{"id":1135,"date":"2013-02-01T21:45:16","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T02:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1135"},"modified":"2013-02-02T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T13:33:23","slug":"golf-divisions-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1135","title":{"rendered":"Imagine…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…leaving the dinner table hungry.\u00a0 I am sure there were times as a child we left hungry because we refused to eat our spinach or liver, but that was by choice.\u00a0 Imagine leaving hungry because there was no food.\u00a0 Imagine as a parent not being able to provide enough food to fill up hungry stomachs.\u00a0 Imagine never\u00a0standing in front of a\u00a0 cabinet for a snack or a treat and trying to decide between a cookie,\u00a0 a pretzel or a candy.\u00a0 Imagine having no fruit; no apples, no bananas, no oranges.\u00a0\u00a0I personally can’t imagine it, although I have seen it.\u00a0 Many years ago I was a Director of a Haven for Homeless Families, which also had a Food Pantry.\u00a0 The Haven was\u00a0founded by an individual that had become aware that there were homeless families living on the banks of the Passaic River in New Jersey.\u00a0 \u00a0They hid their homelessness because they did not want to be broken up.\u00a0 There were only shelters for men and shelters for woman, none for couples.\u00a0 The Haven had three homes that \u00a0offered transitional housing for families and a family would stay\u00a0any where from six months to one year, or in some caases even longer.\u00a0 I can’t get into the details of the Homes or the Pantry, as my blog would be too long, but I\u00a0have never forgotten the expressions of appreciation\u00a0and of hope on the faces of the recipients, as you handed them the keys to a house or a bag of food.\u00a0 We may not have a Haven here, but we do have food pantries and\u00a0 The Villages Golf Division is in the midst of its annual food drive to benefit the Wildwood Soup Kitchen, Wildwood Food Pantry and Lady Lake’s Christian Food Pantry.\u00a0 The drop-off points are at all the Country Club golf starter buildings, and also at the Glenview Tennis and Country Club administration.\u00a0 There will also be pre-addressed envelopes in the event some one would like to make a monetary donations, which are tax deductible.\u00a0 The pantry’s most needed items are canned vegetables, fruit and meat; barbecue and spagetti sauce; canned beans; rice and pasta. \u00a0 In 2012 the pantry distributed more than 206,000 pounds of food.\u00a0 The Wildwood Soup Kitchen’s volunteers prepare and serve 250 hot, nutritious lunches daily, six days a week.\u00a0 About half the guests are walk-ins while another 140 receive home delivery.\u00a0 So many of us talk about cutting down on what we eat, and\u00a0going on diets, and yet if you look in our cupboards they are most often brimming with food.\u00a0 If all of us would just\u00a0pick three or four items, pop them in a bag and drop them off at a\u00a0Country Club starter building, what a difference it would make in someones life.\u00a0\u00a0They will be accepting food through Monday, so on your way to have some fun this week-end, if you could take a few minutes and make a delivery of your own, it will be greatly appreciated.\u00a0 In the event you are not sure where to drop it off, stop in at the Pro Shop and I’m sure they can point you in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…leaving the dinner table hungry.\u00a0 I am sure there were times as a child we left hungry because we refused to eat our spinach or liver, but that was by choice.\u00a0 Imagine leaving hungry because there was no food.\u00a0 Imagine as a parent not being able to provide enough food to fill up hungry stomachs.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1135"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1139,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1135\/revisions\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}