{"id":77805,"date":"2025-12-02T05:38:21","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77805\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:38:21","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:38:21","slug":"rep-jim-costa-launches-annual-holiday-cards-for-vets-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/77805\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jim Costa Launches Annual Holiday Cards for Vets Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO, Calif. &#8211; U.S. Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) invites all community members of California\u2019s 21st Congressional District to participate in \u201cHoliday Cards for Vets\u201d program. During these challenging times, everyone can use some love and kindness, through heartfelt and homemade cards; especially our Veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Residents are encouraged to participate by dropping off or mailing homemade cards to Costa\u2019s offices in Fresno and Visalia. Deadline for submission is Wednesday, December 10th, 2025, at 5:00 P.M.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the holidays, Costa\u2019s office will deliver the submitted cards to local veterans at the Fresno VA Hospital, Fresno Vets Home, Coffee with a Veteran in Visalia, and our local Posts.<\/p>\n<p>HOW TO PARTICIPATE:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Grab your art supplies and write a heartfelt note to a local Veteran. \u00a0No glitter or sealed envelopes.Participating schools and organizations with a large volume of holiday cards for Veterans may contact our office to arrange a pick-up. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>MAILOR DROP OFF CARDS:<\/p>\n<p>Fresno District Office: 2440 Tulare Street, Suite 420, Fresno, CA 93721 Visalia District Office: 425 E. Oak Ave, Suite 202, Visalia, CA 93291<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. &#8211; U.S. Congressman Jim Costa (CA-21) invites all community members of California\u2019s 21st Congressional District to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-77805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805","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=77805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}