{"id":221469,"date":"2019-05-18T09:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-18T13:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=221469&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=221469"},"modified":"2019-11-27T01:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T06:36:45","slug":"lake-county-libraries-to-forgive-library-fines-in-exchange-for-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/lake-county-libraries-to-forgive-library-fines-in-exchange-for-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake County Libraries to Forgive Library Fines in Exchange for Food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TAVARES &#8212; The Lake County Library System is launching their &#8220;Food for Fins&#8221; initiative May 19 and are accepting donations of dry or canned food items, baby products, and hygiene products and in exchange will be forgiving library fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The annual Spring event is held throughout 15 libraries in Lake County allowing residents to donate food and other necessities to help local food banks and charities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each unopened, unexpired item donated will equal $1 toward any overdue fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Residents without library fines are also welcome to donate and their donations will be used to &#8220;pay it forward&#8221; and will help forgive another library patron&#8217;s fines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be held at each of the 15 libraries in Lake County from May 19 through June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fines for lost, damaged, or those that have been sent to a collection agency cannot be forgiven.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Leesburg Public Library and the Minneola Schoolhouse Library will also accept pet food donations during the program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information about the event and to find a list of each library, call or visit your local library or visit online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mylakelibrary.org\">www.mylakelibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake County Library System launches Food For Fines initiative and will forgive library overdue fines in exchange for food donations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3246,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/FoodForFines.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}