{"id":268810,"date":"2026-05-13T01:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268810\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T01:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T01:46:07","slug":"wink-listens-returns-to-cape-coral-for-face-to-face-community-talks-wink-listens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268810\/","title":{"rendered":"WINK Listens returns to Cape Coral for face-to-face community talks | WINK Listens"},"content":{"rendered":"

CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014\u00a0WINK News brought its listening tour back to Cape Coral, giving viewers a chance to sit down with the team and talk about what matters most to them.<\/p>\n

The event covered everything from growth and traffic concerns to hurricane recovery and insurance questions.<\/p>\n

WINK News anchor Jillian Haggerty was there and said events like this help the station better understand the people and communities they cover.<\/p>\n

“I just love everybody,” said Chuck Mueller, a resident who attended.<\/p>\n

Mueller said he watches everything and thinks the listening event is a great idea.<\/p>\n

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“Just being able to raise whenever they want to is the main thing because once it gets more than our checks what do we do?” said Christine Chabot, a resident.<\/p>\n

Chabot turned to WINK for help after living in North Fort Myers for more than 11 years.<\/p>\n

“If we have to move we want to because it’s our decision not because we are forced,” Chabot said.<\/p>\n

The event brought viewers face-to-face with the reporters and anchors they see every day.<\/p>\n

It was a chance for people to share their concerns, ask questions and talk about the issues impacting their lives.<\/p>\n

Several people said they appreciated the opportunity to connect one-on-one with the WINK News team.<\/p>\n

“Just to come out and meet everybody and I got a chance to meet Russ and he’s great. I just want to come out and see everything and meet everybody,” Mueller said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. (WINK)\u2014\u00a0WINK News brought its listening tour back to Cape Coral, giving viewers a chance to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268811,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,115411],"class_list":["post-268810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-insurance-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268810","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=268810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}