{"id":5145,"date":"1997-03-05T11:05:52","date_gmt":"1997-03-05T11:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/?p=5145"},"modified":"2013-03-05T23:48:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T23:48:58","slug":"community-service-still-a-priority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/community-service-still-a-priority\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Service Still A Priority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Matt Garrison &#8217;99<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The brothers of the Theta chapter have been busy with academics, rush and intramurals this year, but have still found time to participate in a variety of community service activities. On \u00a0a Sunday \u00a0afternoon in early October, Brad Chelton &#8217;98 and Ken Bagstad &#8217;99 walked the streets of Delaware \u00a0to raise money in the Church World Service&#8217;s annual Crop Walk. The Crop Walk is a nationwide event held \u00a0to help \u00a0fight hunger in the United States and abroad. \u00a0Brad and Ken gathered pledges from family and friends before the 19 kilometer walk, most of the proceeds of which stay right here in Delaware Country.<\/p>\n<p>On Valentine&#8217;s Day, the first Annual Ohio Wesleyan University \u00a0Dance Marathon was held \u00a0to benefit Children&#8217;s \u00a0Hospital of Columbus. Two brothers were actively involved in this project, which raised over $4,000 for the hospital. Matt Garrison \u00a0&#8217;99 served as the Chariman of the public relations committee, while Brad Chelton &#8217;98 pitched in as a member \u00a0of \u00a0the awards committee. Preparations for the marathon began in October, and work continued \u00a0until the project&#8217;s culmination in February.<\/p>\n<p>Our spring pledges spearheaded another project this past March, volunteering with People in Need (PIN) of Delaware. This organization works \u00a0to meet \u00a0emergency \u00a0needs for residents of Delaware: and the outlying areas. Their services include food, assistance with utilities, housing, and \u00a0emergency medical assitance. The tasks performed \u00a0included stacking cans of food, organizing \u00a0donated materials, and painting the PIN \u00a0headquarters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Matt Garrison &#8217;99 The brothers of the Theta chapter have been busy with academics, rush and intramurals this year, but have still found time to participate in a variety of community service activities. On \u00a0a Sunday \u00a0afternoon in early October, Brad Chelton &#8217;98 and Ken Bagstad &#8217;99 walked the streets of Delaware \u00a0to raise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-theta-data","tag-june-1997-theta-data","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5153,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions\/5153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetachapterbtp.org\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}