{"id":368,"date":"2018-12-21T09:37:43","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/?p=368"},"modified":"2019-01-08T20:45:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T01:45:09","slug":"many-hands-make-light-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/2018\/12\/21\/many-hands-make-light-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Many hands make light work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/holly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-372\" src=\"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/holly-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Christmas is a wonderful time of year but it can also be a very difficult time of year for many families. With the help of volunteers, community groups and individual donations, we helped over eighty families and gave them a full Christmas dinner, toys to put under their tree and the feeling that the Christmas spirit is alive and well in our community.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank the following groups as well as all of the people who volunteered their time at the Food bank, picked up food items or clothing, dropped off toys and delivered meals to those without transportation:<\/p>\n<p>Dads of Muskoka<br \/>\nSeniors Dinner-Bala<br \/>\nGlen Orchard Public School<span class=\"text_exposed_show\"><br \/>\nDockside Magazine<br \/>\nRosseau Lake College<br \/>\nPort Carling Dental<br \/>\nSouth Muskoka Shield Hockey Team<br \/>\nOntario Realtors Care Foundation<br \/>\nWomen&#8217;s Shoebox Project<br \/>\nPeninsula Lions Club<br \/>\nMuskoka Lumber<br \/>\nRotary Club of Bracebridge Muskoka Lakes<br \/>\nPort Carling Lions Club<br \/>\nSt Marks\/St Johns Anglican Church<br \/>\nSt James Anglican Church<br \/>\nChurch of the Kettles<br \/>\nCabin Savy<br \/>\nFoodland<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">Port Carling Fire Department<br \/>\nWindermere Fire Department<br \/>\nTim Hortons<br \/>\nZion Presbyterian, Torrance<br \/>\nBala Freshmart<br \/>\nBala Post Office<br \/>\nTrinity All-Saints in Bala<br \/>\nPort Carling United Church<br \/>\nPinegrove Church<br \/>\nLoblaws<br \/>\nDollarama<br \/>\nShamrock Lodge Toy Drive\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There are a few late additions we omitted and would like to include &#8211; Canadian Tire Gravenhurst, Seniors Dinner-Bala, Youth Friends Association of Canada, the Food and Financial Drive, Township of Muskoka Lakes, Bala Firefighters Association and all the residents of Port Carling who supported the Fire Departments Christmas Eve Food Drive on the fire truck.<\/p>\n<div class=\"text_exposed_show\">\n<p>We thank you all for your continued support and wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy and healthy 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas is a wonderful time of year but it can also be a very difficult time of year for many families. With the help of volunteers, community groups and individual donations, we helped over eighty families and gave them a full Christmas dinner, toys to put under their tree and the feeling that the Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westmuskokafoodbank.org\/hdapi\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}