{"id":8220,"date":"2019-10-24T14:56:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=8220"},"modified":"2019-10-24T14:56:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T18:56:26","slug":"president-mccormick-e-town-community-support-local-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2019\/10\/24\/president-mccormick-e-town-community-support-local-food-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"President McCormick, E-town Community Support Local Food Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Elizabethtown College President Cecilia M. McCormick, J.D. celebrated the week of inauguration with a food drive event. The College&#8217;s 15th president partnered with the Elizabethtown Borough community to organize the food drive and donated items to the Community Cupboard of Elizabethtown and Elizabethtown Community Housing &amp; Outreach Services (ECHOS).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8223 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd3-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was important for me to connect the inaugural activities to our College motto, Educate for Service,&#8221; President McCormick said. &#8220;The Food Drive engages our students, faculty, and staff in helping others in need while staying grounded in our mission. Food insecurity is a concern in our Elizabethtown community, and I am thrilled that our College and greater-E-town community can come together to support one another.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>E-town students, faculty, staff, and the surrounding community donated more than 1,200 items. The group also donated $500 to the organizations that supply resources to low-income families.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8222 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/now.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/files\/2019\/10\/fd2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Elizabethtown College President Cecilia M. McCormick, J.D. celebrated the week of inauguration with a food drive event. The College&#8217;s 15th president partnered with the Elizabethtown Borough community to organize the food drive and donated items to the Community Cupboard of Elizabethtown and Elizabethtown Community Housing &amp; Outreach Services (ECHOS). \u201cIt was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":8223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[775,7],"tags":[1257,309,1256],"class_list":["post-8220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-campus-community","tag-community","tag-educate-for-service","tag-food-drive","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8225,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8220\/revisions\/8225"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}