{"id":129456,"date":"2026-01-21T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=129456"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:12:26","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T13:12:26","slug":"feb-14-join-us-for-the-2026-bishop-backers-winter-community-day-and-delaware-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/feb-14-join-us-for-the-2026-bishop-backers-winter-community-day-and-delaware-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 14 \u2013 Join Us for the Bishop Backers Winter Community Day &amp; Delaware Expo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>If your OWU organization is interested in a free table at the expo, <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSdoas4xhs8EBBuiyqZX7OSLs4c432B0KshFExuvXx9YQsRwQA\/viewform\">register here<\/a> before Jan. 31!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Bishop Backers Winter Community Day and Delaware Expo will return on\u00a0<strong>Feb. 14, 2026<\/strong>, when the Battling Bishops men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams play a senior day doubleheader in Branch Rickey Arena. Admission is <strong>free<\/strong> for everyone with an unexpired canned food donation to support the Delaware County Hunger Alliance, a United Way of Delaware County initiative.<\/p>\n<p>The day will begin at noon when the Delaware Expo opens in Gordon Field House to showcase local nonprofit organizations and businesses. The expo runs until 3 p.m., and participants are asked to stay for the full event.<\/p>\n<p>During this year\u2019s Bishop Backers celebration:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Watch the Bishops battle Wooster on the basketball court. (The women\u2019s game begins at 1 p.m. and the men\u2019s game at 3 p.m.)<\/li>\n<li>Meet Ohio Wildlife Center animals.<\/li>\n<li>Enjoy YMCA children\u2019s activities.<\/li>\n<li>Explore a fire safety house.<\/li>\n<li>Learn hands-on CPR from Delaware EMTs.<\/li>\n<li>Find community service opportunities.<\/li>\n<li>Enter a free raffle to win a big-screen TV.<\/li>\n<li>Participate in a 50\/50 raffle to benefit the Hunger Alliance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owu.edu\/news-media\/details\/winter-community-day-2026\/\">Learn more<\/a> about the Bishop Backers and Winter Community Day.<\/p>\n<p>Source: OWU Bishop Backers<br \/>\nContact: Abby Stoner @ amstoner@owu.edu or Cole Hatcher @ cehatche@owu.edu<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your OWU organization is interested in a free table at the expo, register here before Jan. 31! The Bishop Backers Winter Community Day and Delaware Expo will return on\u00a0Feb. 14, 2026, when the Battling Bishops men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s basketball teams play a senior day doubleheader in Branch Rickey Arena. Admission is free for everyone [&hellip;]<\/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-129456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campuswide-news-events"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129456","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=129456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129495,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129456\/revisions\/129495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}