{"id":14146,"date":"2016-05-05T09:38:32","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/?p=14146"},"modified":"2016-05-05T09:38:32","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T13:38:32","slug":"pampered-pillowcases-to-bring-joy-to-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/pampered-pillowcases-to-bring-joy-to-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pampered Pillowcases to bring joy to moms"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir<\/strong><\/p>\n

Local moms in need will have their Sunday brightened this week by a return of the Pampered Pillowcases.<\/p>\n

The brainchild of Aurora sisters Lexi and Amanda Benlolo, the Pampered Pillowcase project fills colourful sacks with goodies \u2013 ranging from slippers to cosmetics \u2013 to make women feel pampered through the Women\u2019s Centre of York Region.<\/p>\n

Initiated by the Country Day School last Christmas, the project was so successful the girls decided to bring it back for Mother\u2019s Day, throwing down the gauntlet to Country Day\u2019s Junior School to pick up the challenge \u2013 and they have risen to the occasion.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter we gave the 77 pillow cases to the Women\u2019s Centre, we immediately approached the Country Day School Junior School with the idea to start the Mother\u2019s Day Drive,\u201d says Lexi. \u201cWe wanted to teach them a hands-on learning experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Junior School has a program called Pathways to People, which Amanda says spearheads initiatives to help charities and food drives. When they approached them with the Pampered Pillowcase program, it seemed like a perfect fit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey took a really big initiative in it,\u201d says Amanda. \u201cThey helped all the classes make their own pillow cases. We gave them an example pillow case and everything that would need to be put in it, showed them how to assemble it so it would stay up, be sturdy, and we also said they could make these as personal as they wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n

The girls made their final push for pillow cases on Tuesday and are expected to deliver them to the Women\u2019s Centre this Thursday for Mother\u2019s Day distribution.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe feedback we got [during] the holidays was just incredible,\u201d says Lexi. \u201cThe little things that were in there were just so special to them and each one cherished it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adds Amanda: \u201cWe are hopeful this goes on for years to come, and we hope to have another Christmas Drive and Mother\u2019s Day drive and maybe introduce more.\u201d<\/p>\n\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"mail\"<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Brock Weir Local moms in need will have their Sunday brightened this week by a return of the Pampered Pillowcases. The brainchild of Aurora sisters Lexi and Amanda Benlolo, the Pampered Pillowcase project fills colourful sacks with goodies \u2013 ranging from slippers to cosmetics \u2013 to make women feel pampered through the Women\u2019s Centre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general_news","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3D2k4-3Ga","publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 05:08:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newspapers-online.com\/auroran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}