{"id":10539,"date":"2015-10-28T15:28:23","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T22:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/luncheon-raises-funds-for-multi-service-center\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T20:55:37","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T03:55:37","slug":"luncheon-raises-funds-for-multi-service-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/luncheon-raises-funds-for-multi-service-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Luncheon raises funds for Multi-Service Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Elected officials and community leaders throughout South King County gathered at Emerald Downs on Oct. 22 for Multi-Service Center\u2019s (MSC) second annual MSC Helps Luncheon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Kent City Councilmember Jim Berrios, Federal Way Councilmember Bob Celski and former Auburn mayor Pete Lewis co-chaired the luncheon.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Meeghan Black, formerly of \u201cEvening Magazine,\u201d emceed the event. The 219 guests included local elected officials and community leaders. Mary Forbes, retired colonel and assistant director of Veterans Services at the Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>While the event supports all of Multi-Service Center\u2019s programs throughout South King County, the focus of this year\u2019s luncheon was how the community can support veterans. So far, more than $53,000 has been raised through this event to provide help, hope and change for community members in need.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Donations can be made online at <a title=\"link\" href=\"http:\/\/mschelps.org\/donate\/\" target=\"_self\">mschelps.org\/donate\/<\/a>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elected officials and community leaders throughout South King County gathered at Emerald Downs on Oct. 22 for Multi-Service Center\u2019s (MSC) second annual MSC Helps Luncheon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":10540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-10539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10539"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=10539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}