  {"id":17379,"date":"2021-02-09T19:41:10","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T03:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=17379"},"modified":"2021-02-09T19:41:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-10T03:41:11","slug":"valentines-at-valsetz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/valentines-at-valsetz\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine&#8217;s at Valsetz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Campus dining has altered its traditional Valentine\u2019s Day celebrations<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Sydney Carpenter<\/strong> | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>During the holidays, Western\u2019s campus bakery is bustling with activity; from baking sweet treats for various functions on campus to filling special orders for students, staff or faculty, the bakery makes frosted smiles for all during the holidays.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Valentine\u2019s at Valsetz Dining Hall in no exception. Students have their pick of cookies, cakes, brownies or specialty desserts. This year however, Valsetz has downsized their celebration as a result of COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As an alternative to the big heart cookies with personal messages and special Valentine\u2019s Day grams, Valsetz is packaging half a dozen Otis cookies in three varieties for $3, lemon bars covered in a berry drizzle for $1 and packaging half a dozen vegan and gluten free truffles for $4.50.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2021\/02\/valsets2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17338\" width=\"3604\" height=\"2703\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThis is where I show the most love to the students,\u201d explained baker Pam Flippo. \u201cI care very much about desserts I put out and I care very much about my baked goods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Flippo, to ensure student safety during COVID, all deserts will be packaged. For students interested in ordering for Valentine\u2019s Day, email <\/span><a href=\"mailto:flippop@mail.wou.edu\"><span>flippop@mail.wou.edu<\/span><\/a><span> by Feb. 13 to customize any of the desserts being offered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16738\" width=\"4220\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line.png 4220w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-300x6.png 300w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1024x20.png 1024w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-768x15.png 768w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1536x30.png 1536w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-2048x40.png 2048w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2020\/12\/lighter-gray-line-1080x21.png 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4220px) 100vw, 4220px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span>Contact the author at <a href=\"mailto:scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu\">scarpenter18@mail.wou.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campus dining has altered its traditional Valentine\u2019s Day celebrations<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Carpenter | News Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":17339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[704,706,705,703,143,146,702,662,660,663,390,39],"class_list":["post-17379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-baking","tag-cakes","tag-cookies","tag-desserts","tag-news","tag-sydney","tag-syndey-carpenter","tag-valentine","tag-valentines-day","tag-valentines","tag-valsetz","tag-wou"],"modified_by":"The Western Howl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}