{"id":15651,"date":"2021-03-10T00:33:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T00:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=15651"},"modified":"2021-03-09T20:37:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T20:37:51","slug":"meals-on-wheels-support-still-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/10\/meals-on-wheels-support-still-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Meals-On-Wheels Support Still Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><em>By Senior Connection<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Every March we join with organizations around the country to raise awareness and funds for our Meals on Wheels program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">Although The Senior Connection has been providing home-delivered meals for many years, 2020 showed our entire community just how essential this service is for Blaine County seniors.\u00a0We now deliver over\u00a0four times\u00a0as many meals as we did just one year ago!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We are proud that this program not only helps seniors stay safe at home when the pandemic risk is high, but continues to provide the \u201chot meal, friendly face and safety check\u201d that is the hallmark of the Meals on Wheels model.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">But we could not do it without your help.\u00a0When stay-at-home orders closed our building last spring in the middle of this important fundraising campaign, the outpouring of support we received to help with increased costs allowed us to serve everyone who needed it.\u00a0No one was turned away or put on a waiting list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">We still need this level of support as we wait for the vaccine to move things toward normal.\u00a0Our food and meal packaging costs are still double what they are historically and this campaign provides a significant portion of our yearly budget for this program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">You can help neighbors like Maria, Tommy, Diana, and Charlie by donating today. You can donate online at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seniorconnectionidaho.org\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.seniorconnectionidaho.org\/donate<\/a>\u00a0or mail a check to P.O. Box 28, Hailey, ID\u00a083333.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Senior Connection Every March we join with organizations around the country to raise awareness and funds for our Meals on Wheels program. Although The Senior Connection has been providing home-delivered meals for many years, 2020 showed our entire community just how essential this service is for Blaine County seniors.\u00a0We now deliver over\u00a0four times\u00a0as many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sponsored","8":"category-the-connection"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15656,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15651\/revisions\/15656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}