{"id":84898,"date":"2025-12-16T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:35:10","slug":"jea-volunteers-assemble-and-inspect-over-100-bicycles-at-salvation-army-angel-tree-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/84898\/","title":{"rendered":"JEA volunteers assemble and inspect over 100 bicycles at Salvation Army Angel Tree \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 A group of JEA volunteers from the Northside Generating Station has come together to assemble and inspect over 100 donated bicycles at the Salvation Army Angel Tree. The group, known as the \u201cBike Brigade,\u201d has been assembling bikes in Jacksonville since 2018 to make sure kids have a safe first ride on Christmas morning.<\/p>\n

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JEA volunteers assemble and inspect over 100 bikes for Salvation Army Angel Tree (JEA)<\/p>\n

\u201cI still remember when I first got my bike as a kid. Every time I put one of these together, I get a little of that feeling back. And what could be better than that?\u201d says Michael Hinson, a project cost specialist at JEA who has led the \u201cBike Brigade\u201d for the past seven years.<\/p>\n

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JEA volunteers assemble and inspect over 100 bikes for Salvation Army Angel Tree (JEA)<\/p>\n

JEA says the group noticed that a lot of new bikes that were donated weren\u2019t completely assembled, had missing parts, or had flat tires. Since then, the Bike Brigade has built hundreds of bikes every year for the holiday season. JEA adds that more than 80 employees will be volunteering more than 320 hours at the Salvation Army Angel Tree through December 17.<\/p>\n

The Salvation Army says its Angel Tree program helps provide Christmas gifts to hundreds of thousands of children across the country. <\/p>\n

You can learn more about the Salvation Army\u2019s Brighten the Holidays event on the Salvation Army website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can find more about JEA\u2019s community impact on the utility\u2019s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla \u2014 A group of JEA volunteers from the Northside Generating Station has come together to assemble…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,29012,46481,794,28,116,118,117,501,795,349,17453],"class_list":{"0":"post-84898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-angel-tree","10":"tag-bike-brigade","11":"tag-duval","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-jacksonville","14":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","15":"tag-jacksonville-news","16":"tag-jea","17":"tag-ne-florida","18":"tag-northeast-florida","19":"tag-salvation-army"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84898","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=84898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}