{"id":825336,"date":"2026-07-25T14:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825336\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T14:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:09:09","slug":"annual-wheels-for-wishes-event-roars-to-life-today-on-kelsey-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/825336\/","title":{"rendered":"Annual Wheels for Wishes Event Roars to Life Today on Kelsey Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/leon-house-wheels-for-wishes-fundraiser-car-show.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Annual Wheels for Wishes Event Roars to Life Today on Kelsey Drive\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leon House (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>It has grown into the largest car show in Newfoundland and Labrador, and it is all for a cause. <\/p>\n<p>The 7th annual Wheels for Wishes event is taking over Bristol Court on Kelsey Drive today from 10-4. <\/p>\n<p>Organizer Leon House says there will be hundreds of vehicles, unique vendors, and a family-friendly party atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteer-run show raises tens of thousands of dollars for local children\u2019s charities, including the Candlelighters. <\/p>\n<p>House says there will be lots of food choices as well, including tacos, popcorn, hotdogs and hamburgers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have vendors and dealers from all over the city who have bottles of water and gifts to give away; there will be two insurance companies there and just a lot of fun things,\u201d said House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Leon House (VOCM News) It has grown into the largest car show in Newfoundland and Labrador, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[45,49,48,269876,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-825336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}