{"id":4936,"date":"2012-10-03T10:19:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2012-10-04T09:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T14:35:08","slug":"massages-to-benefit-weekend-backpack-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4936","title":{"rendered":"Massages To Benefit Weekend Backpack Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/backpack-for-kids.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5005\" title=\"backpack for kids\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/backpack-for-kids-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; Jamestown professional Massage Therapists and Reflexologists will offer 10-minute stress-reducing massages for $10 for the public, to help them deal with stress, increase productivity, and improve their health.<\/p>\n<p>The day-long event, is being held in observance of National Massage Therapy Awareness Week, a national program sponsored by the American Therapy Association, the professional association for massage therapists.<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the Jamestown massages will go to the Jamestown Community Action, Region Six, Weekend Backpack Program.<\/p>\n<p>The massages will be offered on Thursday October 25, 2012, from 10-a.m., to 4-p.m. at the Jamestown Business Center.<\/p>\n<p>In conjunction with the therapies, Noridian will hold a bake sale from 10-a.m., to 2-p.m., with those proceeds also going to the Backpack program.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymous Weekend Backpack Program ensures that any child can receive a backpack to supplement their diets over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Each Friday, children at participating Jamestown schools are provided with backpacks filled with nutritious, non-perishable, easy-open, food items.<\/p>\n<p>The students learn responsibility by bringing the backpacks back to school, to be refilled each week.<\/p>\n<p>In Jamestown participating schools include:\u00a0 Washington, Roosevelt, and Louis L&#8217;Amour Elementary Schools.<\/p>\n<p>Funds and donations are from local churches, organizations, businesses, and individuals, to help sustain the program in individual schools.<\/p>\n<p>Dakota Brands is currently a sponsor and provides bagels each week for the children.<\/p>\n<p>Become a Backpack Buddy, with a $20 donation, which will help fill one child\u2019s backpack for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Other ways to support the program are by becoming a volunteer, specific food donations, donation of backpacks, and by helping to spread the word.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact Community Action, Region Six in Jamestown at 701-252-1821.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News) &#8212; Jamestown professional Massage Therapists and Reflexologists will offer 10-minute stress-reducing massages for $10 for the public, to help them deal with stress, increase productivity, and improve their health. The day-long event, is being held in observance of National Massage Therapy Awareness Week, a national program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936","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=4936"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5007,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4936\/revisions\/5007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}