{"id":31284,"date":"2017-11-03T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/holiday-toy-drive-for-military-children-starts-at-dollar-tree-stores\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T23:37:20","slug":"holiday-toy-drive-for-military-children-starts-at-dollar-tree-stores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/holiday-toy-drive-for-military-children-starts-at-dollar-tree-stores\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday toy drive for military children starts at Dollar Tree stores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Homefront and Dollar Tree will once again join forces this year to make the holidays brighter for military families with the nonprofit&rsquo;s Holiday Toy Drive.<\/p>\n<p>For the 11th consecutive year, Dollar Tree customers can purchase toys for military kids, easing the financial burdens that often accompany the holiday season for junior- and mid-grade (E1-E6) service members and their families. Dollar Tree has three Kent stores.<\/p>\n<p>Stores will have collection boxes available in which shoppers place their purchased toys. Operation Homefront volunteers collect these toys to be distributed at the nonprofit&rsquo;s holiday events across the country and through on-base Family Readiness Groups.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;On behalf of the entire Operation Homefront family, I want to thank Dollar Tree and its customers for continuing their generous support for our Holiday Toy Drive program,&rdquo; said retired Brig. Gen. John I. Pray Jr., president &#038; CEO of Operation Homefront. &ldquo;Over the course of the past 11 years, we have made a real difference, with millions of goods going to support our military families.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>OperationHomefront.org also accepts online contributions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operation Homefront and Dollar Tree will once again join forces this year to make the holidays brighter for military families with the nonprofit&rsquo;s Holiday Toy Drive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":31285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-31284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31284"}],"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\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31284"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=31284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}