{"id":92144,"date":"2020-03-25T08:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=92144"},"modified":"2020-03-25T14:21:32","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T21:21:32","slug":"goodwill-dont-leave-donations-outside-during-covid-19-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/03\/25\/goodwill-dont-leave-donations-outside-during-covid-19-crisis\/","title":{"rendered":"Goodwill: Don’t leave donations outside during COVID-19 crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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LANCASTER – Goodwill Southern California is appealing for the public not to leave donations outside its storefront entrances and donation centers while they are shut down during the COVID-19 crisis.<\/p>\n

Donations quickly become trash — in what is becoming a community safety hazard — when left outside the stores during the mandate by state and local officials for non-essential businesses to cease operations, according to a statement issued by Goodwill Southern California.<\/p>\n

“It absolutely has been a big problem, especially with the rain,” said Marla Eby, director of marketing and media relations for Goodwill Southern California. “We know everybody’s at home wanting to de-clutter.”<\/p>\n

Goodwill Southern California said it will welcome donations when its stores re-open. They’re asking donors to help prepare their donations by pre-sorting items into specific categories such as clothing and home goods so they can quickly be priced for sale.<\/p>\n

The closure includes all of Goodwill Southern California’s retail stores, outlet stores, donation centers and bookstores\/boutiques in its territory, which includes all locations in Los Angeles County.<\/p>\n

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LANCASTER – Goodwill Southern California is appealing for the public not to leave donations outside its storefront entrances and donation centers while they are shut down during the COVID-19 crisis. Donations quickly become trash — in what is becoming a community safety hazard — when left outside the stores during the mandate by state and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92145,"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":[1499,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92144"}],"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=92144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}