{"id":65747,"date":"2019-07-11T20:26:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mecc-to-sponsor-back-to-school-drive\/"},"modified":"2019-07-12T02:26:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T02:26:13","slug":"mecc-to-sponsor-back-to-school-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/mecc-to-sponsor-back-to-school-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"MECC to sponsor back-to-school drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=958a3b78-21ae-4be9-86ff-7d15064756ac&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1996\" height=\"1411\" alt=\"Montelores Early Childhood Council and partners will host a school supply and backpack drive through August 8.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Montelores Early Childhood Council and partners will host a school supply and backpack drive through August 8.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy Montelores Early Childhood Council<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Montelores Early Childhood Council will sponsor a backpack and school supply drive in partnership with the Salvation Army at 4 p.m. Aug. 8 at Montezuma Park. The event will also offer free haircuts, immunization checks and resources. Games, activities, Ruby Balloon and the Powerhouse Science Van will also be available.<\/p>\n<p>The group provided 462 backpacks with supplies to local children 4-18 years old for the 2019 school year and hopes to do even more this year.<\/p>\n<p>Community members can participate in the drive by donating school supplies or money through an online donation, sponsor a child for $25 per child or volunteer to sort and distribute supplies.<\/p>\n<p>Current partners include: city of Cortez, CREA, Cortez Public Library, Walmart, Operation Homefront, Montezuma County Public Health Department, Bombas Socks and others.<\/p>\n<p>Donate online at <a href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/montezuma-county-back-to-school-drive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.donorbox.org\/montezuma-county-back-to-school-drive<\/a> or drop off donations by Aug. 2 at one of the following locations: CSU Extension Office, Montezuma County Health Department, Montelores Early Child Council office, Cortez Welcome Center, Cortez Public Library, Mancos Public Library, Dolores Public Library and Salvation Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montelores Early Childhood Council and partners will host a school supply and backpack drive through August 8.Courtesy Montelores Early Childhood Council The Montelores Early Childhood Council will sponsor a backpack and school supply drive in partnership with the Salvation Army at 4 p.m. Aug. 8 at Montezuma Park. The event will also offer free haircuts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65747","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=65747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65747\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65747"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}