The Renton AAA office collected more than 5,200 toiletry items for the Auburn Food Bank and St. Vincent de Paul during AAA’s Soap for Hope donation drive.

In all AAA’s donation drive recently collected and distributed a record 105,079 bars of soap and other toiletry items for charitable organizations throughout Washington state and northern Idaho. This is a 68 percent increase over to last year’s collection of 62,712 items.

“The success of Soap for Hope is due in large part to the efforts of our members and community partners, including the Renton Puget Sound Blood Center, which have done an amazing job supporting this event,” said Susan Brahm, manager of AAA’s office in Renton, in a news release. “We are so pleased to have their support every year. We simply could not do this without them.”