Can Kennel hits $150,000 Mark

Equals 3 Million Cans

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After 18 years of funding Treynor youth groups, the popular Optimist Club Can Kennel has reached the collection of $150,000 from 5-cent cans and bottles.  This is all thanks to the wonderful contribution of the people of Treynor and surrounding areas.  A wide variety of youth groups has received funds.  Twelve groups per year get can collection funding.  Those youth have to sort the redeemable nickel cans and bottles twice in a four-week period. 

If all the cans and bottles from the Can Kennel were five-inch cans, and then were laid end to end, the 3,000,000 row would travel 237 miles, or from Treynor to Muscatine, Iowa on the Mississippi River. 

The Can Kennel is only for nickel-deposit beverage containers.  It is not for water bottles, juice bottles, or milk jugs.  Thanks goes to the volunteer Optimist Club members that help the youth groups at each sorting, and to the City of Treynor for letting the Can Kennel be on the east end of the Community Center parking lot. 

Every Treynor student has benefited from the proceeds.  Music groups, athletics, scouts, church youth, 4-H Clubs, After-Prom, and Elementary School activities have all received funding.  Your continued support is appreciated.