{"id":399932,"date":"2026-08-07T04:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T04:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T04:26:09","slug":"city-council-district-1-hosting-back-to-school-bash-with-free-backpacks-at-edison-high-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/399932\/","title":{"rendered":"City Council District 1 hosting back-to-school bash with free backpacks at Edison High!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO &#8211; City Council District 1 is set to hand out free backpacks and school supplies as part of its annual Back-to-School Bash aimed at helping families prepare for the 2026-2027 school year.<\/p>\n<p>District 1 Councilwoman Dr. Sukh Kaur and the District 1 Office will host the fourth annual event from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 8, at Edison High School, 701 Santa Monica St., 78212.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the bash will provide free backpacks, school supplies, resources and services with support from community organizations and nonprofits, including AAA, Garver USA, H-E-B, Methodist Hospital, the San Antonio Apartment Association and SAWS.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Sen. Jos\u00e9 Menendez and Bexar County Commissioner Justin Rodriguez are also scheduled to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Councilmember Kaur will be available for media interviews between 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. during the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO &#8211; City Council District 1 is set to hand out free backpacks and school supplies as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-399932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399932","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=399932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}