{"id":61005,"date":"2025-12-11T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=61005"},"modified":"2025-12-11T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:22:55","slug":"santa-parade-food-drive-collects-lots-of-donations-for-caring-sharing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=61005","title":{"rendered":"Santa Parade food drive collects lots of donations for Caring &amp; Sharing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> Residents in Lantz came through big time with generous hearts for the local food bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Lantz Santa food drive parade through several subdivisions on Dec. 7, residents donated 37 shopping carts worth of food for Caring &amp; Sharing Angel Tree Food Bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was also more than $1300 in donations (cash and gift cards) received by volunteer firefighters who partook in the Santa food drive parade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fire departments from Lantz, Elmsdale, and Indian Brook took part.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3eb8ax_b-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61026\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Some of the shopping carts full of food donations collected. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Organizers were thrilled with the amount received.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Thank you to everyone who made this event possible,&#8221; said organizers in a post online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s so great to see everyone out supporting their community. What a wonderful time and so many smiles.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Santa wanted to let everyone know there were a lot of good boys and girls he saw along the route and he can&#8217;t wait to come back on Christmas Eve delivering gifts to them all.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/59hNr11d-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-61028\" style=\"width:669px;height:auto\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Santa in Lantz. (Submitted photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56506&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANTZ: Residents in Lantz came through big time with generous hearts for the local food bank. During the Lantz Santa food drive parade through several subdivisions on Dec. 7, residents donated 37 shopping carts worth of food for Caring &amp; Sharing Angel Tree Food Bank. There was also more than $1300 in donations (cash and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[4843,1556,196,1085,2956,177,1678,1204],"class_list":["post-61005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-caring-sharing-angel-tree","tag-caring-sharing-angel-tree-food-bank","tag-east-hants","tag-elmsdale-fire","tag-food-bank","tag-food-drive","tag-indian-brook-fire","tag-lantz-fire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005","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=61005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}