{"id":2871,"date":"2009-03-27T13:02:06","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T17:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2871"},"modified":"2023-01-24T13:46:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T18:46:52","slug":"bates-student-helps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/03\/27\/bates-student-helps\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates student helps two communities win $50,000 playground grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/elliott-catherine.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"415\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/03\/elliott-catherine.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full\" alt=\"Catherine Elliott &#039;12\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a striking display of altruism and initiative, a Bates College first-year student collected enough yogurt lids to win a national contest. The prize: $100,000 in grants to help create and improve places for children to play for communities in Maine and Maryland.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On the lid from a yogurt container that she got in the Bates dining hall last fall, Catherine Elliott read about a contest that would provide a grant for a playground upgrade to the organization that collected enough specially marked lids. Working with the Bates community and the Boys &amp; Girls Club of Auburn-Lewiston, what Elliott did was gather enough of the aluminum foil lids \u2014 more than 4,500 \u2014 to win two $50,000 grants from the &#8220;Double Play&#8221; program created by organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm and KaBOOM!, the national nonprofit dedicated to bringing play back to the lives of children.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wcsh6.com\/news\/local\/story.aspx?storyid=103517&amp;catid=2\">Video profile<\/a> from WCSH\/Portland.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a striking display of altruism and initiative, a Bates College first-year student collected enough yogurt lids to win a national contest. The prize: $100,000 in grants to help create and improve places for children to play for communities in Maine and Maryland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[31,220],"tags":[10830,8208],"class_list":["post-2871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","category-service","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-stonyfield-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871","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\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88829,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2871\/revisions\/88829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}