{"id":79076,"date":"2017-10-16T08:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T15:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=79076"},"modified":"2017-10-20T06:28:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T13:28:31","slug":"local-schools-give-back-to-hurricane-harvey-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/10\/16\/local-schools-give-back-to-hurricane-harvey-victims\/","title":{"rendered":"Local schools give back to Hurricane Harvey victims"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_79080\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79080\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79080\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hillview-donate-to-Harvey-victims-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hillview-donate-to-Harvey-victims-1.jpg 734w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hillview-donate-to-Harvey-victims-1-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79080\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff at Hillview ASD volunteered their time for the school supply drive. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">PALMDALE \u2013 Westside Union School District held a school supply drive recently to help a Texas school district that was affected by Hurricane Harvey.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Westside partnered with the West Antelope Valley Educational Foundation, The North Antelope Valley Council of PTA\u2019s, Hillview Middle School ASB and community members to collect more than 3,000 items to help Katy International School District from Houston, Texas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_79079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79079\" style=\"width: 288px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79079\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Hillview-donate-to-Harvey-victims-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"266\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The group loaded a Uhaul with 54 boxes. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each Westside school was assigned a specific item to donate, such as lined paper, pencils, binders and glue sticks, and t<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he overall goal was to donate 300 of each item. The goal was met, with some schools far exceeding it. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additionally, community members donated items from Amazon that were shipped to Hillview Middle School, and many students volunteered their time to package the items after school. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Students and staff loaded a Uhaul with 54 boxes, then a community member volunteered to deliver the items to Katy ISD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe are grateful to provide these much-needed school supplies to the students of Katy ISD,\u201d stated Westside Union School District Superintendent Regina Rossall. \u201cAt the same time, we thank them for allowing us to have the opportunity to teach our students the importance of giving back to our communities.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katy ISD is a fairly large school district with 60 campuses and enrolled over 70,000 students this year. It was reported that 16 of its campuses were flooded by Hurricane Harvey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_79078\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79078\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79078\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-1.jpg 735w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-1-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79078\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and staff at Katy ISD show their appreciation. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure id=\"attachment_79077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79077\" style=\"width: 734px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79077\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"734\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-2.jpg 734w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Katy-ISD-receive-donations-2-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 734px) 100vw, 734px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 Westside Union School District held a school supply drive recently to help a Texas school district that was affected by Hurricane Harvey.\u00a0 Westside partnered with the West Antelope Valley Educational Foundation, The North Antelope Valley Council of PTA\u2019s, Hillview Middle School ASB and community members to collect more than 3,000 items to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79076"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}