<p style="text-indent:0px; line-height:12px;"><span style="font-weight:bold;line-height:130%">Harford, Maryland</span><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">By ANUK Staff<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">4.26.13</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p>C&S Wholesale Grocers has selected Russell Hurd as the 2013 Volunteer of the Year, in celebration of National Volunteer Week.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">An employee since 2007, Hurd is a Perishable Quality Control Manager in the company’s North East, Maryland food distribution center.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/volunteerofyear042613body.jpg" alt="IMAGES APRIL 26 2013" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">Hurd volunteers more than 1,000 hours each year with Harford Community College in Maryland. Russell and his wife, Kim, partnered with the College to create the Heather L. Hurd 5K Run/1 Mile Walk, established in memory of their daughter, Heather, who was killed in a traffic accident in 2008 by a tractor-trailer driver who was distracted while texting .<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><img src="https://cdn.andnowuknow.com/legacyWriterImages/volunteerofyear042613body1.jpg" alt="IMAGES APRIL 26 2013" /><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">He has also lobbied for legislation to prevent distracted driving, and was a panelist at the Florida Distracted Driving Summit last November. Russell and his wife, Kim, were instrumental in passing Heather’s Law in Maryland in 2010 that bans the use of hand-held cell phones while driving.<hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">“Right now, we are losing over 3,000 people per year strictly due to cell phone use and texting while driving, and that number is conservative. 600,000 are injured every year. I hope that, one of these days, people will understand how dangerous distracted driving is,” said Russell. “I’d give anything not to be Volunteer of the Year. I’m Volunteer of the Year because I love my daughter. I’m trying to help prevent another family from going through this.”</p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding"><p><a class="btn btn-sm btn-primary col-lg-12" style="white-space: normal;" href="http://www.cswg.com/" target="_new">C&S </a></p><hr class="legacyRuler"><hr class="invisible minimal-padding">
