{"id":57834,"date":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-police-want-community-to-stuff-cruisers-with-toys-for-needy-ill-children\/"},"modified":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T00:00:00","slug":"uri-police-want-community-to-stuff-cruisers-with-toys-for-needy-ill-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/12\/uri-police-want-community-to-stuff-cruisers-with-toys-for-needy-ill-children\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 Police want community to stuff cruisers with toys for needy, ill children"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tHoliday toy drive being held in North Kingstown this weekend, continuing at 溏心vlog免费B站 Police Department in Kingston<\/b><\/p>\n


\nKINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2015 \u2014 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Police Department has made a habit of helping out a local family every winter by collecting donations to provide them with toys and food for the holidays. Recognizing a rising need, the department is ramping up its efforts this year by hosting a Stuff a Cruiser Holiday Toy Drive.<\/p>\n


\nThe police department will send two vehicles to Walmart, 1031 Ten Rod Road in North Kingstown, on Saturday, Dec. 12 and Sunday, Dec. 13 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. each day. They will collect donations of toys to brighten up the holidays for local children in need. In addition, they will accept donations at the campus police station, 85 Briar Lane on the Kingston Campus through December 15.<\/p>\n


\nThey\u2019re asking members of the community to donate new, unwrapped toys \u2013 enough to stuff the cruisers \u2013 to benefit underprivileged children, as well young patients at Hasbro Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/p>\n


\nThe department is also accepting monetary donations, which it will use to purchase $75 gift cards to Stop & Shop, so needy families can enjoy a holiday meal and\/or a week\u2019s worth of groceries. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cThis is one of the best parts of being a police officer, to be able to do something nice for the people of our community,\u201d said 溏心vlog免费B站 Police Officer Paul Hanrahan. \u201cI wish we could adopt our one family and help them out, but that\u2019s not enough anymore. The need is so great, we knew we needed to try to do something bigger.\u201d <\/p>\n


\nThe police department has teamed up with Christ the King Church, located on the Kingston Campus, to drum up support and help distribute the toys. The church has mailed out 2,000 notices informing its members of the drive, and it will help the police department distribute the donations to needy families. <\/p>\n


\n\u201cOur hopes are high,\u201d Hanrahan said. \u201cWe hope to fill both cruisers and, if we\u2019re lucky enough to do that, we\u2019ll swap them out with another cruiser to keep it going. We want to help as many families as we can.\u201d <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Holiday toy drive being held in North Kingstown this weekend, continuing at 溏心vlog免费B站 Police Department in Kingston KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 December 8, 2015 \u2014 The 溏心vlog免费B站 Police Department has made a habit of helping out a local family every winter by collecting donations to provide them with toys and food for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}