{"id":54555,"date":"2025-11-20T20:03:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54555\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T20:03:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T20:03:25","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-community-hero-tim-connolly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/54555\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Community Hero: Tim Connolly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 At every home game, the Tampa Bay Lightning honors a local person or nonprofit working to make an impact in our community.<\/p>\n<p>At the game on November 18, the Lightning honored a man who embodies the spirit of giving back.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Connolly, a dedicated volunteer with Daystar Life, is a godsend.<\/p>\n<p>For families facing financial hardship, the nonprofit Daystar Life is a lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>Connolly helps coordinate a variety of services for families in Pinellas County, from food to financial services. Thanks to volunteers like him, Daystar Life helped more than 23,000 neighbors in need last year. They\u2019re on track to help even more this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Lightning awarded Connolly a $50,000 grant to help Daystar Life continue its mission.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly all Lightning games will be broadcast live on The Spot \u2013 Tampa Bay 66 (WXPX-TV) and will also be <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/lightning\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">streamed here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Spot Tampa Bay 66 is the official broadcast partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Spot and Tampa Bay 28 are both owned by EW Scripps.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s become a health hazard&#8217;: Treasure Island targets overgrown lawns after Helene<\/p>\n<p>No matter how much he\u2019d like to forget about Hurricane Helene, Scott Baker still sees reminders on all sides of his Treasure Island home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It\u2019s become a health hazard&#8217;: Treasure Island targets overgrown lawns after Helene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 At every home game, the Tampa Bay Lightning honors a local person or nonprofit working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34079,34080,9662,1718,1157,110,135,5910,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-54555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-community-hero","tag-daystar-life","tag-lightning","tag-nonprofit","tag-pinellas","tag-sports","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54555","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=54555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}