{"id":17017,"date":"2012-12-24T13:43:43","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=17017"},"modified":"2012-12-24T13:43:43","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T18:43:43","slug":"christmas-shines-brighter-in-bravo-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/12\/christmas-shines-brighter-in-bravo-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shines Brighter<br> in Bravo District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/christmas-shines-brighter-in-bravo-district\/christmas_child\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17018\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17018\" title=\"Christmas_child\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Christmas_child.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a>A little more than a week ago, the Fort Myers Fitness 24\/7 toy drive received a devastating blow when thieves broke into the gym and stole Christmas gifts that had been collected for children.\u00a0 To fight back against the Grinch, many residents and businesses, along with deputies from the Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Bravo District, came together as a community and collected enough toys to provide Christmas gifts to children in need at two Lehigh\u00a0Acres schools&#8230;Harns Marsh Middle and G. Weaver Hipps Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office Bravo District deputies also had the opportunity to adopt seven Lehigh Acres families for the holidays by providing Christmas gifts and food with the hope of giving them a little Christmas cheer.<\/p>\n<p>The Bravo District Community Policing Unit also contributed to the Christmas cheer by purchasing board games and outdoor play equipment for the enjoyment of the more than 60 youngsters at the Boys and Girls Club on Lehigh Acres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little more than a week ago, the Fort Myers Fitness 24\/7 toy drive received a devastating blow when thieves broke into the gym and stole Christmas gifts that had&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":17018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}