{"id":7067,"date":"2022-02-23T10:02:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T15:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=7067"},"modified":"2022-02-24T18:49:38","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:49:38","slug":"the-return-of-weekend-food-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2022\/02\/23\/the-return-of-weekend-food-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Weekend Food for Kids!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our members were elated to be able to hold a Weekend Food for Kids food-packing event this month, after a 2-year hiatus. We were joined by employees of our long-time partner for this program, Dominion Energy Virginia. Experienced food-packers were joined by new volunteers and, in a little more than an hour, the 80 attendees packed <strong>1660 bags of food<\/strong> that were placed in large paper bags for delivery the same day to six elementary schools in Northern Virginia.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7073\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Bags of packed food as a result of ALNV Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1-768x454.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1-677x400.jpg 677w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Bags2Bdelivd-1.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, because of the uncertainties posed by the Corona virus, we don\u2019t expect that our food packings for the remainder of the school year will be open to the public.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7077\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"People packing food at ALNV Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1-603x400.jpg 603w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Table1-1.jpg 698w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/MaryAnnNancDan-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/MaryAnnNancDan-1-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"People and food bins at Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/MaryAnnNancDan-1-300x264.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/MaryAnnNancDan-1-455x400.jpg 455w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/MaryAnnNancDan-1.jpg 511w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Cheryl-Tab2-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Cheryl-Tab2-1-300x195.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers assisting with packing food at ALNV Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Cheryl-Tab2-1-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Cheryl-Tab2-1-615x400.jpg 615w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2022\/02\/Cheryl-Tab2-1.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our members were elated to be able to hold a Weekend Food for Kids food-packing event this month, after a 2-year hiatus. We were joined by employees of our long-time partner for this program, Dominion Energy Virginia. Experienced food-packers were joined by new volunteers and, in a little more than an hour, the 80 attendees [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":7075,"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":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7067"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7067\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}