{"id":39770,"date":"2016-04-22T22:34:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T02:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=39770"},"modified":"2016-04-22T22:34:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-23T02:34:58","slug":"here-we-go-again-no-lehigh-acres-parade-but-we-will-have-float-in-the-edison-parade-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/04\/here-we-go-again-no-lehigh-acres-parade-but-we-will-have-float-in-the-edison-parade-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Here We Go Again &#8212; NO Lehigh Acres Parade But We Will Have Float In The Edison Parade Instead."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-39771\" title=\"The Check\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Check-300x162.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Check-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/The-Check.png 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The Greater Lehigh Acres Chamber of Commerce received a $5,000 donation from Lehigh Regional Medical Center it will go a long way to helping the community improve its image, said Chamber Chairman Mike Burgers, he went to say, Wow! That&#8217;s a surprise. We didn&#8217;t expect that.<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh Acres did not have a local parade in 2016 due to the cost of the parade, $5000.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of promoting local businesses on Homestead Rd during our annual parade the Greater Lehigh Acres Chamber of Commerce will spend the money on one single float a pay to enter it into the Edison Festival of Light Parade in Ft Myers.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Bell, CEO of Lehigh Regional, said they want to be part of the community. It&#8217;s not just about taking, it&#8217;s about giving.<\/p>\n<p>They hope the positive publicity will boost spirits and the local economy.<\/p>\n<p>We can grow this community, come together again as a good organization and just make this a better community, Bell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Lehigh Acres Chamber of Commerce received a $5,000 donation from Lehigh Regional Medical Center it will go a long way to helping the community improve its image, said&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":39771,"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\/39770"}],"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=39770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}