{"id":7894,"date":"2023-02-28T10:54:29","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2023-02-28T10:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-28T15:56:13","slug":"a-fabulous-food-filled-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2023\/02\/28\/a-fabulous-food-filled-february\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fabulous Food-Filled February"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dedicated members joined employees of Dominion Energy and friends from Sandy Spring Bank and RBH Global Wealth to pack bags of nonperishable food for delivery to six schools in Fairfax and Prince William counties this month.\u00a0 In just over an hour, thanks in part to the lively background music that accompanies this effort, we packed 1680 bags of food and delivered them to the schools the same day.\u00a0 We also provided grocery gift cards to a seventh school.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7897\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers pack bags for the Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-1024x703.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-768x527.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-958x657.jpg 958w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite-583x400.jpg 583w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2top-lite.jpg 1077w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were able to enhance this month\u2019s food deliveries because of a donation by Dominion Energy of disinfecting wipes.\u00a0 Dominion, a long-time supporter of Assistance League of Northern Virginia and our Weekend Food for Kids program, donated 126 containers of the wipes that were provided to the schools.\u00a0 All our school contacts greatly appreciated receiving the disinfectants. \u00a0One school administrator who happened to be using a wipe to disinfect a desk when the deliveries were made, remarked: \u201cWe use a lot of those wipes every day. Thank you very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_286151953272768428yiv1761574533yqtfd34194\">\n<p>We are very grateful to partner with many caring people and organizations to do so much good in the community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7896\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath-300x242.jpg\" alt=\"An assembly line of workers for the Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath-300x242.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath-768x620.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath-495x400.jpg 495w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Table2-cropLite-PatKath.jpg 864w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteers pack bags for kids at the Weekend Food for Kids event\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped-768x456.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped-958x569.jpg 958w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped-673x400.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2023\/02\/Tab1-end-ChipSchoolCropped.jpg 1018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dedicated members joined employees of Dominion Energy and friends from Sandy Spring Bank and RBH Global Wealth to pack bags of nonperishable food for delivery to six schools in Fairfax and Prince William counties this month.\u00a0 In just over an hour, thanks in part to the lively background music that accompanies this effort, we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":7898,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7900,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions\/7900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}