{"id":9883,"date":"2025-07-14T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9883\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T20:02:08","slug":"benefit-lunch-for-local-baby-with-rare-genetic-disorder-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/9883\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit Lunch for Local Baby with Rare Genetic Disorder | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bledsoe.rescuesquad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bledsoe County Rescue Squad<\/a> will host a benefit lunch in Pikeville for a local infant diagnosed with a rare genetic disorder.<\/p>\n<p>John Lee Anthony Bickford, son of Katie Peterson of Dunlap, suffers from <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/31339275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">infantile-onset Pompe disease<\/a> (IOPD). Babies with this condition require enzyme treatments every two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In an effort to raise money for his treatment and medical costs, the family will be holding a benefit lunch and some raffles with donated items on Saturday, August 2.<\/p>\n<p>For $12, you can get a plate of smoked pulled pork, baked beans, potato salad, slaw, peach cobbler, and a drink between 11:00am and 5:00pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Let\u2019s have a good time, everyone is welcome!&#8221; Peterson said in a Facebook post about the event. &#8220;Thank you!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"John Lee Anthony Bickford benefit\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1247\" height=\"1663\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6874f87867d5d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"267\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bledsoe County Rescue Squad will host a benefit lunch in Pikeville for a local infant diagnosed with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[9781,7543,7542,9780,9783,200,9777,97,7546,9782,5714,7545,686,9778,9779,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-9883","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-genetics","8":"tag-autosomal-recessive-disorders","9":"tag-clinical-medicine","10":"tag-diseases-and-disorders","11":"tag-genetic-diseases-and-disorders","12":"tag-genetic-disorders","13":"tag-genetics","14":"tag-glycogen-storage-disease-type-ii","15":"tag-health","16":"tag-human-diseases-and-disorders","17":"tag-inborn-errors-of-metabolism","18":"tag-medical-genetics","19":"tag-medical-specialties","20":"tag-medicine","21":"tag-pediatrics","22":"tag-rare-diseases","23":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}