{"id":22618,"date":"2015-12-13T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/light-flights-over-juneau\/"},"modified":"2015-12-13T09:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-13T17:00:43","slug":"light-flights-over-juneau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/light-flights-over-juneau\/","title":{"rendered":"Light Flights over Juneau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal Helicopters and the Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions Club have scheduled their Light Flights fundraiser to take place Friday, Dec. 18, between 4:30-7:30 p.m. at Gate 1 in the North Wing of the Airport Terminal Building, lower level.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau residents are invited to head to the airport for the annual helicopter ride that will take passengers over the Mendenhall Valley to view Christmas lights. \u201cThis is a magical time for people of all ages,\u201d said Norton.<\/p>\n<p>The flight begins at the Juneau Airport and goes toward the Mendenhall Glacier, and back to the airport. All flights are weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets cost $30 per person.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year we get asked if we will take reservations,\u201d Mike Norton, president of the Mendenhall Flying Lions, said. \u201cThis event is on a first-come basis. Once we ticket our quota, we will close ticket sales for the evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three helicopters are provided by Coastal Helicopters and all Coastal personnel (pilots, mechanics and admin) donate their time for these flights. Petro Marine donates the fuel for this event.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from this fundraising event go towards the Children\u2019s Tumor Foundation and Lions club projects.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Coastal Helicopters at 789-5600 or Mike Norton at 957-1697.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coastal Helicopters and the Juneau Mendenhall Flying Lions Club have scheduled their Light Flights fundraiser to take place Friday, Dec. 18, between 4:30-7:30 p.m. at Gate 1 in the North Wing of the Airport Terminal Building, lower level. Juneau residents are invited to head to the airport for the annual helicopter ride that will take [&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":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-22618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618","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=22618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22618"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}