{"id":8299,"date":"2018-04-13T17:50:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8299"},"modified":"2018-04-13T17:50:44","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T17:50:44","slug":"loaves-fishes-looks-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8299","title":{"rendered":"Loaves &#038; Fishes Looks for Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/loavesandfishes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8295\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/loavesandfishes.jpg\" alt=\"loavesandfishes\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/loavesandfishes.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/loavesandfishes-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/loavesandfishes-405x248.jpg 405w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Loaves &amp; Fishes, a non-profit organization that provides several services to the needy including free meals, looks to add other communities for support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Bill Reagan, executive director with the non-profit organization, said LF was created in 1991 in Harlingen and it has been serving Raymondville since February 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">An average of 10,000 meals are served a month in Harlingen as residents there get three meals a day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Raymondville, an average of 280 free meals are served each month.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">LF expanded into Willacy County two years ago first serving meals twice a week. A year ago, it went to four days a week and it now serves meals seven days a week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe prepare and take about 50 meals a day to Raymondville,\u201d Reagan said. \u201cWe serve about 40 to 45 meals from Monday through Friday and fewer on weekends.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">He said LF has a budget of a quarter of a million dollars to run its kitchen. The money comes from donations, grants and other sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">How about Los Fresnos?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe like going to other communities,\u201d he said, \u201cbut only if someone in those communities invite us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">For more information about LF, please call 956-423-1014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN Loaves &amp; Fishes, a non-profit organization that provides several services to the needy including free meals, looks to add other communities for support. Bill Reagan, executive director with the non-profit organization, said LF was created in 1991 in Harlingen and it has been serving Raymondville since February 2016. An average of 10,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299","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=8299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8300,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8299\/revisions\/8300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}