to serve nearly 200 free lunches to area youth! In total, UWLC was able to provide over 2,000 meals at 10 different Lee County sites throughout the sum mer! That’s a lot of difference for a lot of area families! Thank you to all Crest Foods employees who volunteered their time to United Way programs this summer!
Day of Caring Saturday, June 22 marked the United Way of Lee County’s 2019 Day of Caring. This event joins volunteers across Lee County together to help non-profit organizations with a wide variety of projects including painting, landscaping, cleaning gutters, simple construction and general upkeep. It is a day where the United Way mantra, LIVE UNITED, is put into action.
This year, Day of Caring drew 150 volunteers who worked on al- most 40 projects for 12 different nonprofit agencies in 5 towns across Lee County! Crest Foods had a group of 9 volunteers that participated, and the group visited four different Kreider Services homes for individuals with varying degrees of developmental dis- abilities. Each Kreider group home received fresh landscaping in cluding new mulch, plants and some good old fashioned weeding. It was a beautiful day to get outside, give back and make a positive difference in the community! Jeff Stauter (Kreider Services), Erika Meiners, Steve Meiners, Jeff Meiners, Gary Guenther, Steve Crook, Shirley Reif, Lisa Guenther & Steve Starke
Welcome Kreider Services! This July, Crest Foods welcomed 15 residents and 2 supervisors from Kreider Services in Dixon to help out in our Production Department at the Karlin Warehouse. Monday - Friday our Kar- lin Crew has the addition of 5 residents and 2 supervisors from Kreider Services to run their own assembly line. While this helps us out in a time where we are very busy and short-staffed, our hope is that this can provide meaningful jobs and some hard- earned spending cash for all 15 residents for many years to come!
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