{"id":46445,"date":"2021-06-04T01:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montelores-early-childhood-council-to-host-childrens-festival-school-supply-drive\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:31:55","slug":"montelores-early-childhood-council-to-host-childrens-festival-school-supply-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montelores-early-childhood-council-to-host-childrens-festival-school-supply-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Montelores Early Childhood Council to host children\u2019s festival, school supply drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Montelores Early Childhood Council will host a Children\u2019s festival and back-to-school suppl drive this summer.<\/p>\n<p>The Children\u2019s Festival will take place from 9 a.m. to noon July 24 at Veterans Park. The festival will offer free vision, growth, dental, hearing, social-emotional and developmental screenings. Filled preschool backpacks will also be given out.<\/p>\n<p>The back-to-school drive is planned for Aug. 7. Additional details will be announced at a later date. Filled backpacks for kindergarten to 12th graders will be distributed Aug. 7 to students who reside in Montezuma County.<\/p>\n<p>Donations help cover MECC\u2019s costs, which include tote bags and takeaways for each family, food for more than 100 volunteers, marketing materials, school supplies and backpacks.<\/p>\n<p>To donate, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/montezuma-county-back-to-school-drive-and-children-s-festival\" id=\"link-d2198184622055c262da671b2e8f29f9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.donorbox.org\/montezuma-county-back-to-school-drive-and-children-s-festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To volunteer, register at <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/pq1P1Jfd1iPgfGVU8\" id=\"link-b8757e30b3478495de54b95871fb4d18\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forms.gle\/pq1P1Jfd1iPgfGVU8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, email <a href=\"mailto:katrinal@monteloresecc.org\">katrinal@monteloresecc.org<\/a> or call 564-3211.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Council to host children\u2019s festival<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46445","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=46445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86884,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46445\/revisions\/86884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46445"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}