{"id":122042,"date":"2014-01-15T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/elementary-school-headed-to-pop-tab-title\/"},"modified":"2014-01-15T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T05:50:07","slug":"elementary-school-headed-to-pop-tab-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/elementary-school-headed-to-pop-tab-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Elementary school headed to pop tab title"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sharma Jean and Morgan Chappell are leaders in the pop tab collection effort.<\/span>Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cThe kids just really went with it,\u201d said Michelle Chaffee a member of the PTA.<\/p>\n

So far, the school has collected 198 pounds of the aluminum tabs, said PTA member, Donna Guggenheim, who helped start the program.<\/p>\n

There are about 1,280 tabs in a pound, and a pound brings in 45 cents.<\/p>\n

The charity collects the tabs because cans are messy to store, said Sam Rush-Walton, a representative with the nonprofit.<\/p>\n

The Ronald McDonald House hosts the annual Mountain of Love pop tab collection competition for about 70 schools in southern Colorado, and Dolores Elementary has a very strong lead, she said. Last year, pop tab donations brought for the $3,000 nonprofit to help the families of seriously ill children.<\/p>\n

Guggenheim said she hopes students learn to help others in need through the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think kids understand it better than some other kind of charity,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The organization helps provide housing, gas money and other necessities to the families of children who are being treated at Memorial Hospital for Children or St. Francis Medical Center.<\/p>\n

Sharma-Jean Chaffee, 9, and her sister Morgan Chaffee, 6, some of the largest donors, said they collect pop tabs from pet food cans, their neighbors and Belt Salvage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to try to get kids out of the hospital and help their families with food,\u201d said Sharma-Jean.<\/p>\n

To contribute to the effort and help students win the competition, bring pop tabs to the front desk of the elementary school before March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean and Morgan Chappell are leaders in the pop tab collection effort.Sam Green\/Cortez Journal \u201cThe kids just really went with it,\u201d said Michelle Chaffee a member of the PTA. So far, the school has collected 198 pounds of the aluminum tabs, said PTA member, Donna Guggenheim, who helped start the program. There are about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":122043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6363],"tags":[188,4343,13,61,2346,4290],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-122042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ds-news","tag-dolores-star","tag-elementary-schools","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-health","tag-people-profiles","tag-teaching-and-learning"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122042","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=122042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122042"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=122042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}