{"id":33785,"date":"2004-04-30T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-30T19:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33785"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:31:46","slug":"earth-day-draws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/04\/30\/earth-day-draws\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day event draws 4,000 Lewiston-Auburn residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/04\/72affirming3615.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/04\/72affirming3615.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"72affirming3615\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than 4,000 barbeque meals &#8212; a new record &#8212; and 6,400 gladiolus and lily bulbs were distributed to all comers Thursday as Bates invited its Lewiston and Auburn neighbors to its annual Earth Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>The event, called &#8220;Affirming Our Community,&#8221; was held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. inside and on the lawn outside of the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building on Central Avenue.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The gathering featured a free barbecue and the distribution of bulbs &#8212; 410 bags were filled with 12 gladiolus bulbs and another 500 bags filled with 3 lily bulbs &#8212; for spring planting on a first-come, first-served basis. Scrod Pudding, a popular Maine contradance band, performed.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Biscoe, director of the Office of Special Projects and Summer Programs at Bates, said the event is a way for Bates to express its gratitude to the Twin Cities and its concern for the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the event, Biscoe&#8217;s office worked with Bates students in the Longley School Mentoring Program. After-school pupils at Lewiston&#8217;s Gov. James B. Longley Elementary School packed the bulbs in bags with planting instructions and markers for the blossom colors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 4,000 barbeque meals &#8212; a new record &#8212; and 6,400 gladiolus and lily bulbs were distributed to all comers Thursday as Bates invited its Lewiston and Auburn neighbors to its annual Earth Day celebration.<\/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":[30,31,17],"tags":[10830,7792],"class_list":["post-33785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-lewiston-auburn","category-partners-public","tag-lewiston-auburn","tag-scrod-pudding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785","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=33785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90717,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33785\/revisions\/90717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}