{"id":125138,"date":"2025-02-19T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=125138"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:14:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T13:14:36","slug":"bishop-backer-community-day-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/bishop-backer-community-day-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Backers Community Day & Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Come join us for the annual Bishop Backers Community Day & Expo on Saturday, Feb. 22.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0The family-friendly event will include free admission to an OWU\u00a0women\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0men\u2019s varsity basketball<\/a> doubleheader, and a Delaware Expo featuring children\u2019s activities, local nonprofits and businesses, CPR training, Columbus Zoo, YMCA, Delaware Police & Fire, Humane Society, and lots more.<\/p>\n

Admission is free with a canned food donation \u2013 unexpired, please \u2013 or a monetary donation to benefit the Delaware County Hunger Alliance<\/a>, a\u00a0United Way of Delaware County<\/a> initiative.<\/p>\n

Doors open to the public at noon. The celebration will be held in Ohio Wesleyan University\u2019s Branch Rickey Arena and Gordon Field House<\/a>, with parking available throughout campus.<\/p>\n

During the community celebration, the Battling Bishops will take on the Big Red of Denison University in OWU\u2019s last home games of the season. It also will be senior day for the Ohio Wesleyan athletes. The women\u2019s game will tip off at 1 p.m. and the men\u2019s game will follow at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Athletics
\nContact: Doug Zipp at\u00a0dwzipp@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Come join us for the annual Bishop Backers Community Day & Expo on Saturday, Feb. 22.\u00a0\u00a0The family-friendly event will include free admission to an OWU\u00a0women\u2019s\u00a0and\u00a0men\u2019s varsity basketball doubleheader, and a Delaware Expo featuring children\u2019s activities, local nonprofits and businesses, CPR training, Columbus Zoo, YMCA, Delaware Police & Fire, Humane Society, and lots more. Admission is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2057,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2057"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125192,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125138\/revisions\/125192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}