{"id":30795,"date":"2023-11-07T16:06:16","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T23:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pinon-project-hosts-winter-wear-drive-for-children-in-southwest-colorado\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:26:16","slug":"pinon-project-hosts-winter-wear-drive-for-children-in-southwest-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/pinon-project-hosts-winter-wear-drive-for-children-in-southwest-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi\u00f1on Project hosts winter wear drive for children in Southwest Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=718ae6f9-b5a5-50e1-bd15-2603e7d97749&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"Pi\u00f1on Project is taking donations to provide winter clothing for children in Southwest Colorado. (Unsplash)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pi\u00f1on Project is taking donations to provide winter clothing for children in Southwest Colorado. (Unsplash)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Pi\u00f1on Project started a winter wear drive to help bring warm winter clothing to youths in the community who don\u2019t have the resources to acquire winter clothing on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Pi\u00f1on Project said they are holding this drive to \u201ckeep our kids warm and healthy\u201d this winter. Each year, Pi\u00f1on helps about 597 youths in the local communities.<\/p>\n<p>High need items that are specifically requested at the drive are hats, gloves, scarves, hoodies, puffies, jackets, thermal pants, thermal tops, coats, new boots and socks.<\/p>\n<p>They also ask that items donated are clean and in good condition, and said they will accept adult sizes as well.<\/p>\n<p>Because temperatures can drop to 12 degrees and below in Southwest Colorado winters, Pi\u00f1on emphasized the importance of making sure every child has proper clothing for the duration of the cold winter months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHelp us keep them warm this winter!\u201d Pi\u00f1on Center said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be made at Pi\u00f1on Project, 210 E. Main St. in Cortez, and questions can be directed to Ellis McNichol at <a href=\"mailto:emcnichol@pinonproject.org\">emcnichol@pinonproject.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image naviga-align-left alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9c1a9d4b-ed59-5f98-aa25-70ceb9ea40df&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1545\" height=\"2000\" alt=\"Pi\u00f1on Project released a flyer advertising its youth winter wear drive.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Pi\u00f1on Project released a flyer advertising its youth winter wear drive.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>asking for donations to be brought to the Pi\u00f1on Project building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[364,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-community","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795","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=30795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81210,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30795\/revisions\/81210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30795"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}