{"id":3086,"date":"2020-05-14T10:00:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2020-05-15T07:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T14:19:43","slug":"assembly-candidate-melanie-burkholder-volunteers-for-veterans-and-active-duty-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3086","title":{"rendered":"Assembly Candidate Melanie Burkholder Volunteers for Veterans and Active Duty Service Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State Assembly candidate Melanie Burkholder has been vigilant about helping her community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, she helped a local business connect with veterans in need to distribute food.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last week, ProRich Nutrition and Burkholder passed out high-protein powder and ice cream to thousands of veterans and active duty service members at the Veterans Association of North County. The touchless drive thru service was made extra safe with face masks and gloves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/unnamed-2.jpg\" width=\"391\" height=\"220\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Next month, Burkholder\u2019s volunteers, Mel\u2019s Belles and 76ers, will be joining her to help out. They\u2019ll be there on June 12 from 1 PM-4 PM, and are looking for more volunteers to help this great cause. Those interested can email Burkholder\u2019s team at <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">info@melanieforassembly.com<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to learn more and sign up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from this amazing veterans outreach, Burkholder also organizes weekly virtual town halls and \u201cCooking with the Candidate\u201d sessions to meet with San Diegans and discuss issues that matter to them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This week\u2019s \u201cCooking with the Candidate\u201d session was hosted on Tuesday at 3 PM, while her weekly town hall is every Thursday at 3 PM.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For more information about Melanie Burkholder and her campaign, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/melanieforassembly.com\">MelanieForAssembly.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Assembly candidate Melanie Burkholder has been vigilant about helping her community during the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, she helped a local business connect with veterans in need to distribute food.\u00a0 Last week, ProRich Nutrition and Burkholder passed out high-protein powder and ice cream to thousands of veterans and active duty service members at the Veterans&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Assembly Candidate Melanie Burkholder Volunteers for Veterans and Active Duty Service Members - San Diego News Desk<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sandiegonewsdesk.com\/?p=3086\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Assembly Candidate Melanie Burkholder Volunteers for Veterans and Active Duty Service Members - San Diego News Desk\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"State Assembly candidate Melanie Burkholder has been vigilant about helping her community during the COVID-19 pandemic. 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