{"id":19033,"date":"2025-09-22T10:14:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:14:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T15:14:32","slug":"nextrex-bench-donated-to-effingham-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/19033-nextrex-bench-donated-to-effingham-county\/","title":{"rendered":"NexTrex Bench Donated to Effingham County"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><em>(PICTURED LEFT TO RIGHT: SANDRA DONALDSON, COUNTY BOARD CHAIRMAN JOSH DOUTHIT, D-A-R CHAPTER REGENT SUSAN OLIVER, BETH WATTELET, CONSERVATION COMMITTEE CHAIR BRENDA WAGY, LoELLA BAKER AND DELAINE DONALDSON WITH THE EFFINGHAM COUNTY CULTURAL CENTER AND MUSEUM ASSOCIATION. NOT PICTURED IS JEAN BOHNHOFF, WHO ASSISTED WITH THE PROJECT)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Ann Crooker St. Clair Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution presented Effingham County a NexTrex bench awarded by the Conservation Committee because of the Chapter&#8217;s recycling efforts. Chapter members collected 1,000 pounds of plastic preventing it from ending up in area landfills.<\/p>\n<p>The donated bench will be placed on the Effingham County Cultural Center and Museum Association grounds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(PICTURED LEFT TO RIGHT: SANDRA DONALDSON, COUNTY BOARD CHAIRMAN JOSH DOUTHIT, D-A-R CHAPTER REGENT SUSAN OLIVER, BETH WATTELET, CONSERVATION COMMITTEE CHAIR BRENDA WAGY, LoELLA BAKER AND DELAINE DONALDSON WITH THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NexTrex Bench Donated to Effingham County - 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