{"id":608717,"date":"2009-11-30T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/?p=17224"},"modified":"2009-11-30T16:03:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-30T21:03:42","slug":"lady-vols-and-mission-of-hope-team-up-for-toy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/608717","title":{"rendered":"Lady Vols and Mission of Hope Team up for Toy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/mohlogo1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17228\" title=\"mohlogo\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.utk.edu\/tntoday\/wp-content\/uploads\/mohlogo1.jpg?resize=300%2C137\" alt=\"mohlogo\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tennessee Athletics and the Mission of Hope will team up Tuesday, Dec. 1 to collect toys for this year&#8217;s Mission of Hope Toy Drive. Fans that donate a new toy will receive free admission to the match-up against George Washington. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our fans are always so giving this time of year,&#8221; Women&#8217;s Athletic Director Joan Cronan said.  &#8220;It&#8217;s such a great feeling to be part of something that positively affects so many people in our area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Collection bins will be located at the Thompson-Boling Arena Ticket Office as well as the northwest and northeast gates beginning at 5:30 p.m. tomorrow. Suggested items include sports balls and equipment, action figure sets, fashion doll sets, arts &amp; crafts sets, hand-held games for children ages 10-14.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Tennessee Athletic Department and the Mission of Hope will be at collection sites accepting toy donations. Gates will open at 6 p.m. For more information call 974-4114.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionofhope.org\/index.htm\">Mission of Hope<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Mission of Hope is a nonprofit organization that serves and assists children and families in dire need throughout numerous distressed communities in rural Appalachia. The group has several ministries include Christmas and back-to-school campaigns, health care events and construction and resource ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Athletics and the Mission of Hope will team up Tuesday, Dec. 1 to collect toys for this year&#8217;s Mission of Hope Toy Drive. Fans that donate a new toy will receive free admission to the match-up against George Washington. Tip-off is set for 7 p.m. at Thompson-Boling Arena. &#8220;Our fans are always so giving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":422,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ym1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}