{"id":11616,"date":"2025-12-22T07:50:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T15:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/?p=11616"},"modified":"2026-01-12T08:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T16:39:24","slug":"holiday-gifts-for-seniors-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/2025\/12\/22\/holiday-gifts-for-seniors-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Gifts for Seniors in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"42\" data-end=\"456\">Volunteers from <strong data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"99\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Assistance League of Bend<\/span><\/span><\/strong> are spreading holiday cheer across Deschutes County through their beloved <strong data-start=\"174\" data-end=\"190\">Secret Santa<\/strong> program, which fulfills holiday wishes for seniors living in long-term care facilities in <strong data-start=\"281\" data-end=\"322\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bend<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"324\" data-end=\"365\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">La Pine<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, <strong data-start=\"367\" data-end=\"408\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Redmond<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, and <strong data-start=\"414\" data-end=\"455\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Sisters<\/span><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"458\" data-end=\"793\">Working with the care facilities, volunteers gathered personalized gift requests\u2014from warm socks and blankets to books and keepsakes\u2014bringing comfort and joy to each recipient. On December 16, the festive \u201cSecret Santa Squad\u201d delivered\u00a0 <strong data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"724\">405 wrapped gifts to Medicaid patients<\/strong>, ensuring seniors felt remembered and cared for during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"795\" data-end=\"912\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Now in its third decade, this tradition continues to remind seniors that they are valued members of the community.\ud83c\udf84<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers from Assistance League of Bend are spreading holiday cheer across Deschutes County through their beloved Secret Santa program, which fulfills holiday wishes for seniors living in long-term care facilities in Bend, La Pine, Redmond, and Sisters. Working with the care facilities, volunteers gathered personalized gift requests\u2014from warm socks and blankets to books and keepsakes\u2014bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20438,"featured_media":11620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secret-santa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11616"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11616\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/bend\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}