{"id":141640,"date":"2024-04-26T15:59:43","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/?p=141640"},"modified":"2024-04-26T15:59:43","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T20:59:43","slug":"volunteer-spotlight-celia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/volunteer-spotlight\/volunteer-spotlight-celia","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Spotlight &#8211; Celia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" data-id=\"141645\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer Celia with GiGi's Playhouse Twin Cities Participants at the 2023 GiGi's Playhouse Twin Cities Gala\" class=\"wp-image-141645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/Celia-Gala-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Celia at GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Twin Cities 2023 Gala<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-2048x2048\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1392\" height=\"2048\" data-id=\"141646\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-1392x2048.jpg\" alt=\"Volunteer Celia with two GiGi's Playhouse Twin Cities participants at Achievers. \" class=\"wp-image-141646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-1392x2048.jpg 1392w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-696x1024.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-768x1130.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3-1044x1536.jpg 1044w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/files\/2024\/04\/celia-with-participants-3.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1392px) 100vw, 1392px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Celia at Achievers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Introducing Celia, one of our amazing volunteers! She has given of her time on and off at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities for 8 years. \u201cI love my GiGi\u2019s friends! There is not a program or day that I don\u2019t look forward to coming to the Playhouse and being with my volunteer and participant friends!\u201d said Celia. We know our participants look forward to seeing her as well. She is always greeted with a loud yell of \u201cCelia\u201d followed by a big hug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you might have seen on social media, we have been working on pickleball with our participants during the fitness portion of Achievers, and Celia has taken the lead. Every week, our participants learn new skills and have fun while doing it. Participants run to our gym when it is their turn to play, and some even ask to stay later. We have both seasoned and new pickleball players and she ensures that everyone has fun and feels successful no matter what their physical capabilities are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like many of our volunteers, they don&#8217;t just give; they also receive something back, and Celia is no exception. She said, \u201cGiGi\u2019s has taught me so much! The biggest is the immense capacity of love that you can have and outwardly share with others (plus a bit of patience).\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the 8 years of volunteering, Celia has many great memories, but what stands out is Drama Troupe. \u201cI absolutely have loved seeing all the participants&#8217; hard work and practice come to the stage for the Drama Troupe performances. We have some top actors in our bunch!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you, Celia, for being an amazing volunteer at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities. We appreciate your commitment to the success of our programs!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you are interested in volunteering at GiGi&#8217;s Playhouse Twin Cities: <a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/volunteer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/volunteer\">Learn More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing Celia, one of our amazing volunteers! She has given of her time on and off at GiGi\u2019s Playhouse Twin Cities for 8 years. \u201cI love my GiGi\u2019s friends! There is not a program or day that I don\u2019t look forward to coming to the Playhouse and being with my volunteer and participant friends!\u201d said Celia. We know our participants look forward to seeing her as well. She is always greeted with a loud yell of \u201cCelia\u201d followed by a big hug.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16099,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987],"tags":[176,221,926,988],"class_list":["post-141640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volunteer-spotlight","tag-gigisplayhousetc","tag-inclusion","tag-volunteers","tag-volunteerspotlight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16099"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/twincities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}