{"id":15423,"date":"2016-01-23T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/?p=15423"},"modified":"2016-01-23T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:18:13","slug":"the-mlk-day-of-service-blanket-project-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/23\/the-mlk-day-of-service-blanket-project-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The MLK Day of Service Blanket Project – Part #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In our last PhotoCentral article, we showed you how volunteers were rebuilding and refurbishing Danville’s Little Free Libraries<\/a> at the annual “MLK Day of Service” sponsored by Averett’s Center for Community Engagement and Career Competitiveness<\/a>. But that wasn’t the only project going on that day! Volunteers also helped make t-shirt fleece blankets to be donated to the needy to keep warm in the cold weather. Let’s take a look at that creative service project in this and the next few articles…<\/p>\n

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We’re at Averett’s Grant Center on their North Campus…<\/p>\n

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Averett University president Tiffany Franks, her husband Joe and other volunteers are working on yet another blanket.<\/p><\/div>\n

Now let’s take a look at some of the blankets that have already been made…<\/p>\n

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We’ve got more from this service project coming up… only on SouthsideCentral!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In our last PhotoCentral article, we showed you how volunteers were rebuilding and refurbishing Danville’s Little Free Libraries at the annual “MLK Day of Service” sponsored by Averett’s Center for Community Engagement and Career Competitiveness. But that wasn’t the only project going on that day! Volunteers also helped make t-shirt fleece blankets to be donated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,6,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-danville","category-eventscentral","category-photocentral","odd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pwqFk-40L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15421,"url":"https:\/\/www.southsidecentral.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/22\/rebuilding-the-little-free-libraries\/","url_meta":{"origin":15423,"position":0},"title":"Rebuilding the Little Free Libraries","author":"SouthsideCentral","date":"January 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a snowy day in the Southside, so we're going to catch up on some PhotoCentral articles. 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