{"id":401959,"date":"2026-08-09T17:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401959\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T17:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T17:34:07","slug":"free-hydration-kits-given-away-to-outdoor-workers-in-dallas-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401959\/","title":{"rendered":"Free hydration kits given away to outdoor workers in Dallas \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of its &#8220;Hydration Kits for Unsung Heroes&#8221; effort, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markcubanheroescenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center<\/a> staff has compiled over 500 hydration kits to give out for free.<\/p>\n<p>These kits are available to outdoor workers and first responders, including mail carriers, delivery drivers, lawn crews, construction workers, and public employees. Registration is required, and recipients must present a work ID badge upon receipt.<\/p>\n<p>The kits include cooling towels, neck fans, bottled water, and insulated coolers; they are available Monday-Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to training for athletics and life skills, the center also offers resources to help prevent evictions and pay utility bills.<\/p>\n<p>The center is supported by the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/markcubanai.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Cuban Foundation<\/a>, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/forty.one\/us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dirk Nowitzki Foundation,<\/a> and the Heroes Foundation. The Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center is located in Dallas&#8217;s Cedar Crest neighborhood at 1800 Bonnie View Road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As part of its &#8220;Hydration Kits for Unsung Heroes&#8221; effort, the Mark Cuban Heroes Basketball Center staff has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,4544,4975],"class_list":["post-401959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-extreme-weather","tag-mark-cuban"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959","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=401959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}