{"id":374646,"date":"2026-06-25T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374646\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T17:16:09","slug":"ace-hardware-in-northeast-fresno-uses-donations-to-give-box-fans-to-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/374646\/","title":{"rendered":"Ace Hardware in northeast Fresno uses donations to give box fans to community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, June 25, 2026 4:36PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Ace Hardware in NE Fresno uses donations to give box fans to community\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local hardware store is taking action, helping to make a big &#8220;cooling&#8221; difference this summer for families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Over the past several weeks, the Ace Hardware at Champlain and Shepherd in northeast Fresno has asked customers if they would like to &#8220;round up&#8221; when they make a purchase to support neighbors in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Those small donations added up to $1,400, which led to the purchase of 84 box fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Wednesday, the money and the fans were donated to the Salvation Army, which will handle the distribution.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Salvation Army plans to distribute the fans to seniors, low-income families and anyone else who needs help to stay cool during the hottest months of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, June 25, 2026 4:36PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A local hardware store is taking action, helping to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374647,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[151848,32494,151847,112,114,113,362,41145,294],"class_list":["post-374646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-151848","tag-ace-hardware","tag-box-fans","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-northeast-fresno","tag-salvation-army","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374646","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=374646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}