{"id":51205,"date":"2016-11-17T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=51205"},"modified":"2016-11-17T14:49:13","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T19:49:13","slug":"men-of-vision-hosts-first-fundraiser-with-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=51205","title":{"rendered":"Men Of Vision Hosts First Fundraiser With Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Shown at the fundraiser on the front row are: Desmond Stewart, Juan Bautisa, Carol Hardy, Albert Jones, Kelly King, Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward, and Victor Andrew Powley. Shown on the back row are: Lt. Randy Peters, Nate Bautista, Craig Cook, Cameron Law, Ross Anderson, founder of Men of Vision, Khalied Henderson, and Ja&#8217;Marcus Thorpe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Since its inception,<strong> Ross Anderson, <\/strong>founder of Men of Vision has set about helping young men move in a positive direction in their lives. In keeping with this philosophy,<strong> Anderson <\/strong>is constantly exposing the young men to new ideas and new people.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the service organization held a carwash fundraiser with two other organizations, the Tampa Police Department and Children with a Vision, Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser took place on Saturday, November 5<sup>th<\/sup>. It was held at the First Church Of God on Busch Blvd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anderson<\/strong> said, \u201cThis was our first Law Enforcement Carwash and Fundraiser. It was designed to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community it serves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Police <strong>Chief Eric Ward <\/strong>was in attendance at the event, along with <strong>Devonte Robinson. Robinson<\/strong> is an alumnus of Men of Vision and recently joined the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Robinson <\/strong>is credited with organizing the event, <strong>Anderson<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shown at the fundraiser on the front row are: Desmond Stewart, Juan Bautisa, Carol Hardy, Albert Jones, Kelly King, Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward, and Victor Andrew Powley. Shown on the back row are: Lt. Randy Peters, Nate Bautista, Craig Cook, Cameron Law, Ross Anderson, founder of Men of Vision, Khalied Henderson, and Ja&#8217;Marcus Thorpe. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}