{"id":315000,"date":"2026-08-06T06:48:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315000\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T06:48:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:48:31","slug":"colombian-independence-day-queens-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315000\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Independence Day &#8211; Queens Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-08-05\/12p1.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207889\" class=\"wp-image-207889 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12p1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Borough President Dono\u00advan Richards Jr. hosted the Colombian Independ\u00adence Day celebration.\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-207889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Borough President Dono\u00advan Richards Jr. hosted the Colombian Independ\u00adence Day celebration.<\/p>\n<p>On July 22, 2026, Bor\u00adough President Donovan Richards Jr., along with the Colombian Consulate of New York, hosted a lively and colorful Colombian Independ\u00adence Day celebration at Borough Hall. Among those honored for their valued service to the community were Andres Var\u00adgas, president of the North Queens Home\u00adowners <\/p>\n<p>Civic Association (NQHCA). Pic\u00adtured with the Borough President and Mr. Vargas are members of the NQHCA. The other honorees were Alfonso Lopes, Mar\u00adgarita Gaitan, Daniel Castellanos, and Kevin Jusino. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/2026-08-05\/12p2.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-207893\" class=\"wp-image-207893 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/12p2-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"Andres Vargas, president of the NQHCA, was hon\u00adored.\" width=\"300\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-207893\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andres Vargas, president of the NQHCA, was hon\u00adored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Borough President Dono\u00advan Richards Jr. hosted the Colombian Independ\u00adence Day celebration. On July 22, 2026, Bor\u00adough President Donovan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-315000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}