{"id":107739,"date":"2018-09-29T08:18:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T13:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=107739"},"modified":"2018-10-01T07:53:18","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T12:53:18","slug":"united-way-day-of-caring-food-drive-very-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/09\/29\/united-way-day-of-caring-food-drive-very-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Day of Caring food drive beats estimate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Van Wert independent<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was a busy and productive day for the United Way of Van Wert County\u2019s Day of Caring food and blood drives.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_107740\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-107740\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-107740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Vantage-Day-of-Caring-food-drive-9-28-18.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"205\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-107740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Vantage Career Center staff and students work to process food and other items donated as part of the United Way of Van Wert County&#8217;s annual Day of Caring Food Drive.<\/strong> <em>photo provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The annual Day of Caring Food Drive collected 42,829 items for The Salvation Army, Cooperative Ministries, and Trinity Friends food pantries. To put that in perspective, the total is more than 6,000 higher than the Day of Caring goal of 36,000 items, and nearly 7,000 items higher than last year\u2019s food drive collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we asked our community to give the high-dollar items, such as shampoo, laundry detergent, dish soap, diapers, toilet paper, deodorant, and person care items,\u201d said United Way Executive Director Vicki Smith. \u201cWe received so many of these items that it was overwhelming.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese items cost much more than a can of soup or a box of macaroni and cheese, so we are grateful that everyone gave more,\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n<p>The United Way also collected $5,000 in cash donations for the food pantries to put on account to purchase items from the West Ohio Food Bank. The money will be used to purchase other items for each pantry.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->\u201cThe food bank is able to sell food by the pound and in large quantities, so it is a win-win for everyone,\u201d Smith noted.<\/p>\n<p>Smith also gave a special thanks to staff and students and Vantage Career Center, who helped with the food drive collection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey make the event possible,\u201d Smith said. \u201cOur hashtag this year is #HowDoYouFit?; well, Vantage fits in nicely.<\/p>\n<p>Smith said blood drive figures will likely be available sometime over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Wert independent It was a busy and productive day for the United Way of Van Wert County\u2019s Day of Caring food and blood drives. The annual Day of Caring Food Drive collected 42,829 items for The Salvation Army, Cooperative Ministries, and Trinity Friends food pantries. To put that in perspective, the total is more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-21 08:23:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}