{"id":17544,"date":"2009-10-23T20:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T03:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/city-gives-72500-free-sandbags-to-residents-more-available\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T15:30:35","slug":"city-gives-72500-free-sandbags-to-residents-more-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/city-gives-72500-free-sandbags-to-residents-more-available\/","title":{"rendered":"City gives 72,500 free sandbags to residents; more available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As of Oct.20, Kent City officials had distributed more than 72,500 free, empty sandbags to residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents are getting in shape,\u201d said Tim LaPorte, city interim public works director, in a report to the City Council Oct. 20.<\/p>\n<p>People have used more than 380 tons of sand so far at six sites set up by the city.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can get the sandbags between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Oct. 24 and 31 at the City Operations facility, 5821 S. 240th St. Each household is limited to 100 sandbags.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can fill the sandbags at one of six locations during daylight hours and should bring their own shovel. The six locations are:<\/p>\n<p>The old Panther Lake Elementary School, 20831 108th Ave. S.E.; Fred Meyer store, 10201 S.E. 240th St.; Earthworks Park, 742 E. Titus St.; Home Depot store, 26120 104th Ave. S.E.; Totem Middle School, 25630 40th Ave. S.; and Grandview Park, 3600 S. 228th St., in SeaTac.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the city operations division at 253-856-5600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Oct.20, Kent City officials had distributed more than 72,500 free, empty sandbags to residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17544"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}