{"id":11469,"date":"2012-06-25T12:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/dog-days-charity-event-set-for-aug-17-19-at-pacific-raceways\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T01:25:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T08:25:29","slug":"dog-days-charity-event-set-for-aug-17-19-at-pacific-raceways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/dog-days-charity-event-set-for-aug-17-19-at-pacific-raceways\/","title":{"rendered":"Dog days charity event set for Aug. 17-19 at Pacific Raceways"},"content":{"rendered":"

Machinists Union District Lodge 751 is once again teaming up with Pacific Raceways for their annual \u201cDog Days\u201d charity fundraising event.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The annual Pacific Raceways Guide Dogs Fundraiser will run Aug. 17-19 at the Pacific Raceways drag strip<\/a>, 31001 144th Ave. S.E. in unincorporated Kent.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

District 751 is selling discount tickets for Pacific Raceways\u2019 NHRA Lucas Oil Divisional top fuel dragster and funny car races, which will take place that weekend.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Tickets are $5 and good for one day\u2019s entry to the races. Tickets are on sale at all District 751 union halls in Puget Sound, including the Auburn Hall at 201 A St. S.W.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In addition to the professionals, amateur racers from District 751 will take part in the weekend\u2019s activities, said Robley Evans, who heads up the Pacific Raceways event for the union.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are probably 15 Machinists Union guys who race,\u201d he said. \u201cEverything from drag racers to motorcycles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

All proceeds will go to Guide Dogs of America, a California-based charity that provides service dogs to people across North America who are blind or have impaired vision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Machinists District 751 is the top fundraiser for Guide Dogs of America. Last year, members of the union collected more than $263,000 for the charity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Originally formed in 1935 to represent hourly workers at the Boeing Co., District Lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists & Aerospace Workers now represents some 32,000 working men and women at 48 employers across Washington, Oregon and California.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Machinists Union District Lodge 751 is once again teaming up with Pacific Raceways for their annual \u201cDog Days\u201d charity fundraising event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469"}],"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=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}