{"id":5470,"date":"2013-11-21T17:06:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=5470"},"modified":"2013-11-21T17:06:31","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T23:06:31","slug":"off-season-fair-news-giving-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2013\/11\/21\/off-season-fair-news-giving-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-season Fair news: Giving Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5471\" title=\"IMG_1544\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1544-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>We were all saddened when we learned of the devastation the people of the Philippines have suffered from Typhoon Haiyan. Our Junior Fair Board (JFB) decided to help out.<br \/>\nJFB members collected more than <strong>4,000 <\/strong>items from donators from the local area and organized all the items to be picked up by Operation USA.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFairplex employees also donated and some even took time out of their day to help collect and sort out donated goods! In total, the Junior Fair Board was able to collect:<br \/>\n845 toothbrushes<br \/>\n78 packages\/boxes of gauze<br \/>\n119 rolls of bandages<br \/>\n149 boxes of band-aids<br \/>\n146 tubes of antibiotic cream<br \/>\n59 containers disinfecting wipes<br \/>\n498 bars of soap<br \/>\n288 baby bottles<br \/>\n118 bottles of body wash<br \/>\n291 tubes of toothpaste<br \/>\n423 batteries<br \/>\n281 flashlights<br \/>\n211 containers of baby wipes<br \/>\n7 packages of diapers<br \/>\n204 bottles of shampoo<br \/>\n460 other miscellaneous items<br \/>\nThe L.A. County Fair would like to thank the the Junior Fair Board and community members who willingly made the extra effort to give assistance to the people of the Philippines.<br \/>\nThe Junior Fair Board is comprised of high school juniors and seniors who are focused on enhancing their leadership and life skills and who have a heart for community involvement. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tlcfairplex.org\">www.tlcfairplex.org <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were all saddened when we learned of the devastation the people of the Philippines have suffered from Typhoon Haiyan. Our Junior Fair Board (JFB) decided to help out. JFB members collected more than 4,000 items from donators from the local area and organized all the items to be picked up by Operation USA. &nbsp;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[516,578,653,1135],"class_list":["post-5470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-fairnews","tag-help-for-typhoon-haiyan","tag-junior-fair-board-fairplex","tag-la-county-fair-gives-back","tag-the-learning-centers-at-fairplex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}