{"id":18716,"date":"2020-11-04T09:58:35","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T14:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=18716"},"modified":"2020-11-04T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T14:58:35","slug":"learning-to-adapt-the-knights-of-columbus-re-think-distribution-of-food-baskets-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/learning-to-adapt-the-knights-of-columbus-re-think-distribution-of-food-baskets-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Adapt: The Knights of Columbus re-think distribution of food baskets during the pandemic."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Knights of Columbus is a charity organisation of Military Veterans who give back to the community. The Eastern Townships local Knights are located in Cowansville and assume responsibility for all communities who do not have their own branch of Knights. Usually at this time of year the Knights would be starting to collect donations for their food drive. \u201cWe do about 320 baskets for families in need\u201d stated Lawrence Cotton. However, this year is different because of the pandemic. \u201cWe can\u2019t deliver baskets and food door to door because we don\u2019t want the risk of infection for the Knights or the families\u201d explained Monsieur Cotton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Many families and people in the region rely on food baskets and donations in order to support themselves. So, thanks to the quick thinking of The Knights of Columbus the food baskets will be replaced by food coupons and vouchers. \u201cOur goal is to get $50,000 in coupons this year\u201d said Monsieur Cotton. The coupons will be valid for local grocery stores and other necessities. Monsieur Cotton mentioned, \u201cthis might even be better because now the families in the area are able to pick out what they want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Donations can be made online to The Knights of Columbus at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chevalier2821.ca\/\">www.chevalier2821.ca<\/a> . \u201cWe have no start or end date for donations to be made because we fundraise to support the community all year round. So, no matter when you donate, your money will be going to help a family\u201d assured Monsieur Cotton. Food donations are still be accepted and will be sanitized before being handed out, but \u201cplease do not leave donations on the door step of the organisation. Cans will freeze and explode\u201d notified Monsieur Cotton, \u201cplease donate directly to the foodbanks because the food needs to keep coming.\u201d \u201cEveryone just be generous please. Help us help them. We have to be there to help everyone out\u201d concluded Monsieur Cotton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Knights of Columbus is a charity organisation of Military Veterans who give back to the community. The Eastern Townships local Knights are located in Cowansville and assume responsibility for all communities who do not have their own branch of Knights. Usually at this time of year the Knights would be starting to collect donations&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":18714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218],"tags":[2782,758,2308,2783,2650,2781],"radio":[],"origine":[274,259,260],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=18716"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=18716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}