{"id":67671,"date":"2006-12-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uris-alumni-sort-stack-box\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T00:00:00","slug":"uris-alumni-sort-stack-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2006\/12\/uris-alumni-sort-stack-box\/","title":{"rendered":"URI\u2019s alumni sort, stack &amp; box"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/11-web.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"299\" align=\"right\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nLocal chapter earns food bank&#8217;s Golden Pallet Award<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; December 15, 2006 &#8212; The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Rhode Island Alumni Chapter can sort, stack, and box with the best of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nAbout 40 chapter members and some friends spent an evening last month at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank, taking different posts on the sorting, stacking, and boxing assembly lines. They\u2019ve become experts at the process since the chapter has been sorting food for the food bank for the past five years.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/sites\/16\/2021\/05\/65-web.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"170\" align=\"left\"\/><br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\tThis year, the URI group was presented with the \u201cGolden Pallet Award\u201d for sorting more food than any other college or university in the state. The award recognizes the group\u2019s work for 2005, since tabulations aren\u2019t completed until each higher education institution participates and gets the food weighed on the scales.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s the chapter\u2019s way of giving back to the community,\u201d said Kristal Cardone, assistant director of Alumni Relations who rolls up her sleeves for the annual event. \u201cThis year\u2019s event was coordinated by Mary-Lyn Siderski, URI chapter leader;  Kristen French, volunteer and community events manager for the food bank; and Cardone. I\u2019m guessing that URI will retain the Golden Pallet title next year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nFOOD TO GO (R): URI \u201959 alumnus Brad Southworth of Pawtucket wears his Rhody sweatshirt while sorting food at the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. URI photo by Nora Lewis.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nALL IN THE FAMILY(L): URI \u201979 alumna Betsy McCabe of Barrington and her daughter Kate McCabe \u201902 of East Greenwich help out the Rhode Island Community Food Bank. URI photo by Nora Lewis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; Local chapter earns food bank&#8217;s Golden Pallet Award &#13; KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; December 15, 2006 &#8212; The University of Rhode Island\u2019s Rhode Island Alumni Chapter can sort, stack, and box with the best of them. &#13; About 40 chapter members and some friends spent an evening last month at the Rhode Island Community Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}