{"id":12826,"date":"2013-10-14T14:32:35","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T21:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/union-go-kart-race-raises-15000-for-guide-dogs-of-america\/"},"modified":"2016-10-24T00:40:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T07:40:27","slug":"union-go-kart-race-raises-15000-for-guide-dogs-of-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/union-go-kart-race-raises-15000-for-guide-dogs-of-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Union go-kart race raises $15,000 for Guide Dogs of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Machinists Union Local Lodge 751-F and PGP Motorsports Park teamed up recently to raise more than $15,000 for charity.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The union held its first-ever &#8220;Karting Challenge&#8221; at the track on Sept. 7. A total of 22 teams \u2014 each with four drivers \u2014 raced for two straight hours on the PGP go-kart track.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;This was a really fun event,&#8221; said Local F Vice President Robley Evans, who was one of the organizers. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking to do it again next year, and expand it so we can have more people and more teams participate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>All the money raised goes to Guide Dogs of America, a California-based charity that provides service dogs and training in their use, free of charge, to people who are blind or have impaired vision from across the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Local 751-F is affiliated with Machinists Union District Lodge 751, which is the No. 1 fundraiser for Guide Dogs of America. Over the past four years, the union has raised more than $1 million for the charity, including a record $299,000 in 2012.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Machinists Union Local Lodge 751-F and PGP Motorsports Park teamed up recently to raise more than $15,000 for charity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":12827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-12826","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\/12826"}],"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=12826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12826"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}