{"id":79507,"date":"2017-11-22T18:06:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T02:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=79507"},"modified":"2017-11-28T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T23:54:08","slug":"saves-distributes-300-thanksgiving-basket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2017\/11\/22\/saves-distributes-300-thanksgiving-basket\/","title":{"rendered":"SAVES distributes 300 Thanksgiving baskets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_79522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79522\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79522\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SAVES-Thanksgiving.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SAVES-Thanksgiving.jpg 735w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/SAVES-Thanksgiving-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[L to R] SAVES volunteers, Cindy Gonzalez and Maribel Beltran helped with the basket distribution. [Contributed]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale\u2019s South Antelope Valley Emergency Services (SAVES) distributed 300 Thanksgiving baskets to local residents Tuesday in their annual Thanksgiving Holiday Basket Giveaway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to provide a traditional Thanksgiving meal and make the holiday a little brighter for families and individuals who may be struggling a bit thanks to the generosity of so many individuals and organizations who donated food and money,&#8221; stated SAVES Manager Patricia Morales. \u201cThese baskets will help feed more than 1,100 people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Among the donations that helped make the giveaway a success was a $3,300 gift by Unitis Contractor Supply in Palmdale to provide turkeys for the baskets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had over 50 volunteers helping us with the distribution as well,\u201d Morales added. \u201cI can\u2019t thank our dedicated volunteers enough for all they do to help our clients.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The holiday gift baskets include items such as a 12 lb. Turkey, stuffing, canned vegetables, cranberry sauce, instant mashed potatoes, canned sweet potatoes, boxed macaroni and cheese, corn muffin mix, juice, fresh fruit and vegetables and pumpkin\u00a0 pie.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on SAVES, contact 661-267-5191.<\/p>\n<h6><em>(Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.)<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 The city of Palmdale\u2019s South Antelope Valley Emergency Services (SAVES) distributed 300 Thanksgiving baskets to local residents Tuesday in their annual Thanksgiving Holiday Basket Giveaway. \u201cWe were able to provide a traditional Thanksgiving meal and make the holiday a little brighter for families and individuals who may be struggling a bit thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":79522,"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":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79507"}],"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=79507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}