{"id":543661,"date":"2016-10-05T14:36:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-05T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=543661"},"modified":"2016-10-06T14:36:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T19:36:07","slug":"we-back-our-law-enforcement-campaign-fund-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=543661","title":{"rendered":"We Back Our Law Enforcement Campaign Fund Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/10\/body-armor-vests2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2016\/10\/body-armor-vests2-150x150.jpeg\" alt=\"body-armor-vests2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-543678\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8211; The campaign to raise funds for body armor vests for the Tyler Police Department and Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is nearing the half way mark. With the $10,000 contribution Wednesday from Southside Bank, the drive has now gathered $85,000 toward a goal of $204,000. State senator Kevin Eltife said the money comes from 89 gifts from $10.00 and up. And he added, &#8220;With additional pledges still outstanding, we expect to make a big announcement next week.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Individuals and businesses may contribute to the &#8220;We Back Our Law Enforcement Fund&#8221; set up at the East Texas Communities Foundation. Go online to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etcf.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.etcf.org<\/a> or to the link <a href=\"https:\/\/www.securedserver.net\/etcf\/lawenforcement.php\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.securedserver.net\/etcf\/lawenforcement.php<\/a> to contribute using a credit card. <\/p>\n<p>In addition, gifts by check should be made payable to &#8220;East Texas Communities Foundation&#8221; with &#8220;We Back Our Law Enforcement&#8221; included in the memo line.  Checks may be mailed to ETCF, 315 N. Broadway, Suite 210, Tyler, Texas 75702 or delivered in person to the same address, 8:00am to 5:00pm Monday &#8211; Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8211; The campaign to raise funds for body armor vests for the Tyler Police Department and Smith County Sheriff&#8217;s Department is nearing the half way mark. With the $10,000 contribution Wednesday from Southside Bank, the drive has now gathered $85,000 toward a goal of $204,000. State senator Kevin Eltife said the money comes from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=543661\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">We Back Our Law Enforcement Campaign Fund Growing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":543678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-17 18:28:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543661","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=543661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543690,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543661\/revisions\/543690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/543678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=543661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=543661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=543661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}