{"id":99458,"date":"2018-03-05T09:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99458"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:07:02","slug":"lview-makes-2-rivals-united-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/lview-makes-2-rivals-united-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"L&#8217;view makes 2 Rivals United donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>VW independent\/submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The United Way Board, in an effort to thank Rivals United schools Lincolnview and Crestview, wanted to allow the students who helped in the success of this year\u2019s contest determine what organizations would benefit from some extra donations.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview and Crestview each received $1,000 to \u201cgive back\u201d to the organizations of their choice.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview has chosen to give $500 to its Latchkey Program and $500 to the Middle Point Ballpark.<\/p>\n<p>The Middle Point Ballpark is going to use the $500 to replace old equipment that has been used for years. &#8220;The extra donation was a great surprise,&#8221; said Kevin Price, Middle Point Ballpark Board president.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_99459\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-99459\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-99459\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Rivals-United-Lincolnview-donations-3-2018.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"545\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-99459\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Shown are (from the left) Wayne Longstreth and Kevin Price Middle Point Ballpark representatives; Frankie Carey of Lincolnview Student Council; United Way Executive Director Vicki Smith; Dylan Neate of Lincolnview Student Council; Rhonda Longstreth of Lincolnview Latch Key Program; and Maddie Gorman of Lincolnview Student Council.<\/strong> <em>United Way photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lincolnview Latchkey Program director Rhonda Longstreth said that program would like to use the money to replenish its Legos toys and help with the purchase of a new bench made through the ABC Program. The benches derive from the \u201ccap and lid program\u201d &#8212; specifically designed by schoolchildren to be used by schoolchildren.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of an 8-foot bench is around $275 and it is made using discarded colorful caps and lids. The manufacturing company will only make the benches for kids\u2019 programs, and the kids get to assist by sorting the lids.<\/p>\n<p>Longstreth said that it was great that the kids decided where they wanted to give the money to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great example of kids helping kids,&#8221; she noted.<\/p>\n<p>Lincolnview noted that, in keeping with the underlying message of giving back, it is teaching students, staff, and community what that feels like to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Rivals United brought in $32,840.19 for United Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information The United Way Board, in an effort to thank Rivals United schools Lincolnview and Crestview, wanted to allow the students who helped in the success of this year\u2019s contest determine what organizations would benefit from some extra donations. Lincolnview and Crestview each received $1,000 to \u201cgive back\u201d to the organizations of their [&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-99458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 02:22:32","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\/99458","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=99458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}