{"id":49113,"date":"2018-12-05T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/?p=49113"},"modified":"2024-12-06T15:09:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T20:09:30","slug":"acc-delivers-more-than-4300-books-to-brown-santa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/05\/acc-delivers-more-than-4300-books-to-brown-santa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"ACC delivers more than 4,300 books to Brown Santa Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Austin Community College (ACC) delivered more than 4,300 books, puzzles, and games to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office Brown Santa Program Wednesday, December 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sponsored by the ACC Student Government Association, the book drive benefits children of disadvantaged families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u201cIt is so heartwarming and exciting to see the kids wait in line with their parents as they pick up the boxes,\u201d says Sally Hernandez, Travis County sheriff. \u201cAs they carry them off (you) can hear them (ask their parents) \u2018Can we see? What do we have?\u2019 They are very excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ACC students, faculty, and staff donated new or gently used book. New this year, the Brown Santa Program started collecting puzzles and games as another way to help develop skills and creativity among children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s important for children to have the opportunity to read, but it\u2019s all educational,\u201d says Dr. Molly Beth Malcolm, Campus Operations and Public Affairs executive vice president. \u201cWe all like to do different things. Sometimes you want to play with a puzzle. Sometimes it\u2019s a book and sometimes it\u2019s a game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The college has donated more than 28,000 books to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office Brown Santa Program since the partnership launched in 2009.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/accdistrict\/albums\/72157704310859454\/\" title=\"Brown Santa 2018 by Austin Community College, on Flickr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img src='https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/4880\/31253941067_ff2e09c131_z.jpg' width='800' height='600' alt='Brown Santa 2018'><\/a><script async src='https:\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js' charset='utf-8'><\/script>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The book drive benefits children of disadvantaged families.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austin Community College (ACC) delivered more than 4,300 books, puzzles, and games to the Travis County Sheriff\u2019s Office Brown Santa Program Wednesday, December 5. Sponsored by the ACC Student Government Association, the book drive benefits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/2018\/12\/05\/acc-delivers-more-than-4300-books-to-brown-santa-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3930,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13,15,17,18],"tags":[609,612,235,630,1787,1775,1776],"class_list":["post-49113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-community","category-current-students","category-facstaff-news","category-news-and-announcements","category-official-acc-press-releases","tag-book-drive","tag-brown-santa","tag-donations","tag-holiday-book-drive","tag-sally-hernandez","tag-student-government-association","tag-travis-county-sheriffs-office"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3930"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.austincc.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}