{"id":1179292,"date":"2022-11-14T08:59:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T14:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1179292"},"modified":"2022-11-15T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-15T16:35:00","slug":"troup-community-hosts-fish-fry-and-auction-to-support-cooper-reid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1179292","title":{"rendered":"Troup community hosts fish fry and auction to support Cooper Reid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1179293\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/CooperReid-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>TROUP &#8212; Troup residents held a fish fry and auction in order to take some financial burden off of Cooper Reid and his family. Reid was severely injured during a Troup football game in September. At last count, Saturday&#8217;s benefit raised $72,000 for Reid and his family. According to our news partner KETK, after more than a month of being hospitalized in Tyler, Reid was transferred to TIRR Memorial Herman in Houston for the next phase of treatment. His family members are taking time off from work to stay by his side. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153His medical bills are gonna be, we have no idea what they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be and so we just want to do whatever we can to take some of the burden off of them so they can focus on Cooper and help Cooper get better and what he needs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Mandi Braswell, Troup resident.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>At the auction, a woman bought a signed Patrick Mahomes jersey for $6,000. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Mahomes jersey, golf clubs, coolers and stuff, anything you can think of. It really shows how much people loved Cooper, love his family and really just want to help,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d friend of Reid, Grayson Hearon said. Earlier this month their online auction raised $32,000 for Reid and his family.<\/p>\n<p>Fish fry attendees say this is one of the best parts of living in a small town. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It means a lot, the community\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been great, its really brought us together,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hearon. They never forget the power of prayer during this difficult time. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The scripture his mom has been claiming, Exodus 14:14, the Lord shall fight for you, you only need to be still,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Braswell.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TROUP &#8212; Troup residents held a fish fry and auction in order to take some financial burden off of Cooper Reid and his family. Reid was severely injured during a Troup football game in September. At last count, Saturday&#8217;s benefit raised $72,000 for Reid and his family. According to our news partner KETK, after more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1179292\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troup community hosts fish fry and auction to support Cooper Reid<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1179295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/CooperReid-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Troup community hosts fish fry and auction to support Cooper Reid","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 13:59:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/CooperReid-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Troup community hosts fish fry and auction to support Cooper Reid","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1179292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195437,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1179292\/revisions\/1195437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1179295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1179292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1179292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1179292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}