{"id":375354,"date":"2026-06-26T03:21:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T03:21:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T03:21:35","slug":"oceanside-preschoolers-donate-to-long-beach-soup-kitchen-herald-community-newspapers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/375354\/","title":{"rendered":"Oceanside preschoolers donate to Long Beach Soup Kitchen | Herald Community Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">More than 100 preschoolers at Loving and Learning Child Care in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/stories\/baldwin-meadow-elementary-kenya-bicycle-project,223249\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oceanside<\/a> gathered outside their classrooms, as cereal boxes dominoed through the corridors. On June 17, the boxes were\u00a0 donated by children and their families to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/longbeach\/stories\/long-beach-soup-kitchen-hunger-awareness-month-2026,222907\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Long Beach Soup Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Colleen Brady, director of Learning and Loving, said the center has hosted donations for the soup kitchen since 2014. In its fourth year, Brady said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/valleystream\/stories\/valley-stream-chamber-food-drive-expands-with-dever-school,218651\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">cereal drive<\/a> always has its charm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cWe feel it\u2019s important to \u2018teach them young,\u2019 that helping others is an important lesson,\u201d Brady said. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely one of the drives that everyone looks forward to each year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 100 preschoolers at Loving and Learning Child Care in Oceanside gathered outside their classrooms, as cereal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[152065,131,133,132,43088,152064,4694,3282],"class_list":["post-375354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-colleen-brady","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-long-beach-soup-kitchen","tag-loving-and-learning-child-care","tag-new-york","tag-oceanside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}