{"id":7148,"date":"2017-10-08T20:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T00:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=7148"},"modified":"2017-10-08T23:43:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T03:43:52","slug":"help-acps-meet-needs-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/?p=7148","title":{"rendered":"Help ACPS Meet the Needs of Our Families"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The bus drivers and monitors from the ACPS Department of Transportation are hosting a <strong>Coat, Backpack and Food Drive<\/strong> for students in need on <strong>Saturday, October 14 <\/strong> from <strong>10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/strong>\u00a0The drive will take place at the ACPS Transportation Department building\u00a0at 3540 Wheeler Avenue, Alexandria.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a fun-filled event with music, entertainment and refreshments. All ages are welcome!<\/p>\n<p>We are looking for donations of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>backpacks (new, like new or gently used and laundered)<\/li>\n<li>winter coats and jackets (new, like new or gently used and laundered)<\/li>\n<li>hats, gloves and mittens\u00a0(new, like new or gently used and laundered)<\/li>\n<li>unexpired, nonperishable food items<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please join us in helping those who need it most!<\/p>\n<p>If you or your\u00a0family are in need, the City of Alexandria has multiple resources of which you can take advantage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/dchs\/economicsupport\/default.aspx?id=49590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Center for Economic Support<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/CommonHelp\">Common Help<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alexandriava.gov\/dchs\/economicsupport\/default.aspx?id=49596\">Food &amp; Clothing Assistance<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1.4rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alive-inc.org\/\">ALIVE!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information about the Coat, Backpack and Food Drive, contact Michael Stephens at 703-618-9722 or Denise Moore at 703-864-2580.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7185\" src=\"http:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM-800x532.png\" alt=\"Food donation collection for Blessings in a Backpack program\" width=\"288\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM-800x532.png 800w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM-260x173.png 260w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2017-10-08-at-7.38.03-PM.png 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 288px) 100vw, 288px\" \/>Thank you to our volunteers from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acps.k12.va.us\/Domain\/20\">Matthew Maury Elementary School,<\/a> Mayor Allison Silberberg and Principal Victor Powell who recently collected donations for National Blessings in a Backpack Day. The program sends food home with students in need over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring new or gently used backpacks, coats, jackets, hats and gloves to the ACPS Transportation Department on Saturday, October 14 to be donated to families in need. Non-perishable food items are also being collected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3,16,19,21,35,20,6,5,66,26,17,13,27,24,23,22,28,18,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acps","category-achs","category-brooks","category-charles-barrett","category-cora-kelly","category-events","category-george-mason","category-george-washington","category-hammond","category-international-academy","category-jefferson-houston","category-john-adams","category-lyles-crouch","category-macarthur","category-minnie-howard","category-mount-vernon","category-patrick-henry","category-polk","category-ramsay","category-tucker"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-08 00:42:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7148"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7148\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}