Crest Ink - Volume 33 - Number 03

2021 Walking Club Wrap Up by Erika Meiners

If you’ve followed along in the last few issues of the Crest Ink, Walking Club 2021 has wrapped up, and everyone is already working on logging miles for the next year. When we put out the challenge last year, we weren’t sure how this COVID-driven change would go. For years, we had been walking/running at lo- cal 5K’s as a group, and this year we would be logging miles on our own. While worried about participation with the new format and motivation without the group pushing each other along, it turns out we had nothing to worry about - Crest employees stepped up! The motivation was different for many, and for me, the motivation was reaching the maximum $1000 donation for charity. All I had to do was walk 500 miles throughout the year. With my old dog by my side, we averaged about 2 miles per day together and reached our 500th mile on the very last day of the 2021 deadline. I was thrilled to be able to give my charity of choice, Kreider Services, a check for $1000. 82 Crest Foods employees took on the challenge with me last year, logging a whopping 39,466 miles walking, run- ning or biking! This meant that as a group we would be donating a total of $42,600 to 45 different local charities ($22,000 of that total was from employees reaching 500 miles). The thank you’s from the community have been roll- ing in, and I’m so proud of us as a group and company to be able to make that much of an impact on so many local organizations. Thank you to everyone for embracing the change and for making it such a great success. We will be following the same format for the next year, so get out there and start walking, running, or biking! Every mile counts and we are working on breaking our record and making at least $50,000 in donations in October of next year! Local organizations that were given donations from the Walking Club were: 11 Day Power Play Ashton Rescue

Serenity Hospice & Home Shining Star Ashton Care Pantry The Caroline Mark Home

Happy Tails Honor Flight of Lee County Hooved Animal Humane Society Hope Life Center Hub Cluster Ministries Kreider Services LHCS Friends of Parks & Recreation Loaves & Fishes Maggie & Amos Foundation Mending Hearts Rescue Menno Haven Camp & Retreat Miss Carly’s NW IL Children’s Dyslexia

Ashton Park District Boy Scout Troop 78 Buddy Bags CASA Chabad Jewish Community Center Crest Foods Benevolence Fund Dixon Community Food Pantry Dixon Police Department Charity Focus House Franklin Creek Conservation Assoc. Goodfellows Granny Rose Animal Shelter Habitat for Humanity Lee County

The Kitchen Table The Lending Closet United Way of Lee County Village of Progress We Care Pregnancy Center Franklin Grove Fire Habitat for Humanity Kerr County The Coming King Foundation Home of Hope Dixon Park District Regap Greyhounds as Pets

Pegasus Special Riders Sauk Valley Food Bank

Thank you so much for your donation to Kitchen Table! We are blessed with your thought of helping us! Thank you for your support! - Habitat for Humanity Kerr County Thank you very much for your generous donation! - TCKF Thank you so much for your generous donation! We appreciate it and will put the money to good use to serve our clients. -Shining Star Thank you for thinking of us. It is greatly appreciated. Delores, Dixon Community Food Pantry Thank you for your support to the Ashton Care Pantry and our community. Your generosity of greatly appreciated. - Tom Balch

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