{"id":434051,"date":"2015-12-30T16:43:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T22:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=434051"},"modified":"2016-01-01T07:56:54","modified_gmt":"2016-01-01T13:56:54","slug":"brookshires-food-drive-a-huge-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=434051","title":{"rendered":"Brookshire&#8217;s Food Drive a Huge Success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Brookshires.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-406796\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/10\/Brookshires-150x67.jpg\" alt=\"Brookshires\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-406796\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Brookshire Grocery Company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Spirit of Christmas Food Drive has once again proved to be a big success. Because of the 34th annual food drive, more than 16,000 families throughout Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas received a week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth of food this holiday season. For just over 4 weeks, ending December 22nd, participating BGC stores collected donations of non-perishable food items and also sold pre-assembled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153grab bags\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and scan coupons for cash contributions. All donations stayed within each store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s community.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s news release, this year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grab bag sales increased by 20% while the scan coupon sales, which are used to purchase additional food items, increased by 70%. The food is donated to local service organizations and food pantries for distribution to families in need. Along with a box of food, each family also received a coupon for a free roasting hen, courtesy of Brookshire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and Super 1 Foods.<\/p>\n<p>The Spirit of Christmas Food Drive began in Tyler in 1982 with the Rose City Kiwanis Club, providing assistance to approximately 90 families in the Tyler area.  \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Brookshire Grocery Company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s annual Spirit of Christmas Food Drive has once again proved to be a big success. Because of the 34th annual food drive, more than 16,000 families throughout Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas received a week\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worth of food this holiday season. For just over 4 weeks, ending December 22nd, participating BGC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=434051\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Brookshire&#8217;s Food Drive a Huge Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":406796,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 22:59:30","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434052,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434051\/revisions\/434052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/406796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}