{"id":19731,"date":"2008-08-26T10:46:59","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T17:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/briefly-24\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T13:05:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T20:05:35","slug":"briefly-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/life\/briefly-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Briefly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Free eye exams slated in Des Moines<\/p>\n<p>Evergreen Eye Care will provide free eye exams and eye-glass cleaning for seniors from 11 a.m. to noon Sept. 3 at the Des Moines Activity Center, 2045 S. 216th St., Des Moines. Seniors should call ahead for 15-minute appointments. For details, call 206-878-1642.<\/p>\n<p>Church celebrates heritage Sept. 7<\/p>\n<p>Kent United Methodist Church will have a special heritage celebration at the 9:30 a.m. worship service Sept. 7 at the church, 11010 S.E. 248th St. During the service, the church will commemorate its history \u2013 stretching back to the 1860s \u2013 with a special service, video and ringing of old church bells. All are welcome. For details, call 253-852-3900.<\/p>\n<p>South Side Dance offers open house<\/p>\n<p>South Side Dance Force will offer an open house and barbecue 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 6 at the dance studio, 704 W. Meeker St., Kent. All are welcome to come learn about dance-program offerings, and to enjoy a free performance. For details, call 253-639-5829 or visit www.ssdanceforce.com.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Library book sale coming up<\/p>\n<p>The Friends of the Kent Regional Library will present their annual book sale Sept. 19 through 21 at the library, 212 Second Ave. N. Sale hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 19 and 20, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sept. 21. Books cost 50 cents; videos, audio books and DVDs are $1 each. Proceeds benefit library programs sponsored by the Friends. For details, call 253-859-3330.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free eye exams slated in Des Moines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731"}],"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=19731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19731"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}