{"id":8437,"date":"2018-04-27T20:49:08","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T20:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8437"},"modified":"2018-05-01T20:49:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T20:49:19","slug":"helping-others-keep-communties-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=8437","title":{"rendered":"Helping Others Keep Communties Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8438\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0493\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493.jpg 600w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493-405x270.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_0493-60x40.jpg 60w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>by Tony Vindell\/LFN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An example of how communities stay together for a good cause was shown recently in Raymondville where a fundraising was held to help out a first responder whose house burned to the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Bryan Parker and his family suffered a setback in a March 7 fire that took place while nobody was at their home east of Lyford.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost everything,\u201d Parker, a 12-year veteran with Willacy County Emergency Medical Services, said, \u201cbut we are going to build a new place from scratch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, April 11, a fundraiser was held to help the Parker family, drawing people and several organizations from as far as Robstown, Harlingen and from other Rio Grande Valley places.<\/p>\n<p>Among them were Texas Farm Credit, First Community Bank, EMS and dozens of volunteers. They cooked 750 sausages in a BBQ pit installed on a trailer, wrapped them in flour tortillas and served them in a brown bag along with chips and a soda to go.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one of the best things we can do for a good person in the community,\u201d Billy Best, branch manager with TFC Raymondville office, said. \u201cWe are glad to help out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parker\u2019s misfortune came just as he was recovering from an injury he sustained on one of his feet in which he wore a cast and then a boot later on for the last three year for healing purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising lasted for a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>People and business representatives from throughout this area of the Rio Grande Valley came to pick up orders. Some of them handed over checks and money collected from company employees.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held on the bank parking lot and grounds under an atmosphere of camaraderie.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s nice to be loved in such a way,\u201d Parker\u2019s wife, Kim, said. \u201cThanks everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tony Vindell\/LFN An example of how communities stay together for a good cause was shown recently in Raymondville where a fundraising was held to help out a first responder whose house burned to the ground. Bryan Parker and his family suffered a setback in a March 7 fire that took place while nobody was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8438,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8437","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\/8437","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=8437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8439,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8437\/revisions\/8439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}