{"id":26200,"date":"2020-12-09T13:29:19","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T18:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=26200"},"modified":"2020-12-09T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T19:35:57","slug":"agilec-and-the-grand-at-101-team-up-to-warm-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/agilec-and-the-grand-at-101-team-up-to-warm-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Agilec and the Grand 101 team up to warm feet and hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Editor's note: This story involves<\/span> the CICW-FM community radio station where the story's reporter works.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

For the third year in a row, Agilec Fergus and The Grand 101.1 are teaming up again to host a sock drive fundraiser.<\/p>\n

According to Canada Helps, charities cannot accept used socks for sanitary purposes, and new socks are the least donated items of clothing, yet one of the most needed items.<\/p>\n

Angeli Mehrotra, team leader at Agilec, said the organization got involved again this year because they care about giving back to the community.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think being a part of the fundraiser just helps us feel like we are more part of the community that we\u2019re working in, so we do have locations throughout Ontario, and we want to make sure we are also giving back locally too,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Mehrotra said the goal of the drive is to get as many sock donations as possible because it\u2019s really not something people think of donating.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know when they told me they were doing the sock drive \u2014 so, I\u2019m very new to this location \u2014 I honestly was like, \u2018oh, why aren\u2019t we doing hats, mittens and those sorts of things?\u2019 Because people forget about the socks,\u201d Mehorta said. \u201cAnd once I realized that, I realized, oh yeah, you know what? I\u2019ve never really thought about how cold people are when they don\u2019t have warm socks on their feet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mehrotra said they had lots of sock donations last year because people care about giving back to their community. But they also promote that when you donate a pair of socks, your name gets entered into a draw to win a gift.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis year though, so far, we\u2019ve had people who are refusing to put their names in for the gift because they just really want to give back to the community, and I think they know it\u2019s been a harder year because of COVID-19, so they are trying to do as much as they can,\u201d Mehrotra said.<\/p>\n

The sock drive wraps up at the end of December, and then all sock donations will be given to the Centre Wellington Food Bank, so they can distribute them to those in need in the community.<\/p>\n

New socks for women, men, and children can be dropped off at Agilec at 370 St. Andrew St. W. or The Grand at 101.1 at 540 Garafraxa St. E.<\/p>\n

Angeli Mehrotra, team leader at Agilec Fergus:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n

Editor’s note: This story involves the CICW-FM community radio station where the story’s reporter works.\u00a0 For the third year in a row, Agilec Fergus and The Grand 101.1 are teaming up again to host a sock drive fundraiser. According to Canada Helps, charities cannot accept used socks for sanitary purposes, and new socks are the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":26260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,218,223],"tags":[4016,370,4018,4019,4017],"radio":[1376],"origine":[267,1369,269],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200"}],"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\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=26200"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=26200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}