{"id":372415,"date":"2026-08-15T17:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T17:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T17:50:29","slug":"connecting-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/372415\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting the deaf and hard of hearing community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA (Bloom) \u2013 In our \u201cWindow to the Weekend\u201d sponsored by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bestwindowsflorida.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Renewal by Andersen of Tampa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amberfreemantv\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/amberfreemantv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Amber Freeman,<\/a> host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bloom_tv\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bloom_tv\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloom<\/a>, chatted with Whole Community Readiness Coordinator for Pinellas County Emergency Management, Jessica McCracken and Director of Family Center on Deafness, John Miller, to discuss the Pinellas County Deaf Fest. ASL Interpreter for Family Center on Deafness, Tara MacTigue, also attended.<\/p>\n<p>Deaf Fest 2026 is a free community event designed to connect the deaf and hard of hearing community with local organizations, agencies and valuable resources.\u00a0 Attendees can learn about services, programs, employment opportunities, health and wellness, education, emergency preparedness, and much more.<\/p>\n<p>The event will take place Saturday, August 15, 2026 from 9:00am\u201312:00pm at Lealman Exchange Community Center in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1600831464801926\/?rdid=przOLaOWdrX5AjLM&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1Kbx273oMX#\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1600831464801926\/?rdid=przOLaOWdrX5AjLM&amp;share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2F1Kbx273oMX#\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have an event in the Tampa Bay area you\u2019d like to feature on \u201cWindow to the Weekend\u201d email us at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/bloom-tampa-bay\/connecting-the-deaf-and-hard-of-hearing-community\/amp\/mailto:Bloom@wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloom@wfla.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA (Bloom) \u2013 In our \u201cWindow to the Weekend\u201d sponsored by\u00a0Renewal by Andersen of Tampa, Amber Freeman, host&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-372415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372415","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=372415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}