{"id":10334,"date":"2012-03-23T12:40:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T19:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2012-06-30T12:18:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-30T19:18:13","slug":"serve-your-community-for-cesar-chavez-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/03\/23\/serve-your-community-for-cesar-chavez-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Serve your community for C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez week"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10335\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chavez-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10335\" title=\"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chavez-2-250x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chavez-2-250x300.jpg 250w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/chavez-2.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week takes place from March 26-30.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LANCASTER \u2013 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are strongly encouraging residents countywide to participate in the 11<sup>th<\/sup> Annual C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week by volunteering at county public libraries, local food banks, and homeless shelters.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week takes place from March 26 through March 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cC\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez is an American hero not only for his accomplishments as a labor organizer but as a civil rights leader and non-violent protestor,\u201d said County Supervisor Gloria Molina. \u201cC\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez dedicated his life to improving the conditions of workers who harvest the food which feeds our nation. Cesar Chavez exemplified what it means to be an American through his lifelong commitment to democracy, justice, and dignity for working people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Day was adopted by the State Legislature in 2001. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared the first C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week in 2002.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Lancaster Library will be participating in the C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week.<\/strong> Volunteer assignments for residents looking to serve their community include homework help, story time reading, sorting, straightening, cleaning books, and craft preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The Lancaster Library is located at 601 W. Lancaster Blvd. and is open from 2-5 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday. Call 661-948-5029 for more information.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about labor leader and civil rights activist C\u00e9sar E. Ch\u00e1vez <a title=\"About Cesar Chavez\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colapublib.org\/chavez\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors are strongly encouraging residents countywide to participate in the 11th Annual C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week by volunteering at county public libraries, local food banks, and homeless shelters. This year\u2019s C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Community Service Week takes place from March 26 through March 30. \u201cC\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}