{"id":2758,"date":"2012-03-30T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T20:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-woman-gives-large-donation-to-senior-center\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T19:55:37","slug":"kent-woman-gives-large-donation-to-senior-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-woman-gives-large-donation-to-senior-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent woman gives large donation to senior center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Kent Senior Activity Center employees received a $211,765 donation from Winona Constance Grant.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Grant passed away some time this month and was involved in many activities at the center.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We were pretty shocked and overwhelmed when we heard about the donation,&#8221; said Lea Bishop, facility manager at the center. &#8220;We&#8217;ve never received a sum this big before.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Bishop remembers Grant as a friendly and warm lady.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;She loved to go on our day trips with us, it was her most important activity,&#8221; Bishop recalled. &#8220;She was a very sweet lady and just a great person all-around.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The center will use the money for repairs and needed items including a new travel bus, computers for the computer lab, equipment for the fitness center, televisions and a salad bar for the cafeteria.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;We are quite grateful she thought of us,&#8221; Bishop said. &#8220;This is stuff we badly need but we&#8217;d never get to do if we didn&#8217;t receive the money.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent Senior Activity Center employees received a $211,765 donation from Winona Constance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"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-2758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758"}],"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\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2758"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}