{"id":15210,"date":"2014-12-10T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-luncheon-helps-the-homeless-needy-families\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T19:55:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T02:55:35","slug":"kent-luncheon-helps-the-homeless-needy-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-luncheon-helps-the-homeless-needy-families\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent luncheon helps the homeless, needy families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>Reporter staff<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Community leaders and supporters \u2013 about 70 strong \u2013\u00a0attended the Hope for Families fundraising event at the Golden Steer Steak &#8216;n Rib House on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event offered a free lunch for those who donated sleeping bags, jackets, gloves, hats, socks, cash or checks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>More than 30 sleeping bags and blankets were donated to the Seattle&#8217;s Union Gospel Mission, according to event coordinator Sally Goodgion. Many of the items went to struggling families through the PTA clothing bank.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Other donations were distributed to other organizations in the area.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The event&#8217;s Christmas item dash brought in $2,200, and many stuffed animals were donated to the Kent Police Department.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The group was inspired and moved by the life stories of Ring Bol, from the Seattle&#8217;s Union Gospel Mission, and Louisa Campos, of Chick&#8217;s Place.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Community leaders and supporters \u2013 about 70 strong \u2013 attended the Hope for Families fundraising event at the Golden Steer Steak &#8216;n Rib House on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":15211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15210","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\/15210"}],"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=15210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15210\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15210"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}