{"id":42295,"date":"2025-11-23T10:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42295\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T10:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T10:52:11","slug":"gio-strong-benefit-draws-crowds-and-community-support-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42295\/","title":{"rendered":"Gio Strong Benefit Draws Crowds and Community Support | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giovani Newsuan is a ten year old heart patient from Erie County with a lot of faith and determination.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"gio.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1361\" height=\"659\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s home after being hospitalized nearly three months in Pittsburgh.<\/p>\n<p>Family and friends hosted a Gio Strong benefit that packed Perry Hi-Way Hose Company.<\/p>\n<p>It was a 21 and over event raising money to help lower the costs of Gio&#8217;s medical care.<\/p>\n<p>There were auctions, raffles, music and more.<\/p>\n<p>Just before school started, an infection attacked Gio&#8217;s heart. He had two surgeries at Children&#8217;s Hospital in Pittsburgh, so the support was special.<\/p>\n<p>Gio&#8217;s latest heart surgeries come on top of several others, because he was born with a rare congenital heart defect. The Gio Strong benefit started at 2:00 p.m. and went until 9:00 pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giovani Newsuan is a ten year old heart patient from Erie County with a lot of faith and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[9147,2347,136,138,137,25288,25289,25290,25291,9193],"class_list":{"0":"post-42295","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-benefit","9":"tag-community-support","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-gio","14":"tag-gio-strong","15":"tag-heart-patient","16":"tag-helping","17":"tag-hospitality-industry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42295","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=42295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}