{"id":4730,"date":"2013-03-26T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4730"},"modified":"2013-03-26T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T15:05:12","slug":"donations-warm-hearts-as-well-as-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=4730","title":{"rendered":"Donations warm hearts as well as facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><strong>Outpouring of support enables nonprofit to purchase new boiler<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">By Kathleen Brady Shea<\/span><\/strong>, <em><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\">Managing Editor, The Times<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4731\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4731\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4731 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"A student mural program is one of many activities that will resume when the Bridge Academy doors reopen with a new heating system.\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4-144x144.jpg 144w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Image4.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A student mural program is one of many activities that will resume when the Bridge Academy doors reopen with a new heating system.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some of the donations toward the $20,000 heating system were as small as $10, but they were all appreciated, said the staff and board of the Bridge Academy and Community Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Coatesville nonprofit, which operates a variety of programs that weekly serve about 200 people, mainly children, had to shut the doors at its Olive Street facility recently when its 75-year-old boiler quit and the temperature dipped to 45 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>The bailout took less than two weeks, and a new unit has been purchased. Once it arrives, the staff estimates that installation will take about three days, and they are guardedly optimistic that programs can resume by the middle of next week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so incredibly grateful for everyone who gave, supported, and prayed,\u201d said an email from the operators. \u201c\u2026without your willingness to give from your hearts, we would not have raised this money. All of your encouraging notes and words kept us going and blessed us incredibly throughout the entire time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outpouring of support enables nonprofit to purchase new boiler By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Some of the donations toward the $20,000 heating system were as small as $10, but they were all appreciated, said the staff and board of the Bridge Academy and Community Center. The Coatesville nonprofit, which operates a variety [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,1],"tags":[682,24],"class_list":["post-4730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","category-uncategorized","tag-bridge-academy-and-community-center","tag-coatesville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}