{"id":1313813,"date":"2024-04-14T07:32:11","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T12:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1313813"},"modified":"2024-04-16T06:39:45","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T11:39:45","slug":"junior-league-of-tyler-gives-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1313813","title":{"rendered":"Junior League of Tyler gives back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/tyler-fire-dept-truck-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-387178\" \/>The Junior League of Tyler hosted their annual Touch a Truck event to raise money for local nonprofits and provide a fun, educational experience for the whole family. According to a statement, the Junior League of Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event hosted a variety of public service vehicles, heavy equipment pieces and representatives of several industries for children to see and touch.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We are very excited to see further expansion of the event this year due to increased interest by sponsors and exhibitors. This event has already raised over $30,000 to give back to our community through the Junior League of Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grant process,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Sarah Lang, Touch a Truck chair, said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We cannot wait to see everything come together and kids of all ages learn through this unique hands-on experience.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>According to the Junior League, every dollar earned from the event will be invested back into the community through their grant process to help local nonprofit organizations achieve their goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Junior League of Tyler hosted their annual Touch a Truck event to raise money for local nonprofits and provide a fun, educational experience for the whole family. According to a statement, the Junior League of Tyler\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s event hosted a variety of public service vehicles, heavy equipment pieces and representatives of several industries &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1313813\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Junior League of Tyler gives back<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1313815,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/tyler-fire-dept-truck-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Junior League of Tyler gives back","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1313813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:04:14","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\/2015\/08\/tyler-fire-dept-truck-2-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Junior League of Tyler gives back","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313813","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\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1313813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313816,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1313813\/revisions\/1313816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1313815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1313813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1313813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1313813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}