{"id":195294,"date":"2026-03-08T01:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195294\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T01:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T01:54:27","slug":"el-paso-public-libraries-celebrate-mascot-leas-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/195294\/","title":{"rendered":"El Paso Public Libraries celebrate mascot Lea&#8217;s birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The El Paso Public Libraries hosted a birthday party for mascot Lea at the Clardy Fox Branch\u00a0Library Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Families from across the borderland attended the celebration and even some other familiar mascots like PayDirt Pete, Clifford from PBS, Amigo Man wished Lea a happy birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1450997\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-07-183155.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450997\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLea represents the heart of our\u00a0library\u00a0system: curiosity, learning, and community,\u201d said Public Libraries Director Norma Martinez. \u201cThis celebration is a wonderful way to bring families together and create joyful memories at their neighborhood\u00a0library.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1450995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-07-183026.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450995\"\/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"1450996\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-07-182950.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1450996\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The event was free to the public and attendees were able to party games, win prizes, take photos with the mascots and more.<\/p>\n<p>For more events hosted by the El Paso Public Libraries, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ElPasoLibrary.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/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 PASO, Texas (KVIA)- The El Paso Public Libraries hosted a birthday party for mascot Lea at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195295,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-195294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195294","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=195294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}