{"id":305,"date":"2013-01-10T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/?p=305"},"modified":"2024-04-01T20:07:53","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:07:53","slug":"renewing-community-spirit-at-soarring-holiday-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"Renewing Community &#8211; SOARRING Holiday Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over one hundred members of Midwest SOARRING Foundation welcomed the holidays by attending the Volunteer Appreciation Dinner and Annual Member&#8217;s Holiday party on Saturday, December 8, 2012. As in previous years, the festivities were held at the Pilcher Park Nature Center, a large log cabin structure situated deep in the woods, and perfect for the occasion.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_311\" style=\"width: 140px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/?attachment_id=311\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"size-full wp-image-311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BillHolidayParty_2221.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit Christmas Tree\" width=\"130\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MSF Member placing ornament on Spirit Christmas Tree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Everyone enjoyed a delicious potluck feast with holiday treats to savor. A candlelit walk through the woods ended with a prayer circle held under the starry winter sky. Members brought warm winter items to share with families in need on the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in northern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>The highlight of the evening was the heartfelt sharing that occurred as each member placed a special hand made ornament on the Spirit Christmas tree. Each in turn, related a personal story or experience thus renewing community spirit at the gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Standing Bear Schranz thanked everyone for their dedicated hard work this past year and years past, and shared project highlights for 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over one hundred members of Midwest SOARRING Foundation welcomed the holidays by attending the Volunteer Appreciation Dinner and Annual Member&#8217;s Holiday party on Saturday, December 8, 2012. As in previous years, the festivities were held at the Pilcher Park Nature Center, a large log cabin structure situated deep in the woods, and perfect for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.midwestsoarring.org\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}