{"id":325687,"date":"2026-07-01T06:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325687\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T06:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T06:49:08","slug":"food-distribution-events-set-july-2-in-richlands-and-jacksonville-ymca-seeks-volunteers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325687\/","title":{"rendered":"Food distribution events set July 2 in Richlands and Jacksonville, YMCA seeks volunteers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. \u2014 The New River YMCA is working to make sure children have access to nutritious food while school is out for the summer.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New River YMCA, 473 children were served last week through its Youth Summer Feeding Box Program.<\/p>\n<p>The organization says the program helps provide healthy food options for children and families during the summer months when school meals are not available.<\/p>\n<p>Two food distribution events are scheduled for Thursday, July 2.<\/p>\n<p>A Youth Summer Feeding Box Distribution will be held from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Agape Life Family Church, located at 220 Francktown Road in Richlands.<\/p>\n<p>A Youth Open Market will also be held from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the New River YMCA ELC, located at 159 Chaney Avenue in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>The YMCA says it is also looking for volunteers to help serve the community.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in volunteering can sign up through the New River YMCA\u2019s volunteer website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ONSLOW COUNTY, N.C. \u2014 The New River YMCA is working to make sure children have access to nutritious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-325687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}