{"id":61558,"date":"2015-05-03T11:00:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61558"},"modified":"2015-05-03T11:05:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T15:05:34","slug":"holy-cross-academy-students-collect-donations-to-help-families-keep-their-pets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=61558","title":{"rendered":"Holy Cross Academy Students Collect Donations to Help Families Keep Their Pets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Pictured are Kacie Hyle, Kat Wojsiat, and Cristi Romero delivering the donations they collected at Holy Cross Academy to Wanderers\u2019 Rest Humane Association.<\/em><\/p>\n

(Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) \u00a0When Humane Educator Dee Schaefer spoke at Holy Cross Academy about the work of Wanderers\u2019 Rest Humane Association, three students came up with an idea.<\/p>\n

Schaefer told the students about the animal shelter\u2019s food pantry, one of its most important programs. She said many families bring their pets to the shelter because they can no longer afford to feed their animals. But thanks to generous donors, people in that situation can receive free pet food at Wanderers\u2019 Rest. In this way families don\u2019t have to give up their pets, and both the people and animals win.<\/p>\n

When HCA seventh-grader Kacie Hyle heard this, she immediately got an idea. She said to her friends Kat Wojsiat (7th<\/sup> grade) and Cristi Romero (10th<\/sup> grade), \u201cLet\u2019s have a paid dress-down day to collect donations for the Wanderers\u2019 Rest food pantry!\u201d<\/p>\n

Because of HCA\u2019s strict dress code, a dress-down day is a big treat. So, students sometimes use \u201cpaid\u201d dress-down days to raise funds for good causes. Students who bring a donation can wear casual clothes to school that day. The students brought the idea to Principal Teri Maciag, and the date was set. On Friday, April 24, the students collected almost $200 in cash and food donations.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s heartbreaking when people can\u2019t feed their pets,\u201d said Alyssa Stanwick, Animal Care Manager at Wanderers\u2019 Rest. \u201cSo we really appreciate it when people contribute to the food pantry. It definitely helps.\u201d<\/p>\n

Holy Cross Academy is an independent Catholic junior\/senior high school located in Oneida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pictured are Kacie Hyle, Kat Wojsiat, and Cristi Romero delivering the donations they collected at Holy Cross Academy to Wanderers\u2019 Rest Humane Association. (Oneida, NY \u2013 May 2015) \u00a0When Humane Educator Dee Schaefer spoke at Holy Cross Academy about the work of Wanderers\u2019 Rest Humane Association, three students came up with an idea. Schaefer told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22359,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pets","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-g0S","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Wanderers2.jpg?fit=247%2C400&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61558","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=61558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}