{"id":303378,"date":"2026-06-11T01:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303378\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T01:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T01:48:07","slug":"free-summer-meal-program-for-youth-under-way-at-7-cape-coral-parks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/303378\/","title":{"rendered":"Free summer meal program for youth under way at 7 Cape Coral parks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral Parks &amp; Recreation, in collaboration with the School District of Lee County and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kicked off its Summer BreakSpot free meal program on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The number of parkas at which  children and teens ages 18 and under can enjoy no-cost weekday lunches has expanded this year from four to seven park locations across the city.<\/p>\n<p>From June 8 through July 29,  lunches  will be available at the following parks except for June 19 and July 3, dates on which no meals will be served:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Four Freedoms Park, 4818 Tarpon Court: Breakfast: 8:45 \u2013 9:30 a.m. Lunch: Noon \u2013 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Del Prado Linear Park, 1222 N.E. 16th Place: Lunch: 11 a.m. \u2013 noon<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Gator Trails Park, 3612 Garden Blvd.: Lunch: 11 a.m. \u2013 noon<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Paul Sanborn Park, 2310 S.E. 3rd St.: Lunch: 11 a.m. \u2013 noon.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\u00a0Jim Jeffers Park, 2817 S.W. 3rd Lane,: Lunch: 11 a.m. \u2013 noon<\/p>\n<p>Beginning Monday, June 15, free lunches also will be served from Jaycee ParK, 4215 S.E. 20th Place, from  11 a.m. \u2013 noon, Monday through Friday. As with the other parks, no meals will be served on June 19 and July 3.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, seven-day meal kits are available at one location, providing a week\u2019s worth of breakfast and lunch to support families who cannot attend daily sites.<\/p>\n<p>That location is Crystal Lake Park, 4307 N.W. 36th St., (Mondays Only): Seven-day kits: 8 \u2013 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral Parks &amp; Recreation, in collaboration with the School District of Lee County and the U.S. Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-303378","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\/303378","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=303378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}