{"id":767,"date":"2016-04-13T11:56:46","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T15:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety\/?p=767"},"modified":"2024-01-30T15:51:35","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T20:51:35","slug":"st-petersburg-college-will-host-family-friendly-touch-truck-event-may-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/st-petersburg-college-will-host-family-friendly-touch-truck-event-may-21\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg College will host family-friendly Touch-a-Truck event on May 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spcollege.edu\/Allstate\/\">Allstate Center<\/a> will honor <a href=\"http:\/\/afd.defense.gov\/\">National Armed Forces Day<\/a> with its Second Annual \u201cTouch-a-Truck\u201d event on Saturday, May 21. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Allstate Center, 3200 34<sup>th<\/sup> St. S., St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTouch-a-Truck\u201d is a fun and affordable, family-friendly event where children, teens and parents can see impressive vehicles up close, learn about their functions and the exciting careers associated with those vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Last year more than 300 participants attended this event. This year, with help from community partners, St. Petersburg College expects twice as many attendees.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, participants can have their photo taken with a military service person or veteran, a law enforcement officer or a first responder &#8211; to honor National Armed Forces Day.<\/p>\n<p>Activities will include career and military exploration exhibits, employment opportunities and scholarship information. There will be free food, music and a rock-climbing wall, all provided through contributions from community partners.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about how you can sponsor or participate in \u201cTouch-a-Truck,\u201d please contact Dee Mortellaro at 727-614-7019 or use this survey to RSVP for the event: <a href=\"http:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/survey\/20785\">http:\/\/web.spcollege.edu\/survey\/20785<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>St. Petersburg College\u2019s Allstate Center will honor National Armed Forces Day with its Second Annual \u201cTouch-a-Truck\u201d event on Saturday, May 21. The event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Allstate Center, 3200 34th St. S., St. Petersburg. \u201cTouch-a-Truck\u201d is a fun and affordable, family-friendly event where children, teens and parents &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/st-petersburg-college-will-host-family-friendly-touch-truck-event-may-21\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">St. Petersburg College will host family-friendly Touch-a-Truck event on May 21<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-safety-all"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1941,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.spcollege.edu\/public-safety-policy-legal-studies-educational-information\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}