{"id":343952,"date":"2026-07-17T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343952\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T22:17:08","slug":"united-way-broward-surprises-senior-with-special-volunteer-project-to-celebrate-104th-birthday-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343952\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way Broward surprises senior with special volunteer project to celebrate 104th birthday &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; United Way Broward hosted a special celebration for a South Florida senior\u2019s incredible milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jean Colker thought she was making a normal visit to United Way Broward on the way to lunch in Fort Lauderdale, Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was met with a surprise, as volunteers went all out to host a special event in her honor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Colker, who was celebrating her 104th birthday, was treated to a special volunteer service project, which saw more than 200 food bags assembled to be distributed to local seniors, veterans and families experiencing food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volunteers also made sure to give Colker her special moment, singing for her birthday and cutting a cake to commemorate the milestone day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very happy. I have wonderful friends,\u201d said Colker.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the food bags included gifts that were donated by Colker\u2019s family, offering comfort and brightening up someone\u2019s day.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; United Way Broward hosted a special celebration for a South Florida senior\u2019s incredible&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-343952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343952","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=343952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}