{"id":11276,"date":"2024-10-31T10:07:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/?p=11276"},"modified":"2024-10-31T10:07:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T14:07:20","slug":"firemans-cheer-fund-chili-cook-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/firemans-cheer-fund-chili-cook-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Fireman&#8217;s Cheer Fund Chili Cook-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Fire Department (CFD) is kicking off its fundraising season with the annual Firemen\u2019s Cheer Fund Chili Cook-Off on Friday, November 1. It is your chance to fill your belly and help the cause.<\/p>\n<p>The traditional evening drive-thru at Columbus Fire Department Station #1, 1101 Washington St., is from 5 to 8 p.m. or until the chili is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Cash or check will be accepted as a donation at the Chili Cook-Off for Cheer Fund efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbus Firemen\u2019s Cheer Fund was founded by CFD in 1930 when some caring firemen realized that poor children probably receive few or no gifts at all under a Christmas tree. Almost 100 years later, firefighters and volunteers still collect toys, gifts, and monetary donations, and then deliver the presents to less fortunate kids in mid-December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Columbus Fire Department (CFD) is kicking off its fundraising season with the annual Firemen\u2019s Cheer Fund Chili Cook-Off on Friday, November 1. It is your chance to fill your belly and help the cause. The traditional evening drive-thru at Columbus Fire Department Station #1, 1101 Washington St., is from 5 to 8 p.m. or  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 10:30:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.columbus.in.gov\/fire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}