{"id":920087,"date":"2026-10-04T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920087\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T08:54:12","slug":"south-surrey-shred-event-raises-6400-for-firefighters-charity-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/920087\/","title":{"rendered":"South Surrey shred event raises $6,400 for firefighters\u2019 charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              South Surrey shred event raises $6,400 for firefighters\u2019 charity<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 2:00 pm Saturday, October 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Programs and services for families affected by traumatic wounds received a financial boost at a shredding event held at Semiahmoo Shopping Centre.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of four hours, the fall edition of the fundraiser, held Sept. 26, raised $6,430 for Surrey Fire Fighters\u2019 Charitable Society.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis event\u2026 supports families in our community with money, medical and health care, school programs and those affected by traumatic wounds or injuries,\u201d a news release explained.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/peacearchnews.com\/2026\/04\/14\/south-surrey-shred-event-raises-8k-for-sources-food-bank\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The spring event<\/a>, held in April, raised just shy of $8,000 \u2013 plus 300 pounds of food \u2013 for Sources White Rock-South Surrey Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Funds are raised through donations for the service, which offers secure destruction of private documents.<\/p>\n<p>In all, six tons of paper was shredded Sept. 26 \u2013 saving the equivalent of 36 mature trees, the release adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpecial thanks to the Surrey Firefighters Charitable Society volunteers, Shredwise and the Semiahmoo team who all participated in making this another great event!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shopping centre began the initiative some 15 years ago. To date, more than $116,00 has been raised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Surrey shred event raises $6,400 for firefighters\u2019 charity Published 2:00 pm Saturday, October 3, 2026 Programs and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":920088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-920087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920087","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=920087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}