{"id":591,"date":"2017-11-10T19:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-11-11T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/?p=591"},"modified":"2023-03-28T17:01:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T21:01:49","slug":"please-consider-donating-23rd-annual-blanket-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/please-consider-donating-23rd-annual-blanket-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Consider Donating &#8211; 23rd Annual Blanket Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>2017 REALTORS Care\u00ae Blanket Drive<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>Tuesday, November 14 to Tuesday, November 21<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>The need has never been greater.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<table border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">Let&#8217;s help keep the record number of homeless and working poor warm and dry this winter.<\/p>\n<p>Our network of\u00a0<dfn title=\"Real estate professionals who are members of a local real estate board and the Canadian Real Estate Association. Only these professionals can call themselves REALTORS\u00ae. \">REALTORS\u00ae<\/dfn> are\u00a0gearing up for another productive year of collecting warm clothes and blankets.<\/p>\n<p>Since it started 23 years ago, the Blanket Drive has helped\u00a0more than 300,000 people in our communities.<\/p>\n<p>This success is thanks to your donations!<\/p>\n<h4><strong>How you can help<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Please donate\u00a0the following items for all ages:<br \/>\n\u2022 gently used or new blankets or sleeping bags<br \/>\n\u2022 warm clothing, coats<br \/>\n\u2022 hats, gloves, scarves<br \/>\n\u2022 new socks and underwear<br \/>\n\u2022 plastic ponchos, bivy sacks<\/p>\n<p>Please take your donations to an office near you &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebgv.org\/blanket-drive-drop-locations-0\">Drop-off locations<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Please let us know if you would like us to pick up your donation on Sunday, November 19th. \u00a0Call or text Val at 604-831-4324. \u00a0Thank you!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The REALTORS Care\u00ae Blanket Drive is a partnership between the REALTORS\u00ae of the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the Fraser Valley Real Estate Board, and the Chilliwack and District Real Estate Board and their communities<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2017 REALTORS Care\u00ae Blanket Drive Tuesday, November 14 to Tuesday, November 21 The need has never been greater. Let&#8217;s help keep the record number of homeless and working poor warm &hellip; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/please-consider-donating-23rd-annual-blanket-drive\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":596,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions\/596"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juliafreeman.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}