{"id":55319,"date":"2014-09-06T06:34:10","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=55319"},"modified":"2014-09-06T06:34:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T11:34:10","slug":"area-residents-asked-to-help-food-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2014\/09\/06\/area-residents-asked-to-help-food-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Area residents asked to help food drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>United Way of VW County information<\/i><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55320\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Day-of-Caring-food-drive-barrel-9-2014.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-55320 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black;\" alt=\"One of the food drive barrels distributed by the United Way of Van Wert County. (photo submitted)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Day-of-Caring-food-drive-barrel-9-2014.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of the food drive barrels distributed by the United Way of Van Wert County. (photo submitted)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The United Way of Van Wert County Day of Caring food drive is in full swing!\u00a0 Barrels are set out around town, and the public is asked to help by filling them with non-perishable food items to help restock the Salvation Army Food Pantry. The barrels will be out for donations until Friday, September 26.<\/p>\n<p>The goal of this year&#8217;s food drive is 30,000 items to restock the Salvation Army food pantry that assists hundreds of families in need each year.\u00a0 On average, the Salvation Army food pantry distributes 10,000 items per month. The 30,000 items collected for the United Way of Van Wert Day of Caring only last until December or January.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the donation barrels, challenges are taking place among the county service clubs, industries, and schools. Those interested can find a list of donation barrel locations on the United Way of Van Wert County&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unitedwayvanwert.org\">www.unitedwayvanwert.org<\/a> or by calling the United Way office at 419.238.6689.<\/p>\n<p>The United Way of Van Wert County encourages area residents to &#8216;Live United&#8217; and thanks them for their support!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Way of VW County information The United Way of Van Wert County Day of Caring food drive is in full swing!\u00a0 Barrels are set out around town, and the public is asked to help by filling them with non-perishable food items to help restock the Salvation Army Food Pantry. The barrels will be out [&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-55319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-04 17:15:35","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\/55319","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=55319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}