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Article: Tillamook helps raise one million pounds of food.(News and Trends)
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- April 1, 2008
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PORTLAND, Ore. -- Tillamook Cheese is the presenting sponsor of the fifth annual major public service campaign, The Great Food Drive, to address the hunger problem in the Northwest. Tillamook partnered with a local television station, and the Oregon Food Bank to raise food for Northwest families.
Throughout the month of March, the organizations raised one million pounds of food to help fill the shelves of twenty regional food banks and 919 hunger-relief agencies across Oregon and Southwest Washington.
"No one wants to believe their neighbor, coworker, student or friend is going hungry, but the reality is that each ...