{"id":5965,"date":"2019-12-05T22:37:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T03:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eagleeyemedia.org\/?p=5965"},"modified":"2019-12-11T22:46:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T03:46:43","slug":"shop-for-opp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eagleeyemedia.org\/?p=5965","title":{"rendered":"Shop for Opp!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Greater Texarkana Young Professionals and Opportunities Inc. came together to share their Holiday cheer for Shop for Opp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Opportunities Inc. Facebook page their mission &#8220;is to provide developmental and support services which assist individuals in attaining a full life in the community.&#8221; A recent A&amp;M Texarkana grad student, Rebekah Drennon is the Director of Development for Opportunities Inc. She has provided and organized for GTYP to adopt two families who can not afford Christmas gifts this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GTYP members met the families at Pecan Point at 5:30 p.m. From there the members and family will do their shopping. The cost was covered by each member bringing a suggested amount of $10-$20. Rebekah provided a list on the Facebook event page for the members to properly prepare for efficient shopping. Once the shopping was complete everyone met at Pecan Point for dinner and networking. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This event was a great example of Texarkana locals coming together to spread the Holiday cheer for the community. For more information visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/greatertexarkanayoungprofessionals\/\">GTYP<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OppInc\/\">Opportunities Inc. <\/a>Facebook pages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, December 3, 2019 Greater Texarkana Young Professionals and Opportunities Inc. came together to share their Holiday cheer for Shop for Opp. According to the Opportunities Inc. Facebook page their mission &#8220;is to provide developmental and support services which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/eagleeyemedia.org\/?p=5965\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[311,300],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am-events","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3odG9-1yd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2496,"url":"https:\/\/eagleeyemedia.org\/?p=2496","url_meta":{"origin":5965,"position":0},"title":"Come Home to A&amp;M-Texarkana!","author":"Rebekah Drennon","date":"October 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"October 9-14\u00a0Texas A&M-Texarkana Eagles gear up for Homecoming 2017! 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