{"id":107811,"date":"2015-12-09T04:35:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-food-drives-a-success\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T04:35:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:35:48","slug":"dolores-food-drives-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/dolores-food-drives-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolores food drives a success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c273a394-1782-4ac3-90c2-83f13557598b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c273a394-1782-4ac3-90c2-83f13557598b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=800 800w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c273a394-1782-4ac3-90c2-83f13557598b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1200 1200w, https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=c273a394-1782-4ac3-90c2-83f13557598b&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=1800 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 2000px\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1506\" alt=\"Cherie Cobb, a pastor for Johnson Memorial Methodist church in Dolores, helps to collect food donations with her son Garrett. Donations go toward the backpack program, which helps provide Dolores children with nutritious food.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Cherie Cobb, a pastor for Johnson Memorial Methodist church in Dolores, helps to collect food donations with her son Garrett. Donations go toward the backpack program, which helps provide Dolores children with nutritious food.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Dolores community is in the giving spirit for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>Two Stuff the Bus food drives in November and December will help to provide meals for Dolores families in need.<\/p>\n<p>About 2,000 food items were donated along with $120. The donations went to the Pi\u00f1on Project\u2019s backpack program that provides weekend brown-bag meals to school children in need.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-seven Dolores families participate in the backpack program, said Kelly Proctor, health advocate for the Pi\u00f1on Project.<\/p>\n<p>A grant from Colorado Care and Share pays for weekend meals for 20 low-income families. The Pi\u00f1on Project provides weekend meals for the other seven families, plus meals over holiday breaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe depend on the food drives to provide for families struggling with food insecurities,\u201d Proctor said. \u201cThe donations stay in the Dolores community and help cover food needs over long breaks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cash is used to pay for special dietary needs and for fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>Names of participating families are kept confidential. The food is put in backpacks on then collected by kids at school drop-off points or on the bus ride home.<\/p>\n<p>Several businesses and local churches helped out with the food drive, including the Ginger Jar, Dolores Food Market, Dolores School district, bus driver Peggy Caudillo, and local churches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had an amazing response. We heard a lot of our kids are going hungry so we wanted to help out the backpack program,\u201d said Shelli Martin, of the Ginger Jar.<\/p>\n<p>Cherie Cobb, a new pastor for the Johnson Methodist Church, helped to gather the donations with her son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe generosity of this community is a blessing,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how to donate to the backpack program, contact Kelly Proctor at 970-564-1195.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donations go to program to feed kids<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":107812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5736,5735],"tags":[44,1753,598,2678],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-107811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-dolores","tag-holiday-or-vacation","tag-public-holiday","tag-religious-festival-or-holiday"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107811"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=107811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}