{"id":16417,"date":"2025-10-22T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16417\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T22:02:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T22:02:06","slug":"concordia-cemetery-hosts-dia-de-los-muertos-fundraiser-this-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16417\/","title":{"rendered":"Concordia Cemetery hosts Dia de los Muertos fundraiser this Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 This weekend, the Concordia Heritage Association is hosting a fundraising event at Concordia Cemetery in El Paso. <\/p>\n<p>Families can learn about Dia de los Muertos and the significance of an ofrenda, with proceeds going toward the upkeep of the historic cemetery. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very important to keep your loved one alive with memories and stories because what they say is you want to be always remembered,&#8221; said Louie Zamorano, a board member of the Concordia Heritage Association. &#8220;And that&#8217;s what Dia de los Muertos is about.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The event will feature vendors, food trucks, and live music. It will take place Saturday from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/san-elizario-high-school-band-advances-to-uil-area-competition-for-first-time-in-a-decade?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/san-elizario-high-school-band-advances-to-uil-area-competition-for-first-time-in-a-decade?SRC=LINK\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">San Elizario High School band advances to UIL area competition for first time in a decade<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 This weekend, the Concordia Heritage Association is hosting a fundraising event at Concordia&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13114,13115,3933,138,140,139,3569,9405,574,10427],"class_list":{"0":"post-16417","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-concordia-cemetery","9":"tag-concordia-heritage-association","10":"tag-dia-de-los-muertos","11":"tag-el-paso","12":"tag-el-paso-headlines","13":"tag-el-paso-news","14":"tag-food-trucks","15":"tag-fundraiser","16":"tag-live-music","17":"tag-ofrenda"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417","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=16417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}