{"id":77684,"date":"2025-12-09T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77684\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:50:10","slug":"you-can-donate-books-bears-to-help-kids-have-a-merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/77684\/","title":{"rendered":"You can donate books, bears to help kids have a merry Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/QV622M5ZNRBGBEH5QNL6BHKSJY.jpg\"  width=\"4284\" height=\"2409\"\/>Courtesy of Hooters of South Florida (Courtesy of Hooters of South Florida) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Tomorrow you can give a child in need a gift they\u2019d love to hug or cozy up to. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Weston and Fort Lauderdale Beach Place Hooters restaurants are hosting their annual teddy bear and book drive. Guests are encouraged to bring new teddy bears and books or make a $10 monetary donation. For added convenience, the Hooters locations will have books and bears available for purchase. All funds raised will go towards South Florida Hooters efforts of providing books and bears to the children for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOur team at Hooters enjoys our annual tradition of helping local children and putting a smile on their faces when they receive the books and bears for the holidays,\u201d said Hooters of South Florida Director of Marketing Kristi Quarles. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Together with the Carey Family Foundation, and former Miami Dolphins player, Vernon Carey, representatives from the Weston and Fort Lauderdale Hooters locations will deliver the gifts collected to various organizations serving children, including the Jack &amp; Jill Center in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe are fortunate to have amazing community partners including Hooters of South Florida,\u201d said Vernon Carey, founder of the Carey Family Foundation. \u201cThe books and bears collected at Hooters will help many deserving local kids. Promoting education and reading in South Florida is important to us.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hooters of Beach Place is located at 17 South Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard, Suite 305, in Fort Lauderdale. Hooters of Weston is located at 2282 Weston Road in Weston.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For more information on the Carey Family Foundation and its Books &amp; Bears program, visit CareyFamilyFoundation.org.<\/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=\"Mayte Padron\" 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\/ff163d72-f807-4d1c-9f44-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Mayte Padron<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Mayte Padron Cordones is an Emmy-award winning journalist and the director of WPLG\u2019s Community Relations Department, overseeing the station\u2019s outreach initiatives to benefit and strengthen the South Florida community. She joined the station in 2001. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCourtesy of Hooters of South Florida (Courtesy of Hooters of South Florida)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-77684","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\/77684","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=77684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}