{"id":5072,"date":"2019-05-28T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T21:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/?p=5072"},"modified":"2019-08-30T18:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:02:07","slug":"hydrate-a-hero-the-seniors-latest-community-service-project-is-only-one-of-the-ways-they-give-back-to-the-community-each-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/2019\/05\/28\/hydrate-a-hero-the-seniors-latest-community-service-project-is-only-one-of-the-ways-they-give-back-to-the-community-each-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrate-a-Hero, the seniors&#8217; latest community service project, is only one of the ways they give back to the community each year."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0);background-position: center center;background-repeat: no-repeat;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;margin-bottom: 0px;margin-top: 0px;border-width: 0px 0px 0px 0px;border-color:#eae9e9;border-style:solid;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\" style=\"background-position:left top;background-repeat:no-repeat;-webkit-background-size:cover;-moz-background-size:cover;-o-background-size:cover;background-size:cover;padding: 0px 0px 0px 0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-alert alert error alert-danger fusion-alert-center fusion-alert-capitalize alert-dismissable\" style=\"background-color:#f2dede;color:rgba(166,66,66,1);border-color:rgba(166,66,66,1);border-width:1px;\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"close toggle-alert\" data-dismiss=\"alert\" aria-label=\"Close\">&times;<\/button><div class=\"fusion-alert-content-wrapper\"><span class=\"alert-icon\"><i class=\"fa-lg fa fa-exclamation-triangle\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fusion-alert-content\">Incorrect slider name. Please make sure to use a valid slider slug.<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-separator fusion-full-width-sep\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;margin-top:40px;width:100%;\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-sep-clear\"><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p>While residents at the CountrySide Lakes Shepherd senior living community love to shop, play games, golf and partake in \u201chappy\u201d hour, their hearts lie with\u00a0community service, with projects and fundraisers taking place year round.<\/p>\n<p>Residents at the CountrySide Lakes Shepherd senior living community love to shop, play games, golf and partake in \u201chappy\u201d hour, but the most important activities in which they engage are the ones where they support the people in their Community.<\/p>\n<p>Hydrate-a-Hero is their current community project. Residents and businesses can drop off cases of water during May that will be given to Port Orange&#8217;s\u00a0first responders to help them stay hydrated in severe hot weather.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, residents collected over 800 cases of water. This year, their goal is 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Center is sponsoring their second-annual\u00a0Family Fun Day\u00a0from 1-4 p.m on Saturday, June 1, where entry to the event is\u00a0one case of water per adult. The event will feature face painting, a petting zoo, games, balloon art, music by a DJ\u00a0and a free hot dog lunch.<\/p>\n<p>Life Engagement Director Stephanie Lynch said that seniors raised over $500 for the Southeast Volusia County Humane Society, and that is just the beginning of the community work they have done. The seniors have dedicated the year to a group call Cuda\u2019s Unhooked. It is a nonprofit charity dedicated to helping at-risk and homeless teen students in New Smyrna Beach.<\/p>\n<p>Cuda\u2019s Unhooked provides guidance on personal development, mentoring, housing\u00a0and helps students graduate from high school.\u00a0 Each month, a different fundraiser is conducted to donate funds to help the students.<\/p>\n<p>For January, a Chili Cookoff\u00a0raised $300. March produced $396 to send the students and their mentors to a\u00a0baseball game at Jackie Robinson Stadium in Daytona Beach. In April, $400 was sent to the group to send students to dinner and prom. The senior center turned their community bus into a prom party bus and Lynch took students to dinner, prom and back home.<\/p>\n<p>During the summer, the seniors are having a garage sale to collect money for school and personal supplies for students to begin the\u00a0new school year.<\/p>\n<p>February had a different focus. Seniors collected 613 teddy bears and donated them to the Port Orange Police Department, Daytona Beach Police Department, and the Volusia County Sheriff\u2019s Department to help children in crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Seniors at the center also have input into what activities are presented. Resident Bob Solomon is a golf enthusiast who wants to give golf lessons and start a putting tournament with residents in other senior living facilities. The Center turned an unused shuffle board court into a putting green. Solomon actively\u00a0supervised the installation of the new green.<\/p>\n<p>by: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portorangeobserver.com\/articles\/author\/tanya-russo\">Tanya Russo<\/a><br \/>\nStaff Writer at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portorangeobserver.com\/photo-gallery\/port-orange-seniors-support-hydrate-a-hero-at-countryside-lakes-senior-living-community#photo-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Port Orange Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While residents at the CountrySide Lakes Shepherd senior living community love to shop, play games, golf and partake in \u201chappy\u201d hour, their hearts lie with\u00a0community service, with projects and fundraisers taking place year round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,29],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5072"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5087,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5072\/revisions\/5087"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesouthcreative.com\/staging\/campus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}