{"id":38850,"date":"2013-08-30T09:27:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=38850"},"modified":"2013-08-30T09:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T13:27:07","slug":"club-1600-hosts-back-to-school-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/club-1600-hosts-back-to-school-event","title":{"rendered":"Club 1600 Hosts Back-To-School Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/08\/club-1600-hosts-back-to-school-event-38850.html\/club\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-38851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-38851\" title=\"club\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/club.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/club.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/club-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/club-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Dozens of students turned out for the second annual Neil Percentie Back to School event hosted by Toastmasters Club 1600 on Saturday, August 24, in Union Village.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A model citizen, Percentie always assisted under-privileged school children in the area with much-needed school supplies,&#8221; says club president, Franklyn Winder, speaking of the man from whom the event takes its name.<\/p>\n<p>A known PLP activist, Percentie possessed a bright future prior to his tragic shooting death back on September 7, 2011.<\/p>\n<p>For a second year, Club 1600 handed out school supplies and provided free hair cuts from the Mobile Barber Shop during its back to school event.<\/p>\n<p>The speech club also offered the youths free pony rides, hot dogs and cakes.<\/p>\n<p>Under a learning tent Toastmasters provided the students with tips on how to have a successful school year.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">By: Tosheena Robinson-Blair<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens of students turned out for the 2nd Annual Neil Percentie Back-to-School event hosted by Toastmasters Club 1600 in Union Village.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}