{"id":661,"date":"2011-02-09T01:18:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingbridgescharlottesville.org\/blog\/a-years-review-2010"},"modified":"2016-01-25T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:42:40","slug":"a-years-review-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/a-years-review-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"A Years Review &#8211; 2010!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dear friends, families and fellow supporters of Building a Bridge<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year 2011 to all of you. <br \/>\nThe year 2010 was exciting for us in so many aspects. For instance in June, we received a wonderful donation, a Toyota seven-seater van, as we reported earlier. At that time, I told Charlottesville\u2019s The Daily Progress the van was \u201cmore than I could have hoped for.\u201d  Little did we know at the time just how fast our Bridgers would take to it &#8212; kayaking in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33389411@N08\/sets\/72157625885932419\/show\/\">Chesapeake Bay<\/a>, visiting a farm in Staunton, and touring Washington DC and the National Zoo, the Mall, and its monuments.  <\/p>\n<p>So, too, the spirit of Building a Bridge has been on the move as we have expanded our outreach with Celebrity Bartending, <span class=\"caps\">VSA<\/span> Art Show, 10-10-10 Loving the Arts, the Day of Caring, Celebration of Community and the Heritage Holiday Parade, while welcoming new volunteer residential counselors from as far away as California and Germany.  <br \/>\nOur dedicated staff has provided  reliable support and &#8212; in addition to what I mentioned above&#8212; many happy and fun moments for our residents: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33389411@N08\/sets\/72157625881111033\/show\/\">bowling trips<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33389411@N08\/sets\/72157625881348915\/show\/\">birthday parties<\/a> and the Halloween party, just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p>The year then ended with our Belmont Christmas party, where we welcomed families and many friends from the Charlottesville community.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad to report that, as our economy continues to rise up from the Great Recession, the year 2010 has proven to be one of the most fulfilling years in Building a Bridge\u2019s recent history. Thanks to your year-end donations, we have a good start into 2011 to keep up the momentum and hope to make 2011 the best year yet. <br \/>\nThank you to all our wonderful and committed supporters.<br \/>\nBest wishes to all of you.<br \/>\nDaniela Ghaida &#8211; Executive Director<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;The Daily Progress was able to say \u201cthe folks at Building a Bridge are an above average family\u201d because people like you make us a part of yours.&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photos provided by Amber Critchley and Joan Bullard<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Dear friends, families and fellow supporters of Building a Bridge<\/strong>,<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year 2011 to all of you. <br \/>\nThe year 2010 was exciting for us in so many aspects<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}