{"id":129458,"date":"2026-02-06T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=129458"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T13:54:48","slug":"feb-14-see-you-at-the-2026-bishop-backers-winter-community-day-and-delaware-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/feb-14-see-you-at-the-2026-bishop-backers-winter-community-day-and-delaware-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb. 14 \u2013 See You at the 2026 Bishop Backers Winter Community Day and Delaware Expo!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Come root for the Bishops and get to know Delaware even better!<\/p>\n<p>The Bishop Backers Winter Community Day and Delaware Expo will be help <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.<\/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>Come root for the Bishops and get to know Delaware even better! The Bishop Backers Winter Community Day and Delaware Expo will be help Feb. 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 with an unexpired canned food [&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-129458","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\/129458","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=129458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129459,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129458\/revisions\/129459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}