{"id":476842,"date":"2026-10-26T05:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476842\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T05:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T05:00:07","slug":"eva-longoria-marks-20-years-of-evas-heroes-at-celebrity-casino-night-for-special-needs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/476842\/","title":{"rendered":"Eva Longoria marks 20 years of Eva\u2019s Heroes at Celebrity Casino Night for special needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Hollywood actress Eva Longoria and friends walked the red carpet on Saturday in celebration of 20 years dedicated to supporting individuals with special needs. <\/p>\n<p>Local non-profit organization Eva&#8217;s Heroes celebrated their 20th annual Celebrity Casino Night fundraiser at The Ralston on East Hildebrand Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>The event features casino-style gaming and live auction with proceeds going towards the organization&#8217;s mission to empower youth and adults with intellectual special needs. <\/p>\n<p>Longoria said Eva&#8217;s Heroes, founded in 2006 with Christiane Perkins-Garcia, was inspired by her mother&#8217;s work as a special education teacher and her sister. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re just a big community of of people who want to see kids and adults with intellectual disabilities have a place to go where they can learn and grow and be loved and be seen,&#8221; Longoria said. <\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about the organization and its community programs <a href=\"https:\/\/evasheroes.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2014 Hollywood actress Eva Longoria and friends walked the red carpet on Saturday in celebration of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-476842","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\/476842","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=476842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}