{"id":256252,"date":"2026-05-03T05:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256252\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T05:31:24","slug":"north-central-florida-celebrates-childrens-table-founders-97th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/256252\/","title":{"rendered":"North Central Florida celebrates Children\u2019s Table founder\u2019s 97th birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BRONSON, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The community came together to celebrate a man who has helped hundreds of thousands of people across North Central Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents visited the Bronson Elementary School cafeteria on Saturday to say happy 97th birthday to Bill Brown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He and his wife Verna started the Children\u2019s Table, a nonprofit food bank. What began as the two sharing vegetables from their garden grew to a massive operation, which helps feed more than 110,000 people annually.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cMister Bill\u201d can still be found helping out at the Children\u2019s Table every Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRONSON, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; The community came together to celebrate a man who has helped hundreds of thousands&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111279,111280,111283,28,30,29,111281,111282],"class_list":["post-256252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bronson-florida-food-bank","tag-childrens-table-nonprofit","tag-community-food-assistance","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-mister-bill-97th-birthday","tag-north-central-florida-hunger-relief"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256252","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=256252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}