The Season of Giving At Harmony
As Christmas quickly approaches, we are reminded that Christmastime truly is the Season of Giving at Harmony Enterprises! We are proud to announce that our employees continued their tradition of hosting a competitive “canstruction” food drive, donating large amounts of canned goods to the local food shelf.
Here is how Harmony’s annual food drive works:
Each team’s cans were placed in a uniform area prior to each build.
Participating employees are divided up into their safety groups and are encouraged to hold pre-event meetings to come up with creative building plans. The idea is simple, each participating employee brings in canned goods for donation to use in their “build”. The more cans of various sizes and shapes they brought bring in, the more interesting and intricate their designs can be!
Teams are given a designated amount of time and specific rules on how they can work together to stack, bind, and manufacture their “canstructs.” Everything must be built during the allotted time, and no pre-constructs are allowed. Teams are encouraged to incorporate as much color, depth, use of space, and use of lights and other design elements as possible.
Each final design was judged by a panel of impartial local community members who have long lasting relationships with Harmony Enterprises.
This year’s judges!
This year’s judges were (L to R):
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- Sarah Wangen, SEMCAC Preston – Food Distribution Center
- Steve Donney, Harmony Mayor & Cetera Investments
- Matt Brown, Estellle’s Eatery and Bar
- James Skaalen, First Southeast Bank of Harmony
Each judge voted for their favorite “canstruction” in each of the following categories: Creativity & Originality, Overall Structure & Number of Canned Goods, Use of Available Space, and Overall Appeal. The winning team earned a pizza lunch party for their best-in-show design. Thank you to all of our esteemed judges and employee participants for making Harmony’s annual food drive a successful event!
This year’s builds included “Erasing Hunger”, a “Slice of Pie”, and an interactive Harmony game of “Life”.
The winning creation was “A Charlie Brown Christmas” featuring Snoopy on his doghouse, Schroder’s piano, and the famous little Christmas tree.
Canstruction Food Shelf Builds
Here are photos of each canstruction build and the team members involved!
Group One: A Charlie Brown Christmas
Group Two: Erase Hunger
Group Three: A Slice of Pie
Group Four: The Harmony Game of Life
Thank You To Everyone Involved!
Maintenance Supervisor, Travis McCabe wraps one of the many pallets of food donated this year.
Harmony Enterprises is proud to announce that through this “CANSTRUCTION” annual food drive, we were able to donate a full truckload of canned food and boxes of dry goods of food!
Thank you to our employees and community members for their dedication to this annual event and for helping to make the holidays a little brighter for families in need. This year’s donation totaled 1375 lbs. of food to our local food shelf!
Special thanks to Harmony Kids Learning Center for collecting additional donations for our cause.
Want to learn more about how Harmony not only manufacturers long lasting balers and compactors that positively impact the environment, but also how Harmony gives back to our community, our career, culture, or company?
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