{"id":4228,"date":"2012-09-19T09:43:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4228"},"modified":"2012-09-19T16:43:44","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T21:43:44","slug":"stuff-the-bus-drive-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=4228","title":{"rendered":"Stuff The Bus Drive, A Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/busstuff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1783\" title=\"busstuff\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/busstuff-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 19, 2012) &#8212; Kim Diede, at the Buffalo Mall thanks the community for supporting this year\u2019s Stuff The Bus drive, to donate school supplies to less fortunate children.<\/p>\n<p>Thank You\u2019s went out to cash donors, including Jamestown Service Clubs, local businesses, <em>Community Members<\/em> ,and Eventide at Hi-Acres, &#8220;Dream Team, &#8221; along with the VFW and Ladies Auxilary, and Bison 6 Cinema.<\/p>\n<p>She says donations are still coming in.<\/p>\n<p>Donations were collected at the Buffalo Mall, Riddles Jewelry, Gate City Bank, Anytime Fitness &amp; Top Designers.<\/p>\n<p>\u3000<\/p>\n<p>She explained how cash donations are managed.<\/p>\n<p>Every week the school supplies were counted to arrive at the exact number of notebooks, pencils, and etc.<\/p>\n<p>The week leading up to school the mall was in contact with RaeAnn at community action to see how many were on her needs list, including ages and genders.<\/p>\n<p>The mall then shops for the items low on, such as pencils, (50 received).<\/p>\n<p>Notebooks and water paints were also low.<\/p>\n<p>Calculators and flash drives were purchased. (They are higher ends items and are more expensive)<\/p>\n<p>Backpacks range from $8.00-23.00 and 150 were needed.<\/p>\n<p>As of 2 weeks ago there were 61.<\/p>\n<p>A phone call from Gate City Bank enquired how the drive was going, and the bank offered to donate 80 backpacks.<\/p>\n<p>More backs came in since receiving their donation, reaching the goal of 150.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Diede added, the need in the community is high.<\/p>\n<p>The families on the list are hard working families working 2 jobs to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>She said the Stuff the Bus Committee is so grateful for having a wonderful community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamestown, ND (KCSi-T.V. News Sept 19, 2012) &#8212; Kim Diede, at the Buffalo Mall thanks the community for supporting this year\u2019s Stuff The Bus drive, to donate school supplies to less fortunate children. Thank You\u2019s went out to cash donors, including Jamestown Service Clubs, local businesses, Community Members ,and Eventide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-jamestown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4229,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}