{"id":27630,"date":"2022-04-05T22:38:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=27630"},"modified":"2022-04-05T22:38:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T01:38:16","slug":"local-food-banks-benefit-from-trivia-night-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=27630","title":{"rendered":"Local food banks benefit from Trivia Night fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS:<\/strong> Four local food banks throughout the Municipality of East Hants received support from the annual Trivia Night fundraiser, organized by the East Hants &amp; Districts Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, Chamber president Glynn Irving and Coordinator Tracey Williams visited the food banks to drop off their cheques, totalling $2,000 each ($8,000 in total between the four of the food banks).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this day the two stopped by the Hants North Food Bank; the Shumilacke Food Bank; and the Indian Brook Food Pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;159&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The food banks and their volunteers were very appreciative of the support shown from the Chamber.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The money came as a result of the support the community showed to the Trivia Night fundraiser, held earlier in 2022. The trivia night was held in memory of Suzie McDonell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Williams and Irving had delivered the cheque to the Caring &amp; Sharing Angel Tree Food Bank in Enfield the day before delivering the other three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5455-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27633\"\/><figcaption>The Indian Brook Food pantry gets their cheque. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_5442-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27631\"\/><figcaption>The Hants North Food Bank gets their cheque. (Healey photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;111&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;84&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;156&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;] EAST HANTS: Four local food banks throughout the Municipality of East Hants received support from the annual Trivia Night fundraiser, organized by the East Hants &amp; Districts Chamber of Commerce. Last week, Chamber president Glynn Irving and Coordinator Tracey Williams visited the food banks to drop off their cheques, totalling $2,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,957],"tags":[196,1990,1176,967,1034,3066],"class_list":["post-27630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-news","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-district-chamber-of-commerce","tag-food-banks","tag-hants-north","tag-indian-brook","tag-shumilacke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630","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=27630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630\/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=27630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}