{"id":283,"date":"2025-11-19T21:26:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/?p=283"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:32:41","slug":"haven-house-beyond-the-drive-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/19\/haven-house-beyond-the-drive-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Haven House Beyond the Drive Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Our City Council Representative, Christina Jones, is spearheading a new program called the <strong>Beyond the Drive Initiative<\/strong>, which links neighborhoods throughout the city to charitable organizations that are in the area in which they reside.\u00a0 Our assigned charity is Haven House Services, which is on Bullard Drive and can be accessed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.havenhousenc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.havenhousenc.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">We are all aware of the struggles families are facing in maintaining their households in the face of rising prices and a strained economy.\u00a0 This is one way we can all give back and help those in need of food and other household items.\u00a0 The idea is to try to help restock these items in time for the holiday season.\u00a0 The hope is that this will be the beginning of an ongoing effort to help our neighbors in need in the future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Christina has asked MWNA board member, Randy Benefield to be the point person for this effort.\u00a0 Attached is a list of items they have identified as their most needed.\u00a0 Please bring any donations you can make to Randy&#8217;s home at 3409 Harden Rd between now and Thanksgiving.\u00a0 If nobody is home, please leave the items in the box by the garage doors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gmail-MsoNoSpacing\">Randy will be available to come to your house to collect any items you have on Monday, November 24 in the afternoon. <a href=\"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/contact-us\/\">Contact us<\/a> to arrange a pickup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Donation-Drive-Most-Needed-Items.pdf\">Donation Drive &#8211; Most Needed Items<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our City Council Representative, Christina Jones, is spearheading a new program called the Beyond the Drive Initiative, which links neighborhoods throughout the city to charitable organizations that are in the area in which they reside.\u00a0 Our assigned charity is Haven House Services, which is on Bullard Drive and can be accessed at\u00a0www.havenhousenc.org. We are all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Haven-House.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":289,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/289"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredithwoodsneighbors.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}