{"id":30773,"date":"2017-10-04T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/benefit-walk-raises-26739-to-fight-hunger\/"},"modified":"2017-10-04T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:59:02","slug":"benefit-walk-raises-26739-to-fight-hunger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/benefit-walk-raises-26739-to-fight-hunger\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit walk raises $26,739 to fight hunger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 25th annual Dr. Dave Turner Memorial Kent CROP Hunger Walk attracted 111 participants from eight organizations on Sunday, raising $26,739 to help end hunger.<\/p>\n<p>The community-led, Church World Service-sponsored 5&#189;-mile walk took participants through the streets of Kent and along the Green River and Interurban trails in a show of solidarity with those who walk each day long distances for food and water.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five percent of the funds collected &#8211; a total of $6,685 &#8211; supports three local hunger organizations: the homeless men&rsquo;s shelter HOME; Kent Community Supper, which serves a free supper each and every Monday night at Kent Lutheran Church; and the Kent Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>This year&rsquo;s event was renamed to honor the memory of Turner, a longtime practicing physician, who, with his wife Nancy, started and coordinated the walk for its first 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crophungerwalk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">crophungerwalk.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 25th annual Dr. Dave Turner Memorial Kent CROP Hunger Walk attracted 111 participants from eight organizations on Sunday, raising $26,739 to help end hunger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":30774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-30773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773"}],"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=30773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30773"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=30773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}