{"id":13478,"date":"2015-12-10T15:34:32","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=13478"},"modified":"2015-12-10T15:34:32","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T20:34:32","slug":"fort-myers-police-foundation-to-host-appreciation-dinner-for-fmpd-sponsorships-and-tables-now-available-for-the-men-women-in-blue-of-the-year-gala","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2015\/12\/10\/fort-myers-police-foundation-to-host-appreciation-dinner-for-fmpd-sponsorships-and-tables-now-available-for-the-men-women-in-blue-of-the-year-gala\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Police Foundation to host appreciation dinner for FMPD; Sponsorships and tables now available for the Men &#038; Women in Blue of the Year Gala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FMPF-logo.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13479\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/FMPF-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"FMPF logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"139\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Men-Women-in-Blue-logo.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13480\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Men-Women-in-Blue-logo-300x300.png\" alt=\"Men &amp; Women in Blue logo\" width=\"250\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2015) \u2013 The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">Fort Myers Police Foundation<\/a> will host the \u201cMen &amp; Women in Blue of the Year\u201d appreciation dinner on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016 at Colonial Country Club, located at\u00a09181 Independence Way\u00a0in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The appreciation dinner honors the outstanding public service of the brightest stars of the Fort Myers Police Department and other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. FMPD retirements for 2015 will also be recognized. More than 60 officers will be honored during the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese men and women put themselves at risk each and every day to make our community safe, and we think they deserve an evening of recognition and thanks,\u201d said Larry Romano, president of the Fort Myers Police Foundation. \u201cWe hope the community will join us in thanking these public servants in blue for all they do for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Individual tickets are $100, and tables of eight are $750. Sponsorships from $100 to $10,000 are also available.<\/p>\n<p>All funds raised by the Police Foundation go toward purchasing life-saving equipment for the FMPD.<\/p>\n<p>Established in 2014, the Fort Myers Police Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose goal is to help build a stronger bond between the community and its local police department. Since its formation, the Police Foundation has raised $150,000 that has gone toward purchasing medical kits for patrol cars, ballistic shields, electronic ear protection for shooting ranges and a firearms training simulator.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org<\/a>, or call Paul Fratello at 610-470-0049.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 10, 2015) \u2013 The Fort Myers Police Foundation will host the \u201cMen &amp; Women in Blue of the Year\u201d appreciation dinner on Saturday, Jan&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[5912,5913,5903,1152,29,1366,3569,1053,5904,5905,1831,4868,1154,5906,5907,5908,5909,16,1046,1072,716,672,366,5910,1159,4875,5911],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}