{"id":29540,"date":"2019-11-14T14:19:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=29540"},"modified":"2019-11-14T14:19:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T19:19:17","slug":"boatload-of-toys-getting-underway-for-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/11\/14\/boatload-of-toys-getting-underway-for-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Boatload of Toys\u2019 Getting Underway for 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural Resources Police Starts Annual Toy Drive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright \" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/679\/31472971092_db237936a9.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of officers with patrol boat collecting toys\" width=\"343\" height=\"229\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/nrp\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Natural Resources Police<\/a> invites everyone aboard for its annual \u201cBoatload of Toys\u201d drive, collecting donations of new and unopened items for children in need. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As part of the drive, a Natural Resources Police patrol boat will be set up outside several retailers in Maryland beginning Nov. 23, with the goal of filling the entire boat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Officers and other staff manage this program each year as part of the national Marine Toys for Tots program, which was created at the behest of the U.S. Marine Corps to collect and distribute toys to less fortunate children during the holiday season.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Natural Resources Police staff will be at the following locations:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Denton, Nov. 23<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart, 610 Legion Road<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">9 a.m. to 3 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Berlin, Nov. 23-24<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart, 11416 Ocean Gateway<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Edgewater, Nov. 30<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kmart, 3255 Solomons Island Road<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Frederick, Dec. 7<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Kmart, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">1003 W. Patrick St.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Pocomoke, Dec. 7<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart, 2132 Old Snow Hill Road<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Hanover, Dec. 14<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bass Pro Shops (Arundel Mills), 7000 Arundel Mills Circle<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 2 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Salisbury, Dec. 14-15<br \/>\n<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walmart, 2702 N. Salisbury Blvd.<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">10 a.m. to 4 p.m.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Natural Resources Police Starts Annual Toy Drive The Maryland Natural Resources Police invites everyone aboard for its annual \u201cBoatload of Toys\u201d drive, collecting donations of new and unopened items for children in need. As part of the drive, a Natural Resources Police patrol boat will be set up outside several retailers in Maryland beginning Nov.<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/11\/14\/boatload-of-toys-getting-underway-for-2019\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,14],"tags":[5126,4975],"class_list":["post-29540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-nrp-news","tag-boatload-of-toys","tag-maryland-natural-resources-police"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29540"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29542,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29540\/revisions\/29542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}