{"id":1182253,"date":"2022-11-25T06:34:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-25T12:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182253"},"modified":"2022-11-26T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T22:49:01","slug":"children-spend-their-thanksgiving-feeding-those-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182253","title":{"rendered":"Children spend their Thanksgiving feeding those in need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1182254\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/salvo1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"101\" height=\"107\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Eight-year-old Romio Hernandez and 11-spentyear-old Aiden Moreno spent their Thanksgiving giving back, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To help the homeless people, maybe they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a house, so we are giving them food to help out, and invite them here, and give them food, serve them, give them drinks so they can feel welcomed,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Aiden. They volunteered at the Tyler Salvation Army serving hot meals to those in need, putting a smile on everyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s face.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Make them feel like they are important and thankful and like give them food because they can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t buy any, they need help with it. So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we are serving them,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Romio. Both boys know the impact they are making on the people they help. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are making them feel like we care for them and like we love them, we care for them for having a good life,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Hernandez.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of people showed up to receive hot meals like turkey, dressing, and pies.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153You know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harder to make a living now, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harder to put gas in the car, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s harder to do everything right now, you know we started with COVID and it just continued on and you know the mission hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t changed we are still serving down here at the Salvation Army 365 days a year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jeremy Walker, Captain, Tyler Salvation Army. The Tyler Salvation Army was able to feed more than 500 people on Thursday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We want to be here for those in need, we hope one day that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not a need, but as long as there is because of the good lord and this community we are able to be the hands and feet of God and be able to serve,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Walker.<\/p>\n<p>Romio and Aiden are leaving everyone with an important message&#8230; \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Always be kind and never be mean,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Moreno.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Eight-year-old Romio Hernandez and 11-spentyear-old Aiden Moreno spent their Thanksgiving giving back, according to our news partner KETK. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153To help the homeless people, maybe they don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a house, so we are giving them food to help out, and invite them here, and give them food, serve them, give them drinks so they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1182253\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Children spend their Thanksgiving feeding those in need<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1182256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/11\/salvo1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Children spend their Thanksgiving feeding those in need","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1182253","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 13:59:19","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\/salvo1.png","fifu_image_alt":"Children spend their Thanksgiving feeding those in need","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182253","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=1182253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1182292,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182253\/revisions\/1182292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1182256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1182253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1182253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1182253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}