{"id":9688,"date":"2026-01-18T21:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2026-01-18T21:28:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T02:28:39","slug":"packing-food-and-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/2026\/01\/18\/packing-food-and-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Food and Fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We recently held our January Weekend Food for\u00a0Kids packing event, by which we provide 1900 bags of non-perishable food to children at six Title 1 elementary schools in Northern Virginia\u00a0who receive free or reduced-price meals. The students receive a food bag on Fridays so they have food on weekends, when school-provided meals are not available.\u00a0\u00a0Our monthly packings are held at Dominion Energy, our long-time partner for this amazing program.\u00a0\u00a0Dominion\u2019s critical support includes providing the space where we pack and staff who help pack the food and deliver the bags to the six schools in Fairfax and Prince William counties.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9691\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table1-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table1-194x300.jpg 194w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table1.jpg 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In addition to our members and Dominion Energy employees, participating in this month\u2019s packing event were volunteers from Nativity Parish, Springfield Golf and Country Club, and Hassinger\/Armm Associates.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s always a fun time of laughter, friendship, and music when we gather to pack food for children in need.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"173\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9692\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table2-173x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table2-173x300.jpg 173w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Table2.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about us and what you can do to support our programs elsewhere on this site.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Group-Table3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"154\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-9690\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Group-Table3-300x154.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Group-Table3-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/70\/2026\/01\/Group-Table3.jpg 599w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently held our January Weekend Food for\u00a0Kids packing event, by which we provide 1900 bags of non-perishable food to children at six Title 1 elementary schools in Northern Virginia\u00a0who receive free or reduced-price meals. The students receive a food bag on Fridays so they have food on weekends, when school-provided meals are not available.\u00a0\u00a0Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65463,"featured_media":9689,"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-9688","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\/9688","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=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9693,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/northern-virginia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}