{"id":72501,"date":"2025-12-05T14:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72501\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T14:23:15","slug":"tampa-bay-lightning-community-hero-todd-sherman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/72501\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Lightning Community Hero: Todd Sherman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 At every home game, the Tampa Bay Lightning honor a local person or nonprofit working to make an impact in our community.<\/p>\n<p>During the game on Dec. 4, the Lightning honored a man serving those who bravely served us.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Sherman is the co-founder of The Patriot Fund, an organization that helps veterans returning from service transition to civilian life.<\/p>\n<p>The Patriot Fund offers a variety of services, including service animals, power wheelchairs, mental wellness, job training, and mentorship.<\/p>\n<p>For his efforts, the Lightning awarded Sherman a $50,000 grant to help The Patriot Fund continue its impactful work.<\/p>\n<p>Share Your Story with Deiah<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/DeiahRiley.png\"\/><br \/>Anchor Deiah Riley has called Tampa Bay home for more than 15 years. As a mother of two, she knows the importance of a good education and finding affordable things for families to do. Reach out to Deiah with any education related stories or activities you think she needs to know about.<br \/>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 At every home game, the Tampa Bay Lightning honor a local person or nonprofit working&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4207,34079,9662,4070,41594,2015,135,5910,137,136,3393,208],"class_list":["post-72501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-assistance","tag-community-hero","tag-lightning","tag-mental-health","tag-patriot-fund","tag-support","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-veterans","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72501","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=72501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}