{"id":797,"date":"2015-11-25T12:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/district-751-machinists-raise-284000-for-charity-in-2015\/"},"modified":"2016-10-21T13:20:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-21T20:20:52","slug":"district-751-machinists-raise-284000-for-charity-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/district-751-machinists-raise-284000-for-charity-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"District 751 Machinists raise $284,000 for charity in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Members of Machinists Union District Lodge 751 raised more than $284,000 for Guide Dogs of America in 2015.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>District 751 is one of the top fundraisers for the charity in North America. Over the past seven years, IAM 751 members have raised more than $2 million to help provide service dogs and training in their use for people who are blind or have impaired vision.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The money was raised with a series of fundraisers, which included go-kart races and a weekend of drag racing at Pacific Raceways in Kent, and a horseshoes tournament at the Red Dog Saloon in Maple Valley.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>IAM 751 President Jon Holden presented a check for $284,641.37 at the annual Guide Dogs of America charity banquet in Las Vegas, Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>&#8220;Our members continue to find new ways to help make our community better,&#8221; Holden said. &#8220;Thanks to everyone who contributed their time or their money to this worthy cause in 2015.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>About District 751<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Originally formed in 1935 by hourly workers at the Boeing Co., District Lodge 751 of the International Association of Machinists &amp; Aerospace Workers now represents more than 33,000 working men and women at 52 employers across Washington and California.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Machinists Union District Lodge 751 raised more than $284,000 for Guide Dogs of America in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":798,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-797","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\/797"}],"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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}