{"id":89061,"date":"2015-12-04T07:09:16","date_gmt":"2015-12-04T13:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89061"},"modified":"2015-12-05T11:03:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-05T17:03:37","slug":"gold-coin-dropped-in-jmst-salvation-army-kettle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=89061","title":{"rendered":"Gold coin dropped in Salvation Army kettle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goldcoin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-89068\" alt=\"goldcoin\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/goldcoin-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Everything from a penny to $500,000 has been dropped into a red kettle this holiday season. \u00a0Now, thanks to a donation in Jamestown, the Salvation Army can add a gold coin to that list.<\/p>\n<p>The 2015 American Eagle one-half ounce gold proof coin retails for $720 at the United States mint, while the current price for gold is around $500 per half ounce. The Jamestown Salvation Army stands to gain somewhere between those two\u00a0figures.\u00a0 The gold coin was most likely dropped into a kettle near Cash Wise in the Plaza Mall sometime Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Major Tim Nauta, says \u201cGiving has been slow so far this year, so this gives us a nice boost,\u00a0 Our Christmas Campaign is way behind so we&#8217;ll take all the donations and volunteer bell ringers we can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only 18 bell ringing days remain and there are still plenty of two hour volunteer shifts available at locations across Jamestown. It&#8217;s easy to sign up either call\u00a0 701-252-0290 or\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/salvationarmynorth.org\/community\/jamestown\/community-pages\/volunteering-13\/\">register online to ring a bell<\/a>\u00a0at Buffalo Mall, Park Plaza Mall, Walmart or Cash Wise.<\/p>\n<p>Major Nauta adds, &#8220;This is our greatest fundraising campaign of the year Christmas may seem far off, but it&#8217;s really right around the corner and we need all the help we can get.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0you can find\u00a0Angel Trees at the Buffalo Mall where there&#8217;s two trees and another at Stutsman Harley Davidson, 2501 3rd Ave. SW. Simply take a tag from the tree and give a gift to somebody who would otherwise go without.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not the only large donation to a Salvation Army kettle in the region this holiday season. Someone put a<a title=\"$500,000 check\" href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=88743\" target=\"_blank\"> $500,000 check <\/a>into a kettle in Minneapolis late last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything from a penny to $500,000 has been dropped into a red kettle this holiday season. \u00a0Now, thanks to a donation in Jamestown, the Salvation Army can add a gold coin to that list. The 2015 American Eagle one-half ounce gold proof coin retails for $720 at the United States [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":87489,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89061","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=89061"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89187,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89061\/revisions\/89187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}