{"id":8129,"date":"2018-03-09T18:26:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2018-03-09T18:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T18:26:08","slug":"friends-of-the-library-program-gets-donation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8129","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Library Program Gets Donation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8121\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0194.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8121\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8121\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0194.jpg\" alt=\"From left to right are: Leslie Gonzalez, CDA president; librarian Angie Lugo; and Andrea Gonzales, advisor with CDA. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN\" width=\"600\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0194.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0194-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/IMG_0194-405x245.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left to right are: Leslie Gonzalez, CDA president; librarian Angie Lugo; and Andrea Gonzales, advisor with CDA. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A small but nevertheless important donation was given to the Friends of the Library Program by the local chapter Catholic Daughters of the Americas Father Thomas Billimek Court 2425.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The non-profit organization gave a check for $200 to help the Ethel L. Whipple Memorial Library to carry its spring break activities set for March 12-18.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Andrea Gonzales, the CDA advisor, said one of the goals of their organization is to help the community.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cI made a suggestion to help out the library,\u201d she said, referring to a meeting they held recently. \u201cIt may not be that much but this will help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">She said CDA was founded here in 1996 with a few members and they now have 23.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The money they make comes from one fundraising event they have every year.<br \/>\nCDA has donated money to such organizations like Juan Diego Colonia in Cameron County, Habitat for Humanity, to area churches and it also has its own scholarship program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN A small but nevertheless important donation was given to the Friends of the Library Program by the local chapter Catholic Daughters of the Americas Father Thomas Billimek Court 2425. The non-profit organization gave a check for $200 to help the Ethel L. Whipple Memorial Library to carry its spring break activities set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8130,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}