{"id":19662,"date":"2013-11-29T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T11:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19662"},"modified":"2013-11-29T11:56:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T16:56:40","slug":"christmas-tree-sale-benefits-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=19662","title":{"rendered":"Christmas tree sale benefits veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><b>Tree sale proceeds will help fund therapy dogs for vets<\/b><\/h3>\n<div id=\"attachment_665310\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paws4people1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-665310\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-665310 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Paws4people\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Paws4people1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-665310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christmas trees will go on sale starting Nov. 30 at Northbrook Marketplace, with proceeds benefitting a program to train therapy dogs for wounded military veterans. Four of the dogs in the training program, like those pictured above, will be on hand for shoppers to meet.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POCOPSON \u2014 Northbrook Marketplace, on the corner of Northbrook and Unionville Wawaset \u00a0Roads, will again be a site for Christmas Tree Sales benefitting Paws4Vets,\u00a0a charitable organization that trains service dogs\u00a0for Veterans in need of these 4 legged companions.<\/p>\n<p>Sales will start Nov 30, as soon as the trees arrive.\u00a0 These will be freshly cut Christmas trees as cutting only begins on the day after Thanksgiving\u00a0and then the trees are immediately shipped to Northbrook.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There will be two types of trees, Fraser Firs and Douglas Firs, from\u00a0 4&#8242; to 10&#8242;. The Douglas Firs are from northern Pennsylvania and the Fraser Firs are from\u00a0North Carolina. \u00a0There will also be undecorated wreaths and pine roping for sale. \u00a0The hours of the sale are Monday through Friday, 3 &#8211; 6pm, and weekends, 8 am-6pm. (Cash, Checks or Credit Card.)<\/p>\n<p>And yes, as exciting as picking the tree will, visitors can visit with\u00a0four dogs that are in the program &#8211; two golden retrievers, a black lab, and a chocolate Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<p>Additional info about this organization can be obtained at Paws4Vets and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/paws4people.org\/\">Paws4People.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree sale proceeds will help fund therapy dogs for vets POCOPSON \u2014 Northbrook Marketplace, on the corner of Northbrook and Unionville Wawaset \u00a0Roads, will again be a site for Christmas Tree Sales benefitting Paws4Vets,\u00a0a charitable organization that trains service dogs\u00a0for Veterans in need of these 4 legged companions. Sales will start Nov 30, as soon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,924,7],"tags":[2024,4566,4565],"class_list":["post-19662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-community","category-events","category-featured","tag-northbrook-marketplace","tag-paws4vets","tag-therapy-dogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}