{"id":11519,"date":"2019-12-03T18:37:47","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=11519"},"modified":"2019-12-03T18:37:47","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T02:37:47","slug":"giving-thanks-by-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/giving-thanks-by-giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Giving thanks by giving back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Rylie Horrall\u00a0<\/strong> |\u00a0 Lifestyle Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thanksgiving is a time generally spent with loved ones, and is a time to think about what you\u2019re thankful for. In addition, it\u2019s a time of giving back, whether it\u2019s donating food to a food bank or volunteering at soup kitchens and homeless shelters. If you\u2019re interested in volunteering for the holiday, here\u2019s a couple options nearby Monmouth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Union Gospel Mission of Salem provides an opportunity for those in the community to volunteer to serve food to those in need. Volunteers can sign up to distribute food on Thanksgiving day during the main meal time, which takes place from 11 a.m.\u20132 p.m., and during dinner from 4:30\u20137 p.m. Along with serving food, they have set-up and clean-up opportunities for the event. According to their website, they have gotten an abundance of volunteers and may or may not need more for serving food. However, certain food items are still needed for holiday meals, and food can still be dropped off and donated from 9 a.m.\u20136 p.m. at the Men\u2019s Mission (345 Commercial St NE). More information can be found on their website ugmsalem.org.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Meals on Wheels has a branch in Salem and Keizer through Marion Polk Food Share. Volunteers that are interested can sign up to be a driver that delivers meals to seniors and disabled adults in the community. In addition to potentially delivering meals the week of Thanksgiving, participants can continue to deliver meals post holiday season. Drivers would transport nutritious meals between 11:30 a.m.\u20131 p.m. on Monday\u2013Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Try asking around as well, because you never know what other opportunities may be around. Happy Thanksgiving and holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:rhorrall17@mail.wou.edu\">rhorrall17@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rylie Horrall\u00a0 |\u00a0 Lifestyle Editor Thanksgiving is a time generally spent with loved ones, and is a time to think about what you\u2019re thankful for. In addition, it\u2019s a time of giving back, whether it\u2019s donating food to a food bank or volunteering at soup kitchens and homeless shelters. If you\u2019re interested in volunteering for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":10024,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}