{"id":284618,"date":"2026-09-12T17:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284618\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T17:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T17:50:07","slug":"billy-blanks-returns-home-for-wellness-conference-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284618\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Blanks Returns Home for Wellness Conference | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Erie native Billy Blanks returned home this weekend to share his message of health, fitness and purpose with the community.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"billy blanks.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Blanks taught a high-energy Tae Bo fitness class at Ascend Gym on Saturday morning, giving children and community members the opportunity to take part. Tae Bo is a popular workout program that combines martial arts and boxing.<\/p>\n<p>The fitness class was followed by a presentation at St. John&#8217;s Lutheran Church called \u201cPower and Purpose,\u201d which was part of a wellness conference.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Erie Mayor Daria Devlin presented Blanks with her first key to the city, recognizing his accomplishments and his connection to his hometown. The mayor said the recognition marked a major milestone worth celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>City councilmen, Andre Horton also announced a proposal to rename West Third Street \u201cBilly Blanks Avenue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blanks also spent time supporting local businesses during his visit. On Friday night, he stopped by Cafe 7-10, which is co-owned by his sister and niece, to show his support for their business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Erie native Billy Blanks returned home this weekend to share his message of health, fitness and purpose with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[118656,117435,97157,524,1525,136,138,137,11466,38321,117436,19747],"class_list":["post-284618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-ascend-gym","tag-billy-blanks","tag-cafe-7-10","tag-community","tag-daria-devlin","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fitness","tag-key-to-the-city","tag-tae-bo","tag-wellness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}