  {"id":4393,"date":"2023-12-04T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/?p=4393"},"modified":"2023-12-04T16:26:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T22:26:30","slug":"jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-vital-to-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-vital-to-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥&#8217;s \u201cChristmas with the Arts\u201d &amp; Salvation Army Toy Drive vital to the community<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4395\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/trees-with-gifts-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 After 11 years, Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s Christmas with the Arts toy drive continues to serve as a vital part of the annual Salvation Army\u2019s Angel Tree program. The community\u2019s donations of new unwrapped toys for admission to the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Christmas program have often provided hundreds of families some happiness during the holidays with these gifts. Toys will be distributed on Monday, December 11, to the nearly 250 families who signed up for the program, with 611 children needing a little Christmas joy. Salvation Army\u2019s Commanding Officer in Laurel, Captain Keisha McMullin explained that an additional 150 kids were added to the list this year, but she\u2019s grateful for the tremendous response from the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are several \u2018Angels\u2019 still hanging on the tree in the mall in Laurel and if no one adopts them, these gifts will fill those needs, so we don\u2019t have to purchase gifts. We are so thankful for what the college community does to help every year with this program. I wish everyone could see my smile right now looking at all these gifts!\u201d exclaimed Captain McMullin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Necessities and Christmas gifts are provided for disadvantaged children from infants to age 12, through the&nbsp;Salvation&nbsp;Army&nbsp;Angel Tree Program in Jones, Jasper, Wayne, Clarke, Smith and Simpson counties. For more information about the Angel Tree project, go to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/salvationarmyalm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/salvationarmyalm.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, call the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ of Art, Music and Performance Office at 601-477-4203 or follow Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Art, Music and Performance Facebook Page and Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/finale-ws1-1-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELLISVILLE \u2013 After 11 years, Âé¶¹Ö±²¥\u2019s Christmas with the Arts toy drive continues to serve as a vital part of the annual Salvation Army\u2019s Angel Tree program. The community\u2019s donations of new unwrapped toys for admission to the Âé¶¹Ö±²¥ Christmas program have often provided hundreds of families some happiness during the holidays with &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/news\/jones-colleges-christmas-with-the-arts-salvation-army-toy-drive-vital-to-the-community\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;<strong>Âé¶¹Ö±²¥&#8217;s \u201cChristmas with the Arts\u201d &amp; Salvation Army Toy Drive vital to the community<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4398,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4393\/revisions\/4398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jcjc.edu\/jcnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}