{"id":9661,"date":"2013-05-13T10:53:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/?p=9661"},"modified":"2013-05-13T10:53:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T14:53:03","slug":"reds-donates-food-to-hunger-awareness-event-at-challenger-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/2013\/05\/13\/reds-donates-food-to-hunger-awareness-event-at-challenger-middle\/","title":{"rendered":"Red\u2019s donates food to hunger awareness event at Challenger Middle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mary and Bud LoCicero with Dulce Castaneda and Chef Matt Marud<\/p>\n

FORT MYERS, Fla. (May 13, 2013) \u2013 In partnership with CBI Foods, Inc., Red\u2019s Fresh Seafood House & Tavern<\/a> recently donated food to more than 200 attendants at Challenger Middle School\u2019s Hunger Banquet on Tuesday, April 30.<\/p>\n

Inspired by the Act Fast campaign of Oxfam America, Challenger Middle School teachers Kathleen Donelan and Jessica Turner with their students from the Caspian gifted program created the event to highlight the issue of hunger in the world and our community. The event involved the interaction of its more than 200 guests as each of them represented a certain population of the world. Fifteen percent of the guests ate a full meal, and 25 percent ate a medium-sized meal, while and the remaining number of guests was only allowed rice and water.<\/p>\n

The banquet also raised more than $1,000 for four different local organizations including the Cape Coral Caring Center, Community Cooperative Ministries, Inc., Harry Chapin Food Bank and Goodwill Industries of Southwest Florida, Inc.<\/p>\n

Oxfam America is a global organization working to right the wrongs of poverty, hunger and injustice. The organization saves lives, develops long-term solutions to poverty and campaigns for social change. As one of 17 members of the international Oxfam confederation, Oxfam America works with people in more than 90 countries to create lasting solutions.<\/p>\n

Located at 10880 Stringfellow Road on Pine Island, just minutes from Cape Coral, Red\u2019s is open for dinner seven days a week: Sunday through Thursday from \u20284 to 9 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m. An extensive wine menu and full bar are also available. Reservations are not accepted.<\/p>\n

For more information, call 239-283-4412 or visit www.redsfreshseafood.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Red’s owners\u00a0Mary & Bud LoCicero<\/p>\n

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Mary and Bud LoCicero with Challenger teachers Kathleen Donelan and Jessica Turner<\/p>\n

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Challenger student serving guest<\/p>\n

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Guests sharing rice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary and Bud LoCicero with Dulce Castaneda and Chef Matt Marud FORT MYERS, Fla. (May 13, 2013) \u2013 In partnership with CBI Foods, Inc., Red\u2019s Fresh Seafood House & Tavern…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[748,749,194,26,750,751,27,752,753,754,755,344,756,757,758,759,760,195,761,197,255,643,762,763,16,45,764,645,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661"}],"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=9661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcreativepr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}