{"id":877,"date":"2016-01-29T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/?p=877"},"modified":"2016-01-26T17:28:11","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T00:28:11","slug":"2016-food-drive-you-can-fight-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/2016\/01\/29\/2016-food-drive-you-can-fight-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Food Drive: YOU Can Fight Hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each February, Oregon State University comes together to raise money for the <a href=\"http:\/\/communityservices.us\/nutrition\/detail\/category\/linn-benton-food-share\/\">Linn-Benton Food Share<\/a> and the College of Forestry participates and contributes competitively in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n<p>The College of Forestry has raised the most money and won the &#8220;Top Banana&#8221; award for <strong>15 consecutive years<\/strong>, raising a total of $14,902.89 last year for the Linn-Benton Food Share.\u00a0 That money is equivalent to 59,612 pounds of food that was used to feed those in need in <em>our<\/em> community.<\/p>\n<p>We will again be hosting events to raise funds for the Linn-Benton Food Share this February!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here is how you can get involved this year!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Purchase raffle tickets to win the handmade quilt<\/li>\n<li>Provide baked goods for the Bake Sale and items for the Valentine&#8217;s Day Auction<\/li>\n<li>Make and\/or serve soups at the Soup Lunches<\/li>\n<li>Donate books, CDs, DVDs, and other items for the book sale<\/li>\n<li>Purchase items at all of the events!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Another way you can make a difference is by volunteering at the Linn-Benton Food Share with the College of Forestry on Saturday, February 20th from 10:00-12:00 pm. This is a repacking event, which means we will be repackaging 50 pound bags of rice, beans, and oats into 1 pound bags to be distributed across the community. Partners and children are welcome to participate. If you are interested, please RSVP to Jessica Fitzmorris by February 15 at <a href=\"mailto:Jessica.fitzmorris@oregonstate.edu\">Jessica.fitzmorris@oregonstate.edu<\/a> or call 737-3161. The Linn Benton Food Share is located at 33747 Looney Lane, Tangent.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s win the &#8220;Top Banana&#8221; prize again this year and make a difference in our community!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/files\/2016\/01\/blog-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-878 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/files\/2016\/01\/blog-1-193x300.png\" alt=\"blog 1\" width=\"193\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each February, Oregon State University comes together to raise money for the Linn-Benton Food Share and the College of Forestry participates and contributes competitively in a variety of ways. The College of Forestry has raised the most money and won the &#8220;Top Banana&#8221; award for 15 consecutive years, raising a total of $14,902.89 last year &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/2016\/01\/29\/2016-food-drive-you-can-fight-hunger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;2016 Food Drive: YOU Can Fight Hunger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6307,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6wiya-e9","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6307"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/fernhopper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}