{"id":15240,"date":"2017-12-04T16:54:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=15240"},"modified":"2017-12-20T16:55:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T16:55:13","slug":"fort-myers-police-foundation-to-host-appreciation-dinner-for-fmpd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2017\/12\/04\/fort-myers-police-foundation-to-host-appreciation-dinner-for-fmpd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Myers Police Foundation to host appreciation dinner for FMPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sponsorships and tables now available for the Men &amp; Women in Blue of the Year Gala<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2017) \u2013 The Fort Myers Police Foundation will host the \u201cMen &amp; Women in Blue of the Year\u201d appreciation dinner on Saturday, January 20, 2018 at Colonial Country Club, located at\u00a09181 Independence Way\u00a0in Fort Myers.\u00a0<!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15241\" src=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MWIB-300x140.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"140\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MWIB-300x140.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MWIB-768x358.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MWIB-1024x477.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/MWIB.jpg 1849w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The appreciation dinner honors the outstanding public service of the brightest stars of the Fort Myers Police Department\u00a0and other local, state and federal law enforcement agencies.\u00a0FMPD retirements for 2017 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 Keith Healy, 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>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>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. All funds raised by the Police Foundation go toward purchasing life-saving equipment for the Fort Myers Police Department and the community it serves. Since its formation in 2014, the Police Foundation has raised more than $150,000 that has gone toward purchasing medical kits for patrol cars, ballistic shields, electronic ear protection for shooting ranges, a Meggitt FATS<sup>\u00ae<\/sup>\u00a0L7 compact training simulator, a K-9 and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more information,\u00a0visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org\/\">www.fortmyerspolicefoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sponsorships and tables now available for the Men &amp; Women in Blue of the Year Gala &nbsp; FORT MYERS, Fla. (Dec. 4, 2017) \u2013 The Fort Myers Police Foundation will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240"}],"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=15240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}