{"id":14342,"date":"2016-11-04T08:04:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/lions-club-barbecue-fundraiser-set-for-saturday\/"},"modified":"2016-11-04T08:04:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T15:04:51","slug":"lions-club-barbecue-fundraiser-set-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/lions-club-barbecue-fundraiser-set-for-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Lions Club barbecue fundraiser set for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mendenhall Flying Lions Club will hold its annual barbecue at McGivney\u2019s Sports Bar and Grill in the Mendenhall Mall on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The lunch \u2014 which will include pork ribs, slaw, beans and beer from Alaskan Brewing Company \u2014 costs $15 per plate. Barbecue fans can also spend $40 for a rack of ribs. Proceeds will benefit the American Diabetes Association. The Lions Club will serve food until it runs out or until 5 p.m., whichever comes first.<\/p>\n<p>During the past 20 years, the club has raised nearly $160,000 for the ADA. Those funds have helped send Southeast Alaskan youth to diabetes camp, conduct health fairs and distribute diabetes educational materials throughout the region.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Tom Dawson at 321-3474 or Soapy Lingle at 723-4121.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mendenhall Flying Lions Club will hold its annual barbecue at McGivney\u2019s <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/\">Sports<\/a> Bar and Grill in the Mendenhall Mall on Saturday. The lunch \u2014 which will include pork ribs, slaw, beans and beer from Alaskan Brewing Company \u2014 costs $15 per plate. Barbecue fans can also spend $40 for a rack of ribs. Proceeds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-14342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}