{"id":273788,"date":"2026-05-16T21:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273788\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T21:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T21:58:09","slug":"miami-gardens-food-giveaway-marks-americas-upcoming-250th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273788\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens food giveaway marks America\u2019s upcoming 250th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Miami Gardens was the place to be on Saturday as hundreds of families lined up for a major food giveaway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Good Neighbor Day America partnered with VOUS Church\u2019s Miami Gardens campus, which served as one of the flagship sites for the nationwide event. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">To celebrate America\u2019s 250th anniversary, organizers aimed to complete 250 million acts of kindness in a single day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Here in South Florida, this distribution was one of those acts. Cars wrapped around the parking lot as volunteers handed out bags filled with food to families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis is actually our third food distribution so far this year, and we\u2019re looking to be able to provide food even more frequently,\u201d said Katharine Canals, a pastor and director of outreach for VOUS Church. \u201cRight now, it\u2019s a part of our monthly \u2018I Love My City\u2019 outreach, but hopefully in the future, we will be able to open up weekly food distributions from our location.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More than 300 families left with food for their tables.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Magdala Louissaint\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/37f8699f-d0f0-420f-8dfa-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Magdala Louissaint<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Magdala Louissaint joined WPLG in August 2025 and is thrilled to call South Florida home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 16, 2026 at 5:41 PM MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. \u2014 Miami Gardens was the place to be on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-273788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273788","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=273788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}