{"id":702,"date":"2014-06-19T16:35:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-19T16:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buildingbridgescharlottesville.org\/blog\/a-wonderful-party-and-a-touching-moment"},"modified":"2026-01-29T11:58:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T16:58:33","slug":"a-wonderful-party-and-a-touching-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/a-wonderful-party-and-a-touching-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"A wonderful party and a touching moment!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our 3rd Annual Midsummer Nights Dream Party was a great success, and <strong>we thank all our guests<\/strong> for joining us on that lovely day and for all the generous contributions. <br><br>Perfect weather, delicious food, great music with <span class=\"caps\">ACME<\/span> Swing Mnfg. Co., and of course our favorite motivational speaker and comedian Brett Leake ensured a fun and joyful evening. <br>The most touching moment of the evening was the unveiling of the memorial plaque in honor of Fred Drake. Fred was a wonderful and committed member of our Board, and instrumental in our fundraising efforts, i.e. grant writing and creating new connections for us in the community. He sadly passed away 2 years ago and has remained since then in our hearts and minds. One of Fred\u2019s passions was gardening, and that inspired us to create <strong>The Drake Friendship Garden<\/strong> at the Belmont home. While we opened the garden at our Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream event, his wife Diana unveiled the plaque that leaves him forever alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our 3rd Annual Midsummer Nights Dream Party was a great success, and <strong>we thank all our guests<\/strong> for joining us on that lovely day and for all the generous contributions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6829,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/6829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebridgeline.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}