{"id":10179,"date":"2019-05-03T17:10:31","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:10:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10179"},"modified":"2019-05-03T17:10:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T17:10:31","slug":"el-pollo-loco-goes-crazy-for-conjunto-halcon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10179","title":{"rendered":"El Pollo Loco Goes Crazy for Conjunto Halcon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10180\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10180\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10180\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/001.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/001.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/001-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/001-405x252.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Conjunto Halcon program director Juan Longoria, right, stands by students Jose Luis Medina, Rick Disgapari and JJ Atkinson inside El Pollo Loco. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brownsville\u2019s El Pollo Loco goes crazy about Conjunto Halcon.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant held a fundraising in which 50 percent of its sales went to Los Fresnos school district conjunto program.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising was in effect from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, April, 23.<\/p>\n<p>Parents, friends and staff with the school district showed support for the good cause showing a flyer to let the restaurant employees know why they were there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are here to show support,\u201d Melizza Garcia, a teacher at Los Fresnos United, said. \u201cThe school has a good program and we hope it continues like that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cristina Cavazos, also a United teacher, said Conjunto Halcon has done a super job and she wishes them the best for years to come.<\/p>\n<p>Juan Longoria, the program director, said the program\u2019s booster club organized the fundraising.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey hold several each year,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this is the first time they chose El Pollo Loco.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Longoria said the proceeds from the fundraising will go to help to defray the cost of their end of the year trip.<\/p>\n<p>He said the 100 or so students in the program will go to New Braunfels and San Antonio for a two-day trip in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Brownsville\u2019s El Pollo Loco goes crazy about Conjunto Halcon. The restaurant held a fundraising in which 50 percent of its sales went to Los Fresnos school district conjunto program. The fundraising was in effect from 6-9 p.m. on Tuesday, April, 23. Parents, friends and staff with the school district showed support for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10187,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10179\/revisions\/10187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}