{"id":604695,"date":"2017-04-09T12:57:11","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T17:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=604695"},"modified":"2017-04-10T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-10T21:00:01","slug":"first-responders-recognized-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=604695","title":{"rendered":"First Responders Recognized in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/North-Tenneha-Church-of-Christ.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/North-Tenneha-Church-of-Christ-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-604696\" \/><\/a>TYLER &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s North Tenneha Church of Christ hosted &#8220;First Responders Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Saturday &#8212; a chance for residents to meet, greet, and build relationships with public safety personnel.  Evangelist Kennon Olison Sr. says the event was a big success.  He commented, &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to see the community. I was very surprised by how many non-members of the faith-based community&#8230;actually showed up and were a part of it.  So I think it was very good &#8212; I think it was a very good start.  I think there&#8217;s more to do, but there was a very good start.&#8221; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Olison was also impressed with the first responders&#8217; participation. He told KTBB, &#8220;They reached across the aisle&#8230;to the people and said, &#8216;Hey&#8230;we&#8217;re here because we care.'&#8221;  First responders answered questions as kids explored equipment from a fire engine to an EMS helicopter. Among those on hand: Sheriff Larry Smith, Police Chief Jimmy Toler, Fire Chief David Coble, ETMC EMS Director Neal Franklin, Constable Henry Jackson, and City Councilmembers Ed Moore and Darryl Bowdre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Tyler&#8217;s North Tenneha Church of Christ hosted &#8220;First Responders Day\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Saturday &#8212; a chance for residents to meet, greet, and build relationships with public safety personnel. Evangelist Kennon Olison Sr. says the event was a big success. He commented, &#8220;I&#8217;m very happy to see the community. I was very surprised by how many &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=604695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Responders Recognized in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":604696,"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-604695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 23:35:22","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\/604695","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=604695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":604697,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604695\/revisions\/604697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/604696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=604695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=604695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=604695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}