{"id":10571,"date":"2019-07-25T19:54:36","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10571"},"modified":"2019-07-25T19:54:36","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:54:36","slug":"los-fresnos-rotary-club-holds-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=10571","title":{"rendered":"Los Fresnos Rotary Club Holds Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10567\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10567\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10567\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/082.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/082.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/082-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/082-405x223.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-10567\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lions Club members and volunteers at the fundraiser. Photo: Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A fundraiser for Los Fresnos Rotary Club was held recently and it produced a good response from the public.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 500 plates consisting of a half barbecue chicken, beans, rice and potato salad were prepared and sold for $8 each.<\/p>\n<p>Club members and volunteers were on hand from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on the parking lot at Zarsky\u2019s Lumber.<\/p>\n<p>The tasty and juicy chicken was cooked by 1848 BBQ, a restaurant located on Avalon Drive, off Palm Boulevard in Brownsville. The trimmings were prepared by La Cocina de Conchis of McAllen.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Magallanes, a Rotarian, said the fundraiser netted about $3,000 in profits and the money will go into the club\u2019s administrative fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy for the way it turned out,\u201d he said about the club\u2019s first fundraiser. \u201cWe had great support from the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hector Cruz of San Benito and Dora Garcia of Los Fresnos, who stopped by the stand to pick up plates, said they were glad to help out.<\/p>\n<p>The Rotary Club was chartered in April of this year and it now has 25 members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN A fundraiser for Los Fresnos Rotary Club was held recently and it produced a good response from the public. Up to 500 plates consisting of a half barbecue chicken, beans, rice and potato salad were prepared and sold for $8 each. Club members and volunteers were on hand from 11 a.m. to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10571","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\/10571","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=10571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10572,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10571\/revisions\/10572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}