{"id":331825,"date":"2026-07-07T14:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331825\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:05:15","slug":"special-pops-to-serve-the-community-during-fundraising-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331825\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Pops to Serve the Community During Fundraising Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>July 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/7726-Special Pops Lelulos 2026.jpg\" style=\"float: right;\" alt=\"Photo of 2025 Special Pops Fundraiser at Lelulo's Pizza\" width=\"432\" height=\"284\"\/>Participants from the City&#8217;s Freida B. Smith Special Populations Center (Special Pops) will\u00a0serve pizza to the community during a fundraiser\u00a0Wednesday, July 15.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">Special Pops participants will be at Lelulo&#8217;s Pizza, 3123 Chiquita Blvd. S, from 11\u00a0a.m. to 8 p.m., serving\u00a0pizza to support the 6th Annual VIP Staff Day.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">VIP Staff Day is an event held in partnership with Lelulo&#8217;s Pizza and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/myspecialpops.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Guardian Angels for Special Populations<\/a>\u00a0(Guardian Angels), a\u00a0volunteer, non-profit organization that supports Special Pops&#8217; programs.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\">This year&#8217;s event will include silent auctions and raffles. A percentage of food sales and all other proceeds will go to Guardian Angels to help support Special Pops in continuing its mission to promote independence through exposure, education, experience, and encouragement in a safe, caring environment. Programs include life skills development, adult day training, and after-school, evening, and special events.<\/p>\n<p data-ogsc=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecoral.gov\/Documents\/Departments\/Office of Communications\/pressreleases\/7726-Staff VIP day.pdf?t=202607070843010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to download a flyer of the Special Pops 6th Annual VIP Staff Day<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"July 6, 2026 Participants from the City&#8217;s Freida B. Smith Special Populations Center (Special Pops) will\u00a0serve pizza to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-331825","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\/331825","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=331825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}