{"id":58667,"date":"2022-07-05T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/battle-of-the-badges-raises-money-for-kent-federal-way-food-banks\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:13:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T22:13:53","slug":"battle-of-the-badges-raises-money-for-kent-federal-way-food-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/battle-of-the-badges-raises-money-for-kent-federal-way-food-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Battle of the Badges raises money for Kent, Federal Way food banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Battle of the Badges food competition among Kent Police, Federal Way Police and Puget Sound Fire raised $3,022 to be split between food banks in both cities.<\/p>\n<p>The participants from the three agencies showed up at 7 a.m. July 1 at the Grocery Outlet, 32945 Pacific Highway S., in Federal Way to see how many items they could place in carts in two minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We want to thank Federal Way PD and Puget Sound Fire for joining us at the Grocery Outlet in Federal Way for our 5th Battle of the Badges,&rdquo; according to a Kent Police statement.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police competed against Auburn Police in October 2021 at the Auburn Grocery Outlet. Kent Police previously competed against Puget Sound Fire at the Kent location.<\/p>\n<p>James Byun, owner of the Kent Grocery Outlet, helped organized the event at the Federal Way location.<\/p>\n<p>July is Grocery Outlet&rsquo;s &ldquo;Independence from Hunger&rsquo;&rdquo; month where they focus on giving to their communities to help solve food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We appreciate their willingness to host these events, donate the proceeds and let us help them raise awareness about the needs of the food banks that serve our neighborhoods,&rdquo; according to Kent Police.<\/p>\n<p>Kent Police said another Battle of the Badges will return in a few months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police officers from each city and Puget Sound Fire compete in grocery story showdown <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":212,"featured_media":58668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-58667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58667"}],"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\/212"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58667\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58667"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=58667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}