{"id":1089,"date":"2013-04-13T09:52:47","date_gmt":"2013-04-13T15:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westport.org\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:55:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T19:55:37","slug":"westport-federal-credit-union-volunteers-at-westport-high-school-for-credit-for-life-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/westport-federal-credit-union-volunteers-at-westport-high-school-for-credit-for-life-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Westport Federal Credit Union Volunteers at Westport High School for Credit for Life Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1090\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8AFB93E-5785-46B5-96AE-377C35FAE4F0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1090\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1090\" src=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8AFB93E-5785-46B5-96AE-377C35FAE4F0-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"WFCU Volunteers: CVB Manager, Danielle Simonin; Marketing\/PR Coordinator, Katie Greene; Main Office Head Teller, Debra Carvalho\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8AFB93E-5785-46B5-96AE-377C35FAE4F0-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8AFB93E-5785-46B5-96AE-377C35FAE4F0-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-content\/uploads\/B8AFB93E-5785-46B5-96AE-377C35FAE4F0.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1090\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WFCU Volunteers: CVB Manager, Danielle Simonin; Marketing\/PR Coordinator, Katie Greene; Main Office Head Teller, Debra Carvalho<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, April 11th, Westport Federal Credit Union partnered with BayCoast Bank and other area businesses for the first annual Credit for Life fair at Westport High School.<\/p>\n<p>Students were given a monthly budget sheet to complete and then had to visit booths to get clothing, credit \u00a0and lending, education, health and nutrition, personal luxury, furniture, housing, insurance, savings &amp; retirement, transportation, community service, and a job search. \u00a0Once students visited all the booths, they headed over to our Westport Federal Credit Union volunteers, who were serving as credit counselors, to discuss the budget choices the students had made and provided them with guidance about their choices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; On Thursday, April 11th, Westport Federal Credit Union partnered with BayCoast Bank and other area businesses for the first annual Credit for Life fair at Westport High School. Students were given a monthly budget sheet to complete and then had to visit booths to get clothing, credit \u00a0and lending, education, health and nutrition, personal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":1090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-promos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4935,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions\/4935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandieboxx.com\/grapes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}