{"id":20401,"date":"2021-12-20T00:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saj.pachecostudios.com?p=20401"},"modified":"2021-12-20T00:02:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-20T00:02:02","slug":"boca-raton-airport-authority-helps-spread-holiday-cheer-with-5th-annual-toys-for-tots-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/florida\/boca-raton-airport-authority-helps-spread-holiday-cheer-with-5th-annual-toys-for-tots-drive\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Boca Raton Airport Authority Helps Spread Holiday Cheer with 5th Annual Toys for Tots Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the fifth year in a row, the Boca Raton Airport\nAuthority, along with Airport Tenants including Atlantic Aviation, Boca\nAircraft Maintenance, Boomers, Cinemark Palace, Fairfield Inn & Suites by\nMarriot, Privaira, Reliable Jet Maintenance, and Signature Flight Support made\na difference by collecting about 3,750 toys for the annual US Marine Toys for\nTots toy drive. Several organizations and individuals throughout Boca Raton\nalso dropped off toys at these Airport locations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boca Raton Airport Management Robert Pratt, Clara Bennett, and Robert Abbott.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis year, we were able to fill over 76 boxes with toys\nplus 35 bicycles and two dozen scooters, which is significantly more than in\nthe previous four years,\u201d said Boca Raton Airport Authority Executive Director\nClara Bennett. \u201cThe Boca Raton Airport Authority, our tenants, and people\nthroughout Boca Raton wanted to make sure as many children in Palm Beach County\ncan have a special holiday by helping the Marine Corps in achieving this goal,\u201d\nsaid Bennett. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Boca Raton Airport Authority would like to thank its\ntenants and the local community for their amazing participation this year. A\nspecial thank you goes to our three tenants who went above and beyond this\nyear, Reliable Jet Maintenance, who collected 25 bicycles, 25 helmets, and two\nboxes filled with toys, Atlantic Aviation who filled eight boxes and donated 2\nbicycles, and Boca Aircraft Maintenance (BAM), who filled seven boxes and\ndonated a bicycle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another special thank you goes to Fantasy Cares, which is an\norganization founded by Scott Fish. Their mission is to push people to bring a\ncharitable element to their fantasy leagues and to help raise money each year\nthrough the fantasy sports community for various charities. Most of the money\nraised is to be used to buy toys for kids at Christmas, with those toys being\ndonated to Toys for Tots. Over the past 11 years, the group has raised hundreds\nof thousands of dollars for Toys for Tots and other organizations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Boca Raton Airport Authority Board Members Jim Nau, Melvin Pollack and Boca Raton Airport Management Clara Bennett, Scott Kohut, Jada Stewart, Vanessa Chen, Robert Abbott, and Robert Pratt and US Marines Captain Andrew Elliott and Sgt Brian Gardner. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Palm Beach County, the group has donated over $20,000 in\ntoys over the past four years. This year, Kenny Tevelowitz of Rotowear and\nHeath Cummings of CBS Fantasy, along with family and friends, delivered nearly\n$10,000 worth of toys and purchased with the proceeds of Rotowear’s Scott Fish Bowl\nt-shirts. The Scott Fish Bowl is a Fantasy Football tournament that Fish has\nrun for 11 years and is the primary driver of Fantasy Cares donations. Lennar\nHomes, UBS Financial Service, SBAA Communications, Eagles Landing Middle\nSchool, Redcon 1, 4 Media Central, Service Finance Company, LLC are other\nparticipating organizations who donated over hundreds of toys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the fifth year in a row, the Boca Raton Airport Authority, along with Airport Tenants including Atlantic Aviation, Boca Aircraft Maintenance, Boomers, Cinemark Palace, Fairfield Inn & Suites by Marriot, Privaira, Reliable Jet Maintenance, and Signature Flight Support made a difference by collecting about 3,750 toys for the annual US Marine Toys for Tots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-florida"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20404,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20401\/revisions\/20404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}