Watson Inc. recently made a rather significant donation to the Taylorville Food Pantry. Team members at Watson’s Taylorville plant held a school supply drive over the summer, and collected school supplies to help fill 216 backpacks that Watson Inc. then donated to the Taylorville Food Pantry. Moira Watson, Vice President of Marketing and Communications for Watson Inc. spoke with Regional Radio News and said the main offices learned that the Taylorville Food Pantry was seeking school supply donations, and reached out to its Taylorville location to see if they could do something to help.

Moira Watson said the company held a competition between employees in good fun to help with gathering school supplies.

The backpacks have since been distributed to needing families in Taylorville. The company hopes that the children who received the backpacks will find the school supplies useful, and help them have a successful school year.