{"id":174950,"date":"2026-03-02T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174950\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T13:21:05","slug":"around-town-pasco-news-briefs-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/174950\/","title":{"rendered":"Around town: Pasco news briefs | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                Veterans home receives 14 emergency generators from local contractor<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA \u2014 Liberty Manor for Veterans, a nonprofit that provides transitional housing for homeless veterans, received 14 emergency generators courtesy of a Land O&#8217; Lakes construction company.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Franklin, president of St. Paul&#8217;s Construction and Roofing Inc., donated the generators to ensure residents have power during emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty Manor, a 501(c)(3) organization based in Tampa, serves disabled and honorably discharged veterans who have experienced homelessness, providing supported housing and programs designed to help them achieve self-sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Those interested in supporting Liberty Manor can contact Connie Lindsay at 813-900-9422 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/libertymanor.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">libertymanor.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Free Medicare counseling sessions set for March at area libraries<\/p>\n<p>Trained volunteers with SHINE, a free program offered by the Florida Department of Elder Affairs and the Area Agency on Aging of Pasco-Pinellas, will hold Medicare informational sessions at libraries in Pasco and Pinellas counties throughout March.<\/p>\n<p>SHINE, which stands for Serving Health Insurance Needs of Elders, provides free, unbiased and confidential one-on-one counseling on Medicare, Medicaid and health insurance questions. SHINE counselors do not sell insurance products.<\/p>\n<p>Sessions are scheduled at the following locations:<\/p>\n<p>Pasco County<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10 a.m. March 5, New Port Richey Library, 5939 Main St., New Port Richey. Call 727-853-1279.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10:30 a.m. March 19, New River Library, 34043 State Road 54, Wesley Chapel. Call 813-788-6375.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10 a.m. March 21, Land O&#8217; Lakes Library, 2818 Collier Parkway, Land O&#8217; Lakes. Call 813-929-1214.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 10:30 a.m. March 26, Hugh Embry Library, 14215 Fourth St., Dade City. Call 352-567-3576.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Veterans home receives 14 emergency generators from local contractor TAMPA \u2014 Liberty Manor for Veterans, a nonprofit that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[82824,82825,135,137,136],"class_list":{"0":"post-174950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-liberty-manor-for-veterans","9":"tag-st-paul","10":"tag-tampa","11":"tag-tampa-headlines","12":"tag-tampa-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950","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=174950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}