{"id":14967,"date":"2020-06-21T01:57:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=14967"},"modified":"2020-06-21T01:57:41","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T04:57:41","slug":"christmas-this-spring-gets-further-support-from-lwfra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=14967","title":{"rendered":"Christmas this Spring gets further support from LWFRA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>FALL RIVER:<\/strong> Christmas This Spring, the program put on by the Lions Christmas Express to ensure those hurting during the COVID19 pandemic have food on their table, received a boost of support on June 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before deliveries were made or those receiving food boxes picked them up at the LWF Hall parking lot, a cheque from the LWF (Lakeview-Windsor Junction-Fall River) Ratepayers Association was presented to the volunteer organizers with Christmas This Spring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money is the support for the June deliveries, which took place June 6 and 20. They served about 35 clients in the area communities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers said the next delivery for the food boxes is July 4 and the last one is July 18. They will then focus on the traditional winter program, which begins usually in late October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local businesses such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheVegetoriumCountryFarmMarket\/\">The Vegetorium Country Food Market<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sobeys-Fall-River-76657088476\/\">Sobeys Fall River<\/a> have stepped up to support the initiative with veggies and other food for the recipients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Beacon House has also come on to provide some extra goodies for recipients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the LWF Hall, Stephanie Dube and Paula Beck were presented with the cheque for financial support from the LWF Ratepayers, represented by Marni Tuttle and Cathy Deagle-Gammon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In order to finish off strong for the final two deliveries in July, Christmas This Spring could use your support. To do so, make a donation by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canadahelps.org\/en\/dn\/m\/48931\/donation\">clicking here<\/a>. You will receive a charitable tax receipt for your donation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The volunteers who take time out of their Saturdays to make the deliveries wish to thank those who have supported by making a donation to help those less fortunate neighbours in our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;47&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;9&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALL RIVER: Christmas This Spring, the program put on by the Lions Christmas Express to ensure those hurting during the COVID19 pandemic have food on their table, received a boost of support on June 20. Before deliveries were made or those receiving food boxes picked them up at the LWF Hall parking lot, a cheque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[1175,2,1176,245],"class_list":["post-14967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-christmas-this-spring","tag-fall-river","tag-food-banks","tag-lwf-hall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}