{"id":1268,"date":"2024-05-29T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-05-29T17:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/?p=1268"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:56:38","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T14:56:38","slug":"ben-jerrys-workers-volunteer-across-vermont-for-community-service-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/ben-jerrys-workers-volunteer-across-vermont-for-community-service-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben &#038; Jerry\u2019s workers volunteer across Vermont for community service day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3><strong><em>Soar Learning Center one of the locations chosen<\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"936\" height=\"525\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BJ-news-post-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BJ-news-post-1.png 936w, https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BJ-news-post-1-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/BJ-news-post-1-768x431.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 936px) 100vw, 936px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s workers took part in a community service day on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Employees were in various locations in central and northern parts of Vermont.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the nine locations, the Soar Learning Center in St. Albans, had around 30 volunteers. Tasks included cleaning and washing cars, cleaning the kitchen space inside the learning center and pressure washing outside of the property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Overall, there were about 300 volunteers at various locations throughout the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We need a reason to keep going on every day, encouraging people, you know, just even the little things like cleaning their vans, cleaning the kitchen, doing things that they don\u2019t have time to do because they\u2019re taking care of the kids,\u201d said Craig Holcomb, the community action team lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volunteers also gave out free ice cream.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Link to view entire segment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2024\/05\/28\/ben-jerrys-workers-volunteer-across-vermont-community-service-day\/\">https:\/\/www.wcax.com\/2024\/05\/28\/ben-jerrys-workers-volunteer-across-vermont-community-service-day\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soar Learning Center one of the locations chosen ST. ALBANS, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s workers took part in a community service day on Tuesday. Employees were in various locations in central and northern parts of Vermont. One of the nine locations, the Soar Learning Center in St. Albans, had around 30 volunteers. Tasks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1270,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268\/revisions\/1270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ncssinc.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}