{"id":16573,"date":"2010-05-13T17:53:45","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T00:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-downtown-partnership-banquet-is-june-26-theme-is-sportstown-usa\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T16:25:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T23:25:35","slug":"kent-downtown-partnership-banquet-is-june-26-theme-is-sportstown-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/kent-downtown-partnership-banquet-is-june-26-theme-is-sportstown-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent Downtown Partnership banquet is June 26 &#8211; theme is Sportstown USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest fundraisers for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentdowntown.org\">Kent Downtown Partnership<\/a> takes place June 26 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ci.kent.wa.us\/content.aspx?id=1306\">Kent Senior Activities Center.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The annual KDP Dinner Auction is going with a sports-theme, calling this year\u2019s event \u201cI love Kent, Sportstown USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In keeping with that theme, event supporters can purchase tables of eight, and choose a sport or a team for that table, going with appropriate colors and memorabilia. Starting it off, KDP President Mark Albertson bought the first table and named it for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattlethunderbirds.com\">Seattle Thunderbirds.<\/a> Other team names taken so far include the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Mariners.MLB.com\">Mariners,<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/ratcityrollergirls.com\">Rat City Rollergirls<\/a> and the  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kentpredators.com\">Kent Predators.<\/a> Tables and teams are selected on a first-come, first-served basis. Information: 253-813-6976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest fundraisers for the Kent Downtown Partnership takes place June 26 at the Kent Senior Activities Center.<br \/>\nThe annual KDP Dinner Auction is going with a sports-theme, calling this year\u2019s event \u201cI love Kent, Sportstown USA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-16573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573"}],"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=16573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16573"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=16573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}