{"id":31947,"date":"2018-03-01T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/?p=31947"},"modified":"2018-03-01T20:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T02:10:35","slug":"over-250-served-at-benito-firemens-association-supper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/2018\/03\/01\/over-250-served-at-benito-firemens-association-supper\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 250 Served at Benito Firemen’s Association Supper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Submitted by: Leigh Osatchuk |The Annual Benito Firemen’s Association Supper held at the Benito Rec Centre on Sunday Feb. 25, 2018 was a huge success. The volunteer firefighters and their families hosted the Swan Valley and surrounding area for a terrific meal. <\/p>\n

Community members showed their support by either cooking turkeys or donating supper items that was served out buffet style. Numerous desserts delighted everyone with a sweet tooth as well. Several members of volunteer departments from neighboring towns in Manitoba and Saskatchewan were in attendance to show their support. <\/p>\n

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At the end of the evening over 250 people were served allowing the department to generate funds to help purchase a Thermal Imagining Camera. This camera will allow firefighter to quickly find the origin of a structure fire, or see the heat signature of visually obscured victims. They can be used to search for victims outdoors on a cool night, spot smoldering fires inside a wall, or detect overheating electrical wiring.<\/p>\n

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Rounding out the evening was a penny auction with many generous prizes from local businesses in Benito, Swan Valley West and the Town of Swan River. Congratulations to all the winners from the evening, and a huge THANK YOU to all the businesses that contributed to the prosperous evening.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Submitted by: Leigh Osatchuk |The Annual Benito Firemen’s Association Supper held at the Benito Rec Centre on Sunday Feb. 25, 2018 was a huge success. The volunteer firefighters and their families hosted the Swan Valley and surrounding area for a terrific meal. Community members showed their support by either cooking turkeys or donating supper items […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13,16],"class_list":["post-31947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-coverage","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swanriver.valleybiz.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}