{"id":99480,"date":"2018-03-05T09:25:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=99480"},"modified":"2018-03-05T09:25:28","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T14:25:28","slug":"cooper-farms-donates-meat-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2018\/03\/05\/cooper-farms-donates-meat-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Farms donates meat products"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OAKWOOD &#8212; In 2017, Cooper Farms donated a total of more than 267,000 pounds of cooked and ready-to- cook meat products to local churches, programs, and organizations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-69940\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Cooper-Farms-logo-11-2015.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"128\" \/>\u201cCooper Farms prides itself on giving back to the local community,\u201d said COO Gary Cooper. \u201cWe know there are a lot of people in need in our surrounding area. Being able to help those people by providing them with a healthy protein is the least we can do, and we\u2019re more than happy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some top recipients of these donations were the West Ohio Foodbank, receiving over 95,000 pounds; St. Mary\u2019s Catholic Food Pantry, receiving nearly 26,000 pounds; and Northwest Ohio Foodbank, receiving nearly 23,000 pounds throughout the year. Cooper Farms has established very close relationships with these various organizations through these donations over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBeing able to provide these families with food is great, but getting to know the people involved in these various groups and programs has been just as rewarding,\u201d said Heather Cooper, Cooper Farms stockholder. \u201cTheir mission is something to be admired, so we\u2019re glad to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information OAKWOOD &#8212; In 2017, Cooper Farms donated a total of more than 267,000 pounds of cooked and ready-to- cook meat products to local churches, programs, and organizations. \u201cCooper Farms prides itself on giving back to the local community,\u201d said COO Gary Cooper. \u201cWe know there are a lot of people in need in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 22:50:32","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\/99480","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=99480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}