{"id":10251,"date":"2024-05-16T13:17:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=10251"},"modified":"2024-05-16T13:17:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:17:40","slug":"mphs-fbla-students-collect-and-distribute-childrens-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-fbla-students-collect-and-distribute-childrens-books\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS FBLA Students Collect and Distribute Children\u2019s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>As a community service project, members of the Mount Pleasant High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) collected children\u2019s books to be distributed throughout the community of Mount Pleasant. Donation boxes were set up at Annie Sims, E.C. Brice, Frances Corprew, and Vivian Fowler Elementary Schools, Mount Pleasant High School, and the Mount Pleasant ISD Administration Building. On April 8, FBLA Advisor, John Whitten, and Area 6 State Vice President and MPHS FBLA Co-President, Sophie Greco, picked up over 600 books that had been collected. Chapter members then sorted the books into age levels and divided them into English and Spanish books. On Wednesday, May 1, the books were then distributed to Little Rascal\u2019s Day Care, Ignite Youth Club, East Texas Children\u2019s Dentistry, the Pediatric Clinic, and Trinity Baptist Church.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photos:<\/h3>\n<h3>1: East Texas Children\u2019s Dentistry plans to give a free book to each child after their visit.<\/h3>\n<h3>2: Trinity Baptist Church will use the books in their children\u2019s and preschool ministry and will have some available in the church library.<\/h3>\n<h3>3: The Pediatric Clinic at Titus Regional Medical Center will give books away to their patients.<\/h3>\n<h3>4: Area 6 State Vice President and MPHS FBLA Co-President, Sophie Greco (far left) and FBLA Advisor, John Whitten, pick up books collected at Corprew Elementary<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a community service project, members of the Mount Pleasant High School chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) collected children\u2019s books to be distributed throughout the community of Mount Pleasant. Donation boxes were set up at Annie Sims, E.C. Brice, Frances Corprew, and Vivian Fowler Elementary Schools, Mount Pleasant High School, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}