{"id":602809,"date":"2017-04-03T14:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T19:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=602809"},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:17:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T19:17:26","slug":"smith-county-donates-surplus-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=602809","title":{"rendered":"Smith County Donates Surplus Computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/Surplus-Smith-County-Equipment.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/Surplus-Smith-County-Equipment-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-602810\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; Because of a donation from Smith County, Mustard Seed Ministries has been able to give computers to local school children. Dr. Karen Jones, founder and president of Mustard Seed Ministries, along with three technicians, picked up surplus technology equipment Monday that had been collected by the Smith County Information Technology Department. Smith County Commissioners voted last week to donate the surplus computer equipment to the local ministry. Mustard Seed supplies schools in Tyler, Whitehouse and Mineola.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The surplus equipment donated by Smith County includes 37 desktops, 19 laptops, 79 monitors, 11 printers, one TV, two workstations, two scanners, four cognitive printers, one receipt printer, one projector, two DVD players and numerous cords, HDD, mice, keyboards and camera equipment. <\/p>\n<p>For years, Smith County has donated outdated and broken computer equipment, including monitors, desktops and printers, to Mustard Seed Ministries. The nonprofit organization dismantles and reassembles the equipment and donates them to school children who do not have computers. Dr. Jones said the nonprofit has given about 11,000 computers to local schools since 2001. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; Because of a donation from Smith County, Mustard Seed Ministries has been able to give computers to local school children. Dr. Karen Jones, founder and president of Mustard Seed Ministries, along with three technicians, picked up surplus technology equipment Monday that had been collected by the Smith County Information Technology Department. Smith County &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=602809\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smith County Donates Surplus Computers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":602810,"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-602809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-16 01:24:12","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\/602809","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=602809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602811,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602809\/revisions\/602811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/602810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}