{"id":405178,"date":"2026-08-13T04:38:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405178\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T04:38:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T04:38:25","slug":"east-texas-tonight-tyler-city-council-member-on-service-life-before-city-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/405178\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: Tyler City Council member on service, life before City Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know a woman whose life has been dedicated to the service of others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Most people in Tyler know Petra Hawkins as the City\u2019s Mayor Pro Tem and District 2 Council Member. Others know her as a longtime nurse, a REALTOR\u00ae, a small business owner, or simply \u201cGiGi.\u201d But long before public office, Petra built a life around serving others\u2014whether that meant caring for patients in an emergency room, helping a family buy their first home, or volunteering in her community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tonight, we\u2019re stepping away from City Hall to get to know the woman behind the title. We\u2019ll talk about her East Texas roots, the moments that shaped her, what keeps her grounded, and why serving others has always been at the center of her life.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Tonight on East Texas Tonight, we\u2019re getting to know a woman whose life has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":405179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[141930,141932,133173,141931,27,29,28,141929,141933,141928],"class_list":["post-405178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-district-2-council-member","tag-east-texas-now","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-petra-hawkins","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-tyler-city-council-member","tag-tyler-city-hall","tag-tyler-mayor-pro-tem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405178","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=405178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/405179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}