{"id":74952,"date":"2025-12-07T23:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74952\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T23:58:07","slug":"fort-lauderdale-event-brings-holiday-joy-to-people-with-disabilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/74952\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale event brings holiday joy to people with disabilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale event brings holiday joy to people with disabilities <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A special event in Fort Lauderdale brought smiles to the faces of people with disabilities on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Friendship Circle of Greater Fort Lauderdale hosted the free event on Las Olas Boulevard to spread holiday spirit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Young people with disabilities cooked holiday treats from scratch, with a chef and opera singer \u2014 Chef Carlos from \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d \u2014 giving a beaming performance to cheer them on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">At the end of the event, participants received free holiday gifts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Chef Carlos said the day was all about spreading positivity in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey put a lot of love. Today I make 65 chefs to this world. And it\u2019s so happy seeing this face, these faces that are great,\u201d Chef Carlos De Antonis said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Friendship Circle provides more than 70 social programs for children and adults with disabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Byron Tollefson\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/b58c08f2-f400-4245-95df-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Byron Tollefson<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Byron Tollefson joined Local 10 News as a reporter in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM Fort Lauderdale event brings holiday joy to people with disabilities FORT LAUDERDALE,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-74952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74952","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=74952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}