{"id":312096,"date":"2026-06-18T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312096\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T18:59:09","slug":"hope-community-center-to-host-orange-county-candidate-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312096\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope\u00a0CommUnity\u00a0Center to host Orange County candidate forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope\u00a0CommUnity\u00a0Center\u00a0\u2014 South Campus\u00a0will host a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1HnMo67oU2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">forum<\/a>\u00a06-8 p.m. Thursday, giving the Apopka community a chance to hear from candidates running for Orange County Mayor and\u00a0Orange County Commission District 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants from the Hope\u00a0CommUnity\u00a0Center\u2019s youth program will lead and moderate the forum, focusing on topics including \u201chousing affordability, youth opportunity, small business support, public safety, immigrant protections, and essential public services,\u201d according to a center press release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Candidates\u00a0scheduled to speak\u00a0at the forum include three mayoral candidates:\u00a0Mayra Uribe, Stephanie\u00a0Murphy\u00a0and Tiffany Moore Russell;\u00a0and four candidates for Orange County Commission District 2: Marsha Summersill, George Oliver III, Kamia\u00a0Brown\u00a0and Wes Hodge.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Become A Member<\/p>\n<p>The Apopka Chief does not have a paywall, but pavement-pounding journalism is not free. Join your neighbors who make this vital work possible.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"in-article__cta\" class=\"ct-link-button btn--m btn--secondary mdn-support-button\" href=\"https:\/\/theapopkachief.com\/become-a-member?ref=in_article_cta\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">See Member Benefits<\/a><a class=\"ct-link-button btn--m btn--primary\" href=\"https:\/\/theapopkachief.com\/newsletter-signup?ref=in_article_cta\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Join Our Newsletter<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of press time,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voteorangefl.gov\/current-candidates\/candidate-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">commission candidate<\/a>\u00a0Mike Crabb and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/voteorangefl.gov\/current-candidates\/candidate-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mayoral candidate<\/a>\u00a0Chris Messina\u00a0are\u00a0not set to\u00a0participate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hope\u2019s South Campus is\u00a0located\u00a0at 800 S. Hawthorne Ave. in Apopka. The center will offer free food at 6 p.m., followed by the forum at 6:30 p.m., according to a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1HnMo67oU2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Facebook post<\/a>.\u00a0Those who wish to register may\u00a0do so at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hopecommunitycenter.app.neoncrm.com\/np\/clients\/hopecommunitycenter\/eventRegistration.jsp?event=1464&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawSf3wJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFmTjh5UGgzdWl3NWhRQ0Jqc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHvsjuI5DZBezGtj_HxdITGmIJfRdaIhYbJaFiVLtfneJIlfeX7M8rgMFOTuS_aem_7ylypRp6K4g5AErZD7Wxkw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">bit.ly\/2026ocforum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hope\u00a0CommUnity\u00a0Center\u00a0\u2014 South Campus\u00a0will host a\u00a0forum\u00a06-8 p.m. Thursday, giving the Apopka community a chance to hear from candidates running&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[139,141,140],"class_list":["post-312096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312096","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=312096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}