{"id":30996,"date":"2023-10-25T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hopes-kitchen-has-fed-residents-for-23-years-and-looks-to-a-fundraiser-for-support\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:32:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:32:32","slug":"hopes-kitchen-has-fed-residents-for-23-years-and-looks-to-a-fundraiser-for-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/hopes-kitchen-has-fed-residents-for-23-years-and-looks-to-a-fundraiser-for-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Hope\u2019s Kitchen has fed residents for 23 years, and looks to a fundraiser for support"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3314fdcf-2dfa-4e6f-b3c6-92027a2d507d&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1178\" alt=\"Larry Gessner discusses Hope\u2019s Kitchen while giving a tour of the storage pantry in the kitchen. (Sam Green\/Journal file photo)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Larry Gessner discusses Hope\u2019s Kitchen while giving a tour of the storage pantry in the kitchen. (Sam Green\/Journal file photo)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">du1-i-syn<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>After Hope\u2019s Kitchen\u2019s continuous support to help feed residents over the past 23 years, the First United Methodist Church of Cortez will host a fundraiser to bolster the organization\u2019s free meal program through community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser will take place Nov. 11 from 4-6 p.m. The First United Methodist Church of Cortez is located at 515 N. Park St.<\/p>\n<p>According to a news release, run solely by volunteers and donations, Hope\u2019s Kitchen has served more than 12,000 meals every year for a diverse population of people from \u201call walks of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For two hours, the donation based fundraiser includes a supper consisting of chili, soup and cornbread.<\/p>\n<p>On top of nourishing bellies, a dessert auction will take place and music by Zeke Isaacs and friends will be played while a silent auction (with stained glass, quilts and art) occurs.<\/p>\n<p>Children\u2019s activities will be supplied at the fundraiser\u2019s Kids\u2019 Corner.<\/p>\n<p>Pastor Jean Schwien invites residents to attend the fundraiser in order to continue supporting Hope\u2019s Kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Methodist Church of Cortez will soon host a fundraiser for Hope\u2019s Kitchen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-30996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81279,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30996\/revisions\/81279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30996"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=30996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}