{"id":68498,"date":"2015-11-20T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/?p=68498"},"modified":"2015-11-20T14:53:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:53:37","slug":"staff-council-begins-dsu-toy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2015\/11\/staff-council-begins-dsu-toy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Staff Council begins DSU Toy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This Delta State holiday season has once again kicked into\u00a0the spirit of giving. Help members contribute to this year&#8217;s annual DSU Toy Drive, running until Dec. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unwrapped gifts are sought for children from infancy\u00a0to 10-years-old\u00a0and\u00a0will be donated to youth identified by the Bolivar County Family and Children&#8217;s Services.\u00a0<span class=\"s1\">The collection will end at the annual staff holiday breakfast on Dec. 17.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Delta State Administrative Council began the holiday gifting today by delivering a truckload of non-perishable food items to the BCFCS through its annual\u00a0Feed-A-Family food drive held each year before Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Feed-A-Family is as a way to give back to the DSU family and community,&#8221; said Rhonda Loper, project coordinator for the Okra Scholars program. &#8220;A special thanks to each of the staff who donated food and\/or time to make this years event a success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">For more information the DSU Toy Drive, contact Loper at <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"mailto:rloper@deltastate.edu\">rloper@deltastate.edu <\/a>or<\/span>\u00a0662-846-4504. Or contact Whitney Delaney at <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"mailto:wdelaney@deltastate.edu\">wdelaney@deltastate.edu<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<\/span>662-846-4113.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Delta State&#8217;s Staff Council serves as a liaison between the administration and the staff to provide a formal process for staff to discuss issues involving university policies and procedures and to forward ideas, recommendations and options to the president.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Delta State holiday season has once again kicked into\u00a0the spirit of giving. Help members contribute to this year&#8217;s annual DSU Toy Drive, running until Dec. 17. Unwrapped gifts are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":68501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,296,65],"tags":[586,1459,203,312,360],"class_list":["post-68498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-3","category-facultystaff","category-staff-council","tag-donations","tag-dsu-toy-drive","tag-feed-a-family","tag-holidays","tag-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68498"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68500,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68498\/revisions\/68500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}