Chula Vista Community Collaborative (CVCC) and FIT Gym have collected Halloween costumes for local children, but have fallen short of their goal. <\/p>\n
The organizations collected new Halloween costumes for children ages 4 to 12 from families who may not have the financial resources to purchase costumes.<\/p>\n
“Every child deserves to experience the joy and excitement of Halloween,” said Jovita Arellano, Family Resource Center Coordinator for the Chula Vista Community Collaborative. <\/p>\n
Arellano said 150 children signed up but unfortunately, donations have been coming in very slowly. The organizations reached out to the community to help reach their donation goal. <\/p>\n
“This is about so much more than a Halloween costume,” Arellano said. “It’s about bringing happiness to a child, lifting the burden from a struggling family, and reminding our families that they are not alone.”<\/p>\n
The organizations said community members can help by:<\/p>\n
Donating a new Halloween costumes for children ages 4\u201312<\/p>\n
Organizing a costume collection at your business, church, school, or organization<\/p>\n
Sponsoring the purchase of costumes for children in need<\/p>\n
Sharing the message throughout the community<\/p>\n
The deadline for costume donations is Wednesday, Oct. 21.<\/p>\n
Donations can be dropped off at 540 G Street, Chula Vista, CA 91910 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/p>\n
For those with questions about donations, the organizations advise to contact Jovita Arellano at (619) 227-4588. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Community Collaborative (CVCC) and FIT Gym have collected Halloween costumes for local children, but have fallen…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[9974,585,2646,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-496809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-chula-vista","tag-halloween","tag-holidays","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496809","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=496809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}