{"id":66152,"date":"2021-10-27T11:55:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T15:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=66152"},"modified":"2021-10-28T16:20:34","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T20:20:34","slug":"winter-clothing-drive-this-week-in-edmonton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/winter-clothing-drive-this-week-in-edmonton\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter clothing drive this week in Edmonton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">With the weather getting colder, <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">the Bissell Centre and Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society are hosting a Winter Clothing Drive in Edmonton. It\u2019s scheduled for Oct. 27- 28 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xxparagraph\">Christie Pace is the program manager with the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society\u2019s Practise as Ceremony cultural support service. The non-profit <span lang=\"EN-US\">Bissell Centre had contracted Bent Arrow to provide\u00a0cultural teachings and medicines to Bissell Centre community members throughout the pandemic.\u00a0This winter clothing drive is being held, in part, to\u00a0honor\u00a0the partnership created between the two organizations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"xxparagraph\">\u201cWe just want to come together and celebrate our partnership and the great work that we\u2019ve done together,\" she said. \"The drive is to, you know, it\u2019s in regards to an urgent need to help the vulnerable people to keep warm during our harsh winters, Edmonton winters. We have worked with the Bissell Centre since over the summer. We\u2019re coming to the tail end and we just wanted to, you know, do something together and provide some comfort to our vulnerable community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxparagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">This drive will help support Bissell Centre participants. The centre is committed to raising people out of poverty. Bent Arrow is committed to building culturally strong Indigenous children, youth and families.\u00a0<\/span>Pace says any donation of warm clothing will help this winter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xxparagraph\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">Any items can be dropped off at the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society at 11648-85 Street or at the Bissell Centre at 10530-96 Street.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the weather getting colder, the Bissell Centre and Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society are hosting a Winter Clothing Drive in Edmonton. It\u2019s scheduled for Oct. 27- 28 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Christie Pace is the program manager with the Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society\u2019s Practise as Ceremony cultural support service. The non-profit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":66156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[8638,10240,8603],"radio":[9847],"origine":[268,267,228],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66152"}],"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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66152"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=66152"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=66152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}