{"id":391881,"date":"2026-09-06T04:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391881\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T04:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T04:12:08","slug":"serve-those-who-served-avow-veteran-volunteer-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/391881\/","title":{"rendered":"Serve Those Who Served: Avow Veteran Volunteer Bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serve Those Who Served: Avow Veteran Volunteer Bootcamp: Because every Veteran deserves the chance to hear \u201cthank you\u201d one more time. Avow, Southwest Florida\u2019s original nonprofit hospice and a five-star We Honor Veterans partner, invites men and women who served in the U.S. Armed Forces to become Veteran volunteers. Participants will learn to conduct meaningful Veteran honor ceremonies, lead Coffee with Vets gatherings and provide companionship visits to Veteran hospice patients. Roughly a quarter of Avow patients are Veterans, and the connection between those who have worn the uniform cannot be replicated. 9 a.m. to noon Thursday, Sept. 24, The Collaboratory, 2031 Jackson St., Fort Myers, FL 33901. Free. Contact Volunteer Services, 239-261-4404 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridaweekly.com\/events\/serve-those-who-served-avow-veteran-volunteer-bootcamp\/volunteer@avowcares.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">volunteer@avowcares.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Serve Those Who Served: Avow Veteran Volunteer Bootcamp: Because every Veteran deserves the chance to hear \u201cthank you\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-391881","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\/391881","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=391881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}