{"id":430658,"date":"2026-10-17T18:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430658\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T18:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T18:48:09","slug":"winter-springs-police-holiday-food-drive-starts-oct-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/430658\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Springs police holiday food drive starts Oct. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 A bag of groceries could help a local family this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The Winter Springs Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winterspringsfl.org\/Calendar.aspx?EID=843&amp;month=7&amp;year=2026&amp;day=4&amp;calType=0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.winterspringsfl.org\/Calendar.aspx?EID=843&amp;month=7&amp;year=2026&amp;day=4&amp;calType=0\">will launch its holiday food drive<\/a> on Tuesday, Oct. 20, inviting residents to donate food for families in need.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Community members can contribute a full paper grocery bag filled with suggested food items or simply share whatever they can.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Donations will be accepted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, at two Winter Springs locations:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Winter Springs City Hall, 1126 E. State Road 434<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Winter Springs Police Department, 300 N. Moss Road<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The food drive runs through Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792262889_266_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WINTER SPRINGS, Fla. \u2014 A bag of groceries could help a local family this holiday season. The Winter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,145,4277,28,13451,169115,139,141,140,144,146,169116,16214],"class_list":["post-430658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-channel-9","tag-community-support","tag-florida","tag-food-donations","tag-holiday-food-drive","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-wftv","tag-wftv-channel-9","tag-winter-springs-city-hall","tag-winter-springs-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430658","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=430658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}