{"id":129697,"date":"2026-01-20T00:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129697\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T00:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T00:38:08","slug":"el-pasoans-fighting-hunger-honoring-mlk-with-day-of-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/129697\/","title":{"rendered":"El Pasoans Fighting Hunger honoring MLK with day of service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is hosting a special\u00a0day of service\u00a0today, by inviting\u00a0community members to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s legacy through service.<\/p>\n<p>For one day only, the food bank will open on a Monday to welcome volunteers who want to make a meaningful difference.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Renard Johnson will also be volunteering and speaking, along with EPFH Interim CEO Kris Yagel.<\/p>\n<p>With more than one-third of El Pasoans experiencing food insecurity, the help of volunteers ensure that families have food on their plates everyday.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers will help sort, pack, and prepare food for distribution from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. on Jan. 19 across El Paso, Hudspeth, and Culberson counties.<\/p>\n<p>EPFH is expecting 100 volunteers to help and is accepting walk-ins. <\/p>\n<p>BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n<p>KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/station\/2022\/07\/15\/community-guidelines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to share a story idea, please submit it <a href=\"https:\/\/kvia.com\/share\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"El Pasoans Fighting Hunger is hosting a special\u00a0day of service\u00a0today, by inviting\u00a0community members to honor Dr. Martin Luther&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-129697","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}