{"id":5748,"date":"2025-12-23T21:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2025-12-23T21:53:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T21:53:41","slug":"seasons-greetings-from-asrab-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"Season&#8217;s Greetings from ASRAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5749 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-170.jpg\" alt=\"A Collage of ASRAB members participating in various sports and recreation programs.\" width=\"170\" height=\"121\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-170.jpg 170w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-170-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-170-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 170px) 100vw, 170px\" \/>Happy Holidays from ASRAB!<\/h3>\n<p>From the Board of Directors and staff of Alberta Sports and Recreation Association for the Blind (ASRAB), we would like to wish you a fulfilling and active 2025 holiday season and Happy New Year 2026.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Whether you have joined us occasionally for recreational programs or taken part in our on-going goalball or blind hockey programs, it has been a pleasure to see your faces again.<\/p>\n<p>We would like to thank all our volunteers who make all our programs and events possible. We could not do this without you.<\/p>\n<p>Also, we want to thank everyone who participated in our Sight Night 2025 fun runs!<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you goes out towards all those who made our 50th Anniversary events across the province a great success.<\/p>\n<p>We also would like to sincerely thank those of you who donated to ASRAB. These financial contributions greatly assist ASRAB in providing the services and activities to our visually impaired members.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you considering a charitable donation to ASRAB, we remind you that the deadline for receipt for donations is December 31, 2025 (to be eligible for the 2025 return). You can <a href=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/?page_id=99\">make a donation<\/a> through our website.<\/p>\n<p>Please check the ASRAB website and your emails for upcoming winter programming across the province!<\/p>\n<p>We look forward to working with you in the New Year to make this an active and lively 2026!<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Linda MacPhail<\/p>\n<p>Executive Director<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5750\" src=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-1024x731.jpg\" alt=\"A Collage of ASRAB members participating in various sports and recreation programs.\" width=\"550\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-768x548.jpg 768w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-100x71.jpg 100w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-150x107.jpg 150w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-200x143.jpg 200w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-450x321.jpg 450w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-600x429.jpg 600w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025-900x643.jpg 900w, https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ASRAB-happy-holidays-2025.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Holidays from ASRAB! From the Board of Directors and staff of Alberta Sports and Recreation Association for the Blind (ASRAB), we would like to wish you a fulfilling and active 2025 holiday season and Happy New Year 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5751,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions\/5751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asrab.ab.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}