{"id":14200,"date":"2016-07-14T12:28:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:28:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=14200"},"modified":"2016-07-14T12:28:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T16:28:54","slug":"8-year-old-honored-by-coatesville-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=14200","title":{"rendered":"8-year-old honored by Coatesville City Council"},"content":{"rendered":"

Keira Ollis working to make Coatesville more beautiful<\/em><\/h2>\n

By Lauren Parker- Gill,<\/strong>\u00a0News Editor<\/em>, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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8-year-old Keira Ollis recently volunteered her time by painting over a graffiti tag at the corner of Newlinville Road and South First Avenue in Coatesville.<\/p><\/div>\n

COATESVILLE \u2013 As most children are spending their summers at the pool or playing at the park, 8-year-old Keira Ollis is looking for her next volunteer project to help beautify Coatesville.<\/p>\n

Ollis has been seen lending a helping hand throughout the year at many events around the city. On Make A Difference Day, Ollis helped plant fall mums and painted benches, tables and sidewalk games at Ash Park.<\/p>\n

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Ollis loves to plant flowers and spray the weeds in the gardens throughout the city.<\/p><\/div>\n

As part of the Coatesville Area School District\u2019s Martin Luther King Day of Service in January, Ollis assisted volunteers with clean up at the Catherine Twomey house for Home of the Sparrow.<\/p>\n

Most recently, Ollis can be found planting flowers and weeding gardens and helping remove graffiti, in and around the city.<\/p>\n

Coatesville City Council members honored 8-year-old Keira Ollis for her volunteer efforts in the city at their meeting Monday night.<\/p>\n

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City Council president Linda Lavender- Norris presented Ollis with an award in recognition of her efforts to beautify the city.<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIn recognition of the time and effort you put into the beautification of our city flower beds and graffiti removal, the Coateville city council extends their appreciation to you for helping to make the city of Coatesville a better place to live, work and play,\u201d said Coatesville\u2019s City Council president, Linda Lavender- Norris.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like helping the city of Coatesville,\u201d Ollis said. \u201cIt gives people hope and it\u2019s the right thing to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keira Ollis working to make Coatesville more beautiful By Lauren Parker- Gill,\u00a0News Editor, The Times COATESVILLE \u2013 As most children are spending their summers at the pool or playing at the park, 8-year-old Keira Ollis is looking for her next volunteer project to help beautify Coatesville. Ollis has been seen lending a helping hand throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4215,126,667,3912,5337],"class_list":["post-14200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-award","tag-city-council","tag-city-of-coatesville","tag-featured","tag-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14200"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14215,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14200\/revisions\/14215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}