{"id":53432,"date":"2014-02-05T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53432"},"modified":"2014-02-04T16:21:53","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T21:21:53","slug":"madison-county-retired-teachers-provide-flood-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53432","title":{"rendered":"Madison County Retired Teachers Provide Flood Relief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Flood-relief-2014-for-web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53433\" alt=\"Flood relief 2014 for web\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Flood-relief-2014-for-web.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Flood-relief-2014-for-web.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Flood-relief-2014-for-web-150x122.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) Retired teachers from the Madison County Retired Teachers&#8217; Association presented winter clothing to the Willard Prior Elementary School. <!--more-->Madison,\u00a0Oneida,\u00a0and Herkimer counties each received checks\u00a0for flood relief victims, which were\u00a0collected\u00a0from the 10 zones of the New York State Retired\u00a0Teachers&#8217;\u00a0Association.<\/p>\n<p>Janice Hedglon, co-coordinator of Community Services for\u00a0both the county teachers and the Central Zone of NYSRTA met with the\u00a0assistant\u00a0superintendent of Oneida School district.\u00a0They decided\u00a0the best\u00a0use of the money would be for elementary students at Williard Prior Elementary\u00a0in Oneida. Nurse Melissa Ball suggested items that were most\u00a0needed and would oversee the distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Sweat pants, hooded sweat shirts, snow\u00a0pants, thermal underwear, socks, hats, and gloves were purchased at the Oneida Wal-mart by Hedglon and MCRTA president Gwynne Bodle.\u00a0Wal-Mart manager,\u00a0Jim Breed,\u00a0donated\u00a0a\u00a0$50 gift certificate to be used as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured from left are Janice Hedglon, Melissa Ball and Gwynne Bodle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Oneida, NY \u2013 Feb. 2014) Retired teachers from the Madison County Retired Teachers&#8217; Association presented winter clothing to the Willard Prior Elementary School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}