{"id":19522,"date":"2019-11-12T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=19522"},"modified":"2019-11-12T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T15:06:09","slug":"student-government-association-holds-20th-annual-teddy-bear-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/student-government-association-holds-20th-annual-teddy-bear-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Government Association Holds 20th Annual Teddy Bear Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Student Government Association (SGA) is holding its 20<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Teddy Bear Drive this holiday season. Teddy bears and toys collected will be given to families of Head Start students in Monroe County during a holiday celebration that will take place on Saturday, December 7 from 9 a.m. \u2013 2 p.m. at ESU\u2019s Innovation Center, 562 Independence Road, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n<p>SGA has already collected 50 teddy bears, and hopes to get as many toys. \u201cFor 20 years ESU students have been collecting teddy bears for local families during the holidays,\u201d said Eric Hunt, a sophomore majoring in marketing and vice president of SGA from East Stroudsburg, Pa. \u201cThis year we are also collecting toys in the hopes that every child that comes to our party will receive a teddy bear and a toy. We want to make it really special for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Members of SGA have been planning this event since the beginning of the semester and have already received donations from members, fellow students, faculty and staff. \u201cWe hope the community can help us in our mission and make a donation too,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Children invited to the event are between two and 10 years old. \u201cThe holidays are an exciting time for children in this age group. But, we know all too well how difficult it is for some families to come up with extra money to buy gifts. SGA is proud to have been able to help these families for 20 years,\u201d Hunt said.<\/p>\n<p>Donations are being accepted through Tuesday, November 26 in the SGA office located in room 219 of the University Center on ESU\u2019s campus. Donations can be dropped off Monday \u2013 Friday 9 a.m. \u2013 4 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESU\u2019s Student Government Association (SGA) is holding its 20<sup>th<\/sup> Annual Teddy Bear Drive this holiday season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":19527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19522"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19529,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19522\/revisions\/19529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/backup_insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}