{"id":21751,"date":"2002-04-04T15:21:38","date_gmt":"2002-04-04T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21751"},"modified":"2016-02-09T16:27:58","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T21:27:58","slug":"earth-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2002\/04\/04\/earth-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates College invites community for Earth Day celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to<em> Affirming Our Community<\/em>, an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, 130 Central Avenue.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The gathering will feature a free barbecue and the distribution of spring planting bulbs on a first-come, first-served basis. There will also be live music.<\/p>\n<p>As the college&#8217;s president nears his retirement, at the end of June, the event presents &#8220;a good opportunity for members of the community to extend a farewell wish to Don and Ann Harward,&#8221; says Director of Alumni Relations Elizabeth Sheppard, who is organizing the festivities. Harward&#8217;s initiatives to strengthen the relationship between the college and the Twin Cities are likely to be remembered as an important legacy of his 13 years at Bates.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, call the Bates College Concierge at 207-786-6255.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bates College invites residents of Lewiston and Auburn to &#8220;Affirming Our Community,&#8221; an Earth Day celebration starting at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building, 130 Central Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[30,232,39,31],"tags":[3088,10830],"class_list":["post-21751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-environment-sustainability","category-event-highlights","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-earth-day","tag-lewiston-auburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92688,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21751\/revisions\/92688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}