{"id":48228,"date":"2020-12-18T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T23:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/toys-for-joy-drive-in-kent-to-provide-500-children-with-gifts\/"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T23:06:00","slug":"toys-for-joy-drive-in-kent-to-provide-500-children-with-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/toys-for-joy-drive-in-kent-to-provide-500-children-with-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Toys for Joy drive in Kent to provide 500 children with gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Kent firefighters Toys for Joy program will enable 500 children from 300 families to receive gifts this year through the Kent Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Reddaway Kent and the National Guard helped haul and unload gifts Friday, Dec. 18 at Kent Lutheran Church for distribution through the Kent Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The drive was much different this year since people could not drop off toys at Puget Sound fire stations due to COVID-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>But donations of more than $17,000 from the communities of Kent and Covington led to firefighters purchasing $7,200 of toys and gifts at Target in Kent and another $6,000 worth at Fred Meyer in Covington, according to Puget Sound Fire.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining balance, as well as the cash donation from the Kent Firefighter Foundation will be donated to the local food banks early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community donated more than $17,000 to buy toys <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":48229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-48228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228"}],"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=48228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48228"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=48228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}