{"id":185782,"date":"2019-12-04T14:00:39","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185782"},"modified":"2019-12-05T06:51:17","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T12:51:17","slug":"uj-mens-womens-basketball-games-shoe-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=185782","title":{"rendered":"Samaritan&#8217;s Feet Shoe Drive Wed Dec 4, at UJ games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-162137\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/SamaritansFeet.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"57\" \/>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The UJ men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams invite the community to the \u00a0Samaritan\u2019s Feet Barefoot Basketball Games and Shoe Drive to be held on <strong>Wednesday, December 4<\/strong> as the Jimmies host Dordt University in a doubleheader at the Harold Newman Arena. The women\u2019s game will tip off at 6-pm followed by the men\u2019s game at 8-pm.<\/p>\n<p>Fans\u00a0 in attendance donating new children\u2019s shoes will be admitted to the game for free. \u00a0(One free admittance per pair of shoes.) The need is for athletic shoes in size Toddler 10-13 or Children\u2019s 1-5.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Thad Sankey and his women\u2019s basketball staff along with Coach Danny Neville and his men\u2019s basketball staff will coach their games in their bare feet to help bring awareness to the need for shoes across the United States U.S. and worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, February 1st, a shoe distribution will be held to benefit local students in area communities<\/p>\n<p>Samaritan\u2019s Feet, Regional Director, Denise Blomberg says, \u201cSamaritan\u2019s Feet is thrilled to continue to partner with the University of Jamestown. Their efforts to encourage servant leadership among their coaches, student athletes and university as a whole is such a blessing to not only our organization but to Jamestown and the surrounding communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The University of Jamestown this year, organized the first-ever Samaritan\u2019s Feet Global Ambassadors chapter as a student organization with over 60 members, as it served as a template for student engagement for other colleges and universities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Ambassadors Chapter was recognized by the University of Jamestown Office of Student Life this past spring for Outstanding Event, Outstanding Group Advisor, Dr. Mika Thorlakson and Outstanding Student Organization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown\u00a0 (CSi)\u00a0 The UJ men\u2019s and women\u2019s basketball teams invite the community to the \u00a0Samaritan\u2019s Feet Barefoot Basketball Games and Shoe Drive to be held on Wednesday, December 4 as the Jimmies host Dordt University in a doubleheader at the Harold Newman Arena. The women\u2019s game will tip off at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185782"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185782\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186279,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185782\/revisions\/186279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}