{"id":135288,"date":"2026-01-28T18:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135288\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T18:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T18:58:46","slug":"doc-fords-raises-7725-for-captains-for-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135288\/","title":{"rendered":"Doc Ford\u2019s raises $7,725 for Captains For Clean Water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HM Restaurant Group, which manages Doc Ford\u2019s Rum Bar &amp; Grille, donated $7,725 to Captains For Clean Water in honor of Storm Smart, supporting the nonprofit organization\u2019s mission of raising awareness and driving change to improve Florida\u2019s water quality.<br \/>The money was raised $1 at a time from the sale of Send it South cocktails in 2025. The specialty drink program has raised a cumulative $11,072 since its introduction in April 2024.<br \/>\u201cWe are proud to support Captains For Clean Water and to make this donation in recognition of Storm Smart,\u201d said Joe Harrity, a partner with HM Restaurant Group. \u201cThrough their support of Captains For Clean Water, we are honored to designate these proceeds in their name. We\u2019re also grateful to our guests who ordered the drink knowing their purchase would help protect Florida\u2019s waterways.\u201d<br \/>Sold at Doc Ford\u2019s four locations on the St. Peterburg Pier and Jungle Terrace in St. Petersburg and Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach in Southwest Florida, Send it South is a refreshing mix of mango and silver rums, blue Cura\u00e7ao, pineapple and soda water.<br \/>A grassroots nonprofit, Captains For Clean Water was founded in 2016 by fishing guides concerned about the impact of Florida\u2019s water management practices wreaking havoc on estuaries\u2019 unique plant and animal communities. The organization opposes the current-day procedure of discharging fresh water from Lake Okeechobee to the Caloosahatchee and St. Lucie rivers \u2013 a practice linked to blue-green algae and red tide plaguing South Florida\u2019s waterways, threating human health and crippling its economy. Send It South references the group\u2019s campaign that advocates a return to the natural southerly flow of critical freshwater through the Everglades and into Florida Bay, a process now impeded by dams, dikes and ditches built over a century ago. For more information, visit captainsforcleanwater.org.<br \/>As a locally owned company, HM Restaurant Group sponsors a number of projects benefiting local communities. Its successful Hospital Drinks program donates $1 from select specialty cocktails at Doc Ford\u2019s to John Hopkins All Children\u2019s Hospital in St. Petersburg and Golisano Children\u2019s Hospital of Southwest Florida. The program has raised over $140,309 since its inception. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HM Restaurant Group, which manages Doc Ford\u2019s Rum Bar &amp; Grille, donated $7,725 to Captains For Clean Water&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-135288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}