{"id":2166,"date":"2020-04-28T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2020-04-28T15:03:05","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T21:03:05","slug":"rgv-police-give-back-to-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/28\/rgv-police-give-back-to-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"RGV Police Give Back To Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"639\" src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-10.27.24-AM-1024x639.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-10.27.24-AM-1024x639.png 1024w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-10.27.24-AM-300x187.png 300w, https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Screen-Shot-2020-04-27-at-10.27.24-AM-768x479.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Photo, Jerry Galindo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/utrgvradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Police-Department-Deliverse-Food.mp3\"><\/audio><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Last week, Rio Grande\u2019s police departments delivered food from Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc. to families in need to enforce social distancing. Public Information Officer, Arielle Benedict says that the Food Bank of Rio Grande Valley already had their own statistics of the neediest families in the RGV. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benedict clarifies what they mean by neediest families.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>They chose families who have physical disabilities or impairments or families that have members who are mentally disabled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Benedict adds on that the Food Bank gathered their statistics of how many of those families are in each city. They then called police department\u2019s in the RGV to ask if they could help deliver food.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benedict says that on the day of delivery the chief of police and police officers met at the food bank then delivered the food to each family.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Police Chiefs and Officers met at the food bank and picked up the food and they delivered all of the food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Benedict explains what kind of food was delivered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Basic essentials like cereals, milks, orange juice, canned goods, and boxed\u00a0goods.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Mass Communication Freshman Amparo Villanueva recommends for families in need to seek out help from the food bank.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I really do recommend it; they\u2019re providing food to families that really needs it during this Covid-19 pandemic.\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information call (956)-682-8101 or visit their website <a href=\"http:\/\/foodbankrgv.com\">foodbankrgv.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>Reporter Hector Tamez<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, Rio Grande\u2019s police departments delivered food from Food Bank of the Rio Grande Valley Inc. to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":2167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brownsville","category-edinburg"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.4 - 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