{"id":2718,"date":"2019-02-13T11:06:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.midlandexpress.com.au\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2019-02-13T11:07:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-13T00:07:22","slug":"thank-you-one-and-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/opinion\/2019\/02\/13\/thank-you-one-and-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Thank you one and all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fr Wahid Riad, Donna Slingo and Juliet Guy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of St Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Parish of Castlemaine, we would like to thank the community of Castlemaine and surrounds for their positive and generous support of our Community Christmas Luncheon.<br \/>\nWe would like to acknowledge and thank the generous donations made by our local businesses including: Accredited Distributors, Bakers Delight, Castlemaine Fresh Fruit, Castlemaine IGA, Castlemaine Mail, The Coffee Bean, KR Castlemaine, Maxi IGA, Pud for all Seasons, Shoestring Market and The Tender Chook.<br \/>\nA special thank you to all those people who made desserts and salads, who cut up food and helped prepare, serve and clean up afterwards.<br \/>\nFinally a very big thank you to the many people who attended and made it a special and enjoyable Christmas afternoon, which we hope to turn into an annual event.<br \/>\nWe felt truly blessed to be part of such a generous community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fr Wahid Riad, Donna Slingo and Juliet Guy On behalf of St Vincent de Paul and the Catholic Parish of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,13],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[5234],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters","category-opinion"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with 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