{"id":8936,"date":"2012-06-20T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2012-06-20T15:28:51","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T19:28:51","slug":"vips-honors-crusade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/2012\/06\/20\/vips-honors-crusade-2\/","title":{"rendered":"VIPS honors Crusade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150959672089171.439228.44045754170&#038;type=3#!\/media\/set\/?set=a.10150959672089171.439228.44045754170&#038;type=1&#038;bef=10150959696354171\">Click here<\/a> to view photos on Facebook from Crusade weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/4-ways-to-give\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4waystogive1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4waystogive\" width=\"550\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4697\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hGEm_R4nyLs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The WHAS Crusade for Children was honored with a Beacon Award for its continuing effort to help visually-impaired children. <\/p>\n<p>Crusade CEO Dawn Lee accepted the Ambassador Trophy from Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS).  The award celebrates the Crusade\u2019s founding role in the creation of VIPS back in 1985. A role that continues today.<\/p>\n<p>Diane Nelson, Director of VIPS said, \u201cThe Ambassador Award isn\u2019t given every year, only to special organizations or individuals whose support has enabled us to do what we do today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since 1985 the Crusade has granted more than $1 million to VIPS to assist pre-school children get a proper start on their education.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2>Lyndon Fire presents hydrant to VIPS<\/h2>\n<p>Wednesday, June 20 youngsters at Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS) received a special present for their kids town learning center.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from the Lyndon Fire Department gave the children a non-working hydrant which they had refurbished with new paint and made \u201ckid friendly\u201d complete with a lightweight replica of a hydrant wrench.  The goal is to give the visually impaired children a tactile way to understand what a hydrant is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to view photos on Facebook from Crusade weekend. The WHAS Crusade for Children was honored with a Beacon Award for its continuing effort to help visually-impaired children. Crusade CEO Dawn Lee accepted the Ambassador Trophy from Visually Impaired Preschool Services (VIPS). The award&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,8,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whascrusade.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}