{"id":8359,"date":"2013-10-18T19:08:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=8359"},"modified":"2013-10-18T19:08:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T23:08:31","slug":"state-senator-to-switch-into-handyman-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=8359","title":{"rendered":"State senator to switch into handyman mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Dinniman, staff will assist Good Works, Inc. to improve city home<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8361\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image-27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8361\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8361 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"A Good Works Inc. crew works on one of its many home-improvment projects for low-income residents in Chester County.\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image-27-300x266.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image-27-300x266.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Image-27.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8361\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Good Works Inc. crew works on one of its many home-improvment projects for low-income residents in Chester County.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Sen. Andy Dinniman and his staff will assist Good Works Inc., a nonprofit committed to improving the living conditions of the county\u2019s low-income families, on Saturday in Coatesville.<\/p>\n<p>From 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dinniman, along with other volunteers, will work to improve a house in the 400 block of Maple Avenue in Coatesville.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor 25 years, the volunteers of Good Works have been working to improve the living conditions of local families in need. I have been a supporter of this organization from the beginning, and it will be my honor to pitch in on Saturday,\u201d Dinniman said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Dinniman emphasized that volunteerism and community service will continue to play an important role in Coatesville as the community comes together to combat racism and discrimination. \u201cWe will not let a few individuals cast a shadow of hate on Coatesville,\u201d Dinniman said. \u201cWe refuse to let the reputation of this city be tarnished by bigotry when there is so much good being done by volunteers and organizations like Good Works.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The senator suggested that government programs have to be supplemented. \u201cCuts to important social programs mean that it is up to the community, including people of faith, to step forward to answer the call of those in need,\u201d he said. \u201cThat is exactly what is happening here in Coatesville.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinniman, staff will assist Good Works, Inc. to improve city home State Sen. Andy Dinniman and his staff will assist Good Works Inc., a nonprofit committed to improving the living conditions of the county\u2019s low-income families, on Saturday in Coatesville. From 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Dinniman, along with other volunteers, will work to improve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8361,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,463,464,766],"class_list":["post-8359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-coatesville","tag-good-works","tag-inc","tag-state-sen-andy-dinniman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359","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=8359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}