{"id":294384,"date":"2026-06-03T13:29:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294384\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:29:08","slug":"vision-ace-hardway-thanked-for-fundraiser-for-pine-island-food-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294384\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision ACE Hardway thanked for fundraiser for Pine Island Food Pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Krueger, left, Vision ACE Hardware store manager; Diane Gleason, treasurer, Pine Island Food Pantry; and Becky Patterson, Vision ACE Hardware inventory manager.<br \/>\n PHOTO PROVIDED<\/p>\n<p>To the editor:<\/p>\n<p>A big shout-out to Vision ACE Hardware for hosting a barbecue fundraiser on May 23 benefiting the Pine Island Food Pantry<\/p>\n<p>ACE employees worked diligently to set up and barbecue and their hard work truly showed. The event was a tremendous success, raising $500 to support local families in need this summer.<\/p>\n<p>A very special thank you to Chris Krueger, store manager, and Becky Patterson, inventory manager, for leading and coordinating the event.<\/p>\n<p>To everyone who helped and everyone who contributed-we are so grateful. Thank you for helping ensure that no one goes hungry on Greater Pine Island!<\/p>\n<p>Pine Island Food Pantry staff<\/p>\n<p>Bokeelia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Krueger, left, Vision ACE Hardware store manager; Diane Gleason, treasurer, Pine Island Food Pantry; and Becky Patterson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294385,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-294384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294384","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=294384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}