{"id":34418,"date":"2018-05-09T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/alaska-airlines-pilots-fund-expansion-at-childrens-therapy-center\/"},"modified":"2018-05-09T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T16:30:00","slug":"alaska-airlines-pilots-fund-expansion-at-childrens-therapy-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/business\/alaska-airlines-pilots-fund-expansion-at-childrens-therapy-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Airlines pilots fund expansion at Children&#8217;s Therapy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Airlines Pilots Charitable Fund (AAPCF) has granted Children&rsquo;s Therapy Center $20,000 to support expansion of their outdoor facilities in Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The AAPCF helps qualified nonprofit organizations serve the needs of youth within the communities of the Alaska Airlines route network and the communities in which their pilots live.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The AAPCF has generously supported Children&rsquo;s Therapy Center for many years,&rdquo; said Barry Gourley, CEO of Children&rsquo;s Therapy Center. &ldquo;This $20,000 grant enables us expand our program by offering more special education classes and playgroups for children.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The grant will be used to add a roof structure to the existing outdoor playground, allowing it to be used more frequently during inclement weather and freeing up indoor space for additional programs.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Demand for our pediatric physical, speech and occupational therapy services has grown tremendously in the past few years,&rdquo; Gourley said. &ldquo;We&rsquo;ve reached capacity indoors. Maximizing the use of outdoor space allows us to move more children off our waiting list and into the programs they need.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Dan Hoffman, president of the Alaska Airlines Pilots Charitable Fund, presented the check on May 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>$20,000 grant will support outdoor facilities in Kent <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":34419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-34418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34418"}],"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=34418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34418"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=34418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}