{"id":53477,"date":"2025-11-20T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53477\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T01:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T01:13:10","slug":"kiwanis-club-of-greater-pine-island-to-present-chili-trees-2025-dec-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/53477\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island to present \u2018Chili & Trees 2025\u2019 Dec. 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island will hold its\u00a0first-ever Chili & Trees event Saturday, Dec. 13, from 4:30-7:30 p.m., at Street Eatz & Ale.<\/p>\n

This new holiday celebration brings together two local favorites \u2014 delicious chili and festive Christmas trees \u2014 for an evening of food, fun and community spirit. Attendees can\u00a0enter their best chili recipe\u00a0to compete for the title of\u00a0Best Island Chili, with winners chosen by popular vote. <\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0each Pine Island Elemen-tary Classroom\u00a0will showcase a beautifully decorated Christmas tree, available for attendees to\u00a0bid on in a festive holiday auction.<\/p>\n

The night will also feature\u00a0live music, great food and family-friendly fun, all benefiting the\u00a0Greater Pine Island Kiwanis Club\u00a0and the\u00a0Pine Island Elementary PTO\u00a0\u2014 organizations dedicated to supporting local children, education, and community programs.<\/p>\n

The event is open to the public \u2014 come hungry, come festive, and come support our island\u2019s kids!\u00a0<\/p>\n

For more information about participating in the chili competition or supporting the event, please reach out to email\u00a0Reid:\u00a0sea.bokeelia@gmail.com<\/a>; Rachael:\u00a0PTOatPIE@gmail.com<\/a>\u00a0or Dave:\u00a0dave@islandbrew.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Those interested in joining or learning more are invited to visit\u00a0www.pineislandkiwanis.org<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0or attend the club\u2019s weekly breakfast meeting, held every Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. at the VFW Post 4353 at 8150 Stringfellow Road in St. James City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kiwanis Club of Greater Pine Island will hold its\u00a0first-ever Chili & Trees event Saturday, Dec. 13, from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-53477","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\/53477","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=53477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}