{"id":67,"date":"2020-10-23T21:04:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/2020\/10\/23\/2020-10-16-osb-memories\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:35:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T18:35:49","slug":"2020-10-16-osb-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/2020\/10\/23\/2020-10-16-osb-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"OSB Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p>As a member, one of the events I enjoy most is Operation School Bell. I enjoy seeing the happiness on the children&#8217;s faces when they pick out their new school clothing and leave the store with even more than that. As they check out, we members put a dental kit in their bag and they get to pick out a hand knitted hat or scarf made with love from one of our many knitting volunteers.<\/p>\n<p><em>-submitted by Debbie Palmer, ALE Member 2020-21<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I was told about ALE by a friend, but it wasn\u2019t until I was doing my routine shopping at Fred Meyer in Redmond about 5 years ago, I saw a bunch of people with smiles and aprons and a big line that I decided to become a member. I asked one of the volunteers about what was going on, was told about the OSB program, and I was amazed that ALE was doing so much to help all the families lined up and ready to shop. I attended a New Members Coffee and the rest is history.<\/p>\n<p>The following year when I worked OSB for myself, I was able to be a shopping assistant, a bagger, and hand out hats and scarves. I enjoyed helping little ones with their clothing choices, but I really loved handing out hats and scarves! I witnessed a little girl of about six years old literally jumping for joy after she came over to the hat cart and said incredulously, \u201cThese are for us? We get a hat too?\u201d I said that she could pick out whichever one she wanted, and she jumped up and down and yelled to her mom, \u201cMom, I get a hat TOO!\u201d It was the reaction that most kids would display being told they were going to Disneyland. It was so touching and rewarding to see. I try to donate yarn every time I hear about a yarn drive for our senior knitters in hopes that some other child will experience a moment of joy like that, and know that a volunteer somewhere is wishing them warmth and comfort.<\/p>\n<p><em>-submitted by Kendra Valentine, ALE Member 2020-21<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As a member, one of the events I enjoy most is Operation School Bell. I enjoy seeing the happiness on the children&#8217;s faces when they pick out their new school clothing and leave the store with even more than that. As they check out, we members put a dental kit in their bag and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66714,"featured_media":0,"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":[63],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-osb","tag-osb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7332,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/7332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.assistanceleague.org\/the-eastside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}