{"id":35026,"date":"2025-11-02T21:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/35026\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T21:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T21:05:10","slug":"fresno-celebrates-central-valley-honor-flight-with-special-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/35026\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno Celebrates Central Valley Honor Flight With Special Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fresno city officials declared Thursday, Oct. 30 as Central Valley Honor Flight Day, celebrating 12 years of honoring veterans through trips to the nation\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit has flown over 2,200 veterans to Washington, D.C., giving them the chance to visit national war memorials and to meet their congressional representatives.<\/p>\n<p>City leaders and organizers praised the efforts of volunteers, especially Nancy Walker, whose determination helped launch the program and bring this meaningful experience to veterans across the Central Valley.<\/p>\n<p><a data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwfresno.com\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"a2t-link\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"BMW 1280x180\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1761173413_533_Untitled-design-6.png\" alt=\"BMW 1280x180\"   width=\"1280\" height=\"180\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of this would have ever happened without the spark that Nancy Walker lit,\u201d said Central Valley Honor Flight founder Paul Loeffler.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fresno city officials declared Thursday, Oct. 30 as Central Valley Honor Flight Day, celebrating 12 years of honoring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35027,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[24952,112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-35026","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-central-valley-honor-flight","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}