{"id":45939,"date":"2020-05-19T14:37:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/donation-drive-set-to-support-kent-food-bank\/"},"modified":"2020-05-19T14:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T21:37:00","slug":"donation-drive-set-to-support-kent-food-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/donation-drive-set-to-support-kent-food-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Donation drive set to support Kent Food Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Kent Stake and Maple Valley Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are asking residents to join them in a donation drive supporting the Kent Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Due to current economic conditions, the Food Bank is assisting more than double the usual number of families each week. Each year, the Food Bank relies in part on a couple of large food drives that will not be held due to the virus. Church members are organizing this drive to help fill the gap, according to a press release from Patrick Hanis, one of the organizers.<\/p>\n<p>The collections are from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 30 and Saturday, June 27.<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be delivered to the following drop-off locations at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints &#8211;parking lots:<\/p>\n<p>* Kent Building<\/p>\n<p>4419 94th Ave. S.<\/p>\n<p>* Kent Stake Center<\/p>\n<p>12817 SE 256th St.<\/p>\n<p>* Kentwood Building<\/p>\n<p>26106 164th Ave. SE, Covington<\/p>\n<p>* Maple Valley Stake Center ( Four Corners)<\/p>\n<p>26800 236th Place SE<\/p>\n<p>Monetary donations can also be made directly to the Kent Food Bank through the PayPal Giving fund: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/fundraiser\/charity\/75871\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/fundraiser\/charity\/75871 <\/a><\/p>\n<p>For additional information about the donation drive, contact Patrick Hanis: phanis@hiplawfirm.com.<\/p>\n<p>All donations are appreciated, with special emphasis on the following items:<\/p>\n<p><em>Low sodium canned vegetables<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canned tomato products<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canned fruit<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canned proteins &#8211; Spam, tuna, chicken<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ready to eat meals &#8211; chili, chef Boyardee<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canned or bagged beans<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Toiletries<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Diapers and formula<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Office supplies &#8211; papers, pens, garbage bags<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Low sodium soup &#8211; condensed and ready to eat<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bring items May 30, June 27 to drop-off sites <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":45940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-45939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939"}],"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=45939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45939"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=45939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}