{"id":465878,"date":"2026-10-14T15:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465878\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T15:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T15:40:15","slug":"lubbock-area-united-way-to-host-annual-united-we-read-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/465878\/","title":{"rendered":"Lubbock Area United Way to host annual United We Read event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Area United Way will host its ninth annual United We Read campaign on Thursday, Oct. 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">More than 400 volunteers will read to more 3,700 students across the South Plains, celebrating literacy and the power of community. This includes Lubbock ISD, Frenship, Lubbock-Cooper, Shallowater, Abernathy, New Deal, Idalou, Roosevelt and Southland ISDs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This year\u2019s featured book is Say Something! by Peter H. Reynolds, an inspiring story that encourages children to discover the many ways they can make their voices heard and make a difference in the world. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Each participating student will receive a copy of the book, along with a reading guide to accompany the story and United Way\u2019s service guide connecting families to local community resources.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; Lubbock Area United Way will host its ninth annual United We Read campaign on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465879,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[158510,168,7296,170,158509,158511,169,158508],"class_list":["post-465878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-anita-carmona-harrison-elementary","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-area-united-way","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-isd-literacy-event","tag-lubbock-isd-second-grade-reading","tag-lubbock-news","tag-united-we-read-lubbock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465878","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=465878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}