JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center is hosting a unique fundraiser that will test the strength and skill of members of 20-person teams competing to be the first to pull a commercial plane across a finish line.<\/p>\n
Corporate teams and teams of first responders, military units, civic groups, schools, healthcare workers, local business employees and others are invited to participate. Registration for teams is open now<\/a> through October 30.<\/p>\n \u201cThis event is about more than pulling an airplane,\u201d Chandra Manning, CEO of Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center, said. \u201cIt\u2019s about coming together as a community to remove barriers that prevent children and adults from receiving essential speech and hearing services.\u201d <\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The center, a nonprofit that provides evaluations and treatments, will host the event Nov. 14 at Million Air Jacksonville at Cecil Airport on the Westside.<\/p>\n Funds raised will help the center provide speech, language, hearing and literacy services to adults, children and their families – regardless of their ability to pay.<\/p>\n Teams interested in signing up can visit the Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville Speech & Hearing Center is hosting a unique fundraiser that will test the strength…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[20426,28656,77891,77892,26443,6731,24913,694,21376,77893,696,7027,558,25609,17008,77894,3610,77895,77896,20334,36550,1458,2889,116,118,117,77897,2468,20559,54172,28972,77898,15015,10258,5592,724,10255,857,6146,515,77899,28088,77900,1576,1316,8848,1798,107,17491,77901,1265,7982,77902],"class_list":["post-336238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-air","tag-aircraft","tag-airfield","tag-airliner","tag-airplane","tag-airport","tag-aviation","tag-background","tag-big","tag-blank","tag-blue","tag-bottom","tag-business","tag-cargo","tag-cloud","tag-cloudscape","tag-cloudy","tag-cockpit","tag-engine","tag-flight","tag-fly","tag-high","tag-holiday","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-jet","tag-land","tag-landing","tag-machine","tag-modern","tag-off","tag-passenger","tag-plane","tag-power","tag-road","tag-runway","tag-sky","tag-speed","tag-sun","tag-take","tag-takeoff","tag-taking","tag-technology","tag-tourism","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-trip","tag-turbine","tag-vacation","tag-white","tag-wing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336238","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=336238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}