{"id":15880,"date":"2011-12-05T08:46:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T13:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=15880"},"modified":"2011-12-06T08:55:28","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T13:55:28","slug":"bob-adds-more-than-a-drop-in-the-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2011\/12\/bob-adds-more-than-a-drop-in-the-bucket","title":{"rendered":"BOB Adds More Than A Drop In The Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15881\" title=\"salvation-army\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salvation-army.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salvation-army.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salvation-army-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/salvation-army-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/>The Bank of the Bahamas (BOB) helped kick off the annual Salvation Army kettle drive at the Mall at Marathon recently with a donation of $1,000, hoping to encourage corporate donors to give generously.<\/p>\n<p>The kettle drive touches the lives of more than 6,000 persons during the holidays providing hot meals, food parcels, toys and care packages for those in need and visiting shut-ins and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p>The familiar sight and sound of a bright red kettle and ringing bell stationed at the entrances of grocery stores and malls is synonymous with sharing during the holiday season for many Bahamians.<\/p>\n<p>From L to R: Major Lester Ferguson, Divisional Commander; Ellison Greenslade, Commissioner of Police, Royal Bahamas Police Force; The Hon. Loretta Butler-Turner, Minister of State for Labour and Social Development; Judy Munroe, Salvation Army Advisory Board Chairman; Tonya Farah, Private Banking, BOB; Lt. Col. Lynette Rowe and Lt. Col. Lindsay Rowe, visiting from Jamaica. (Photo by Patrick Hanna, BIS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bank of the Bahamas (BOB) helped kick off the annual Salvation Army kettle drive at the Mall at Marathon recently with a donation of $1,000, hoping to encourage corporate donors to give generously. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[83,61,133],"class_list":["post-15880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-banks","tag-charity","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}