{"id":4374,"date":"2014-04-18T19:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T02:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2014-04-18T19:29:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T02:29:37","slug":"an-eastertime-triumph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"An Eastertime Triumph"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"church<\/a>by Noella Noelophile\u2122<\/em><\/p>\n

By noon, more than 900 Easter baskets had gone out the door.<\/p>\n

And baskets, supplies and volunteers kept right on coming.<\/p>\n

According to their Facebook page<\/a>, Justin Rudd’s Operation Easter Basket celebrated its ten-year anniversary today.\u00a0\u00a0 The scene at Long Beach’s Bay Shore Church, in Belmont Shore, amounted to a lively and loving celebration.\"baskets2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Tables were set up with candy, T-shirts, personal-hygiene items, toys and school\/art supplies.\u00a0 Volunteers took baskets or plastic sand pails with shovels, started with Easter grass or ribbon and filled the baskets from there.\u00a0 The goal was 1,600 baskets for underprivileged youth in the area, ages birth to sixteen years.<\/p>\n

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Overseeing it all was Long Beach “Chief Inspiration Officer” Justin Rudd<\/a>, monitoring the baskets and the process of getting them to the various community groups to which they’d been promised.<\/p>\n

“Volunteers,” he announced at one point, “I need y’all to stop what you’re doing and help load these baskets in that flatbed truck outside.”\"cart1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

A line of approximately fifteen people streamed outdoors, ant-style, carrying eighty completed\u00a0 and cellophane-wrapped baskets to a truck that had arrived from Carmelitos Housing Project..\u00a0 There were lots of smiles–and a minor crisis averted.\u00a0 Five of the baskets earmarked for another group had been accidentally loaded into the flatbed! The Carmelitos representatives scanned the flatbed, finding baskets with specific names on them and returning them before the truck drove off.<\/p>\n

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There was a definite ebb and flow of incoming supplies.\u00a0\u00a0 Art and school supplies, and small toys, went quickly to help fill the baskets.\u00a0 Just after noon, the room erupted in applause at the announcement that Operation Easter Basket had reached its goal of 1,600 baskets.<\/p>\n

But according to Operation Easter Basket’s Facebook page<\/a>, people weren’t finished giving yet.\u00a0 The board below shows the community organizations which donated on the left, and the ones to whom Easter baskets had been promised on the right.<\/p>\n

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At 4:00 this afternoon, Operation Easter Basket had celebrated its tenth anniversary by gathering 2,200 baskets to donate–500 more than its “dream” goal.<\/p>\n

Congratulations and Happy Anniversary, Operation Easter Basket–and a very Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Noella Noelophile\u2122 By noon, more than 900 Easter baskets had gone out the door. And baskets, supplies and volunteers kept right on coming. According to their Facebook page, Justin Rudd’s Operation Easter Basket celebrated its ten-year anniversary today.\u00a0\u00a0 The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262],"tags":[777,301,294,784,778,786,293],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-the-year","tag-operation-easter-basket","tag-community-action-team","tag-community-activist-justin-rudd","tag-easter","tag-easter-baskets","tag-easter-giving","tag-justin-rudd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4404,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelophile.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}