{"id":109581,"date":"2021-02-13T17:20:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T23:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=109581"},"modified":"2021-02-13T17:20:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T23:20:19","slug":"city-of-oxford-turns-activity-center-into-a-temporary-emergency-shelter-ahead-of-winter-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/city-of-oxford-turns-activity-center-into-a-temporary-emergency-shelter-ahead-of-winter-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Oxford Turns Activity Center into a Temporary Emergency Shelter Ahead of Winter Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <strong>City of Oxford<\/strong> is under a <strong>Winter Storm Warning <\/strong>and expects extreme cold temperatures, ice, and\u00a0snow over the coming days. Mayor <strong>Robyn Tannehill <\/strong>declared a <strong>Local State of Emergency<\/strong> this morning\u00a0 and announced a <strong>Temporary Emergency Shelter<\/strong> is being facilitated at the <strong>Oxford Activity Center<\/strong> located at the corner of <strong>Price Street<\/strong> and <strong>Molly Barr Road<\/strong> for those in need of shelter.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Emergency Shelter will be available tonight, Saturday, February 13th at 9:00 pm and will remain open until further notice. This shelter is open to anyone who needs a safe, warm place to weather this\u00a0 storm. The Emergency Shelter will be staffed 24 hours a day and cots are available. Anyone under 18 years old must be accompanied by an adult.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Churches and organizations across the community will be contacted to help with food and other items\u00a0 needed as we see how many people utilize the shelter. Please help by spreading the word to those in\u00a0need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Residents needing transportation to the Emergency Shelter can call the <strong>Oxford Police Department<\/strong> at 662.232.2400 for assistance.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The City of Oxford is under a Winter Storm Warning and expects extreme cold temperatures, ice, and\u00a0snow over<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":109582,"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":""},"categories":[18174],"tags":[4379,18176,5,17274,4,10727,2092,18178,1448,18177,18175],"class_list":["post-109581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather","tag-city-of-oxford","tag-local-state-of-emergency","tag-mississippi","tag-molly-barr-road","tag-oxford","tag-oxford-activity-center","tag-oxford-police-department","tag-price-street","tag-robyn-tannehill","tag-temporary-emergency-shelter","tag-winter-storm-watch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/winter-storm-warning.jpg?fit=900%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}