{"id":2566,"date":"2010-10-19T18:04:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T01:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2010-10-20T02:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-10-20T09:19:10","slug":"news-brief-wanna-see-chehalis-firefighters-in-kilts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"News brief: Wanna see Chehalis firefighters in kilts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2564\" style=\"width: 264px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010.1019.pipes_.drums_.pub_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2564\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2564\" title=\"Firefighters Pipes\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010.1019.pipes_.drums_.pub_2.jpg\" alt=\"2010.1019.pipes.drums.pub_2\" width=\"254\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vancouver Firefighters Pipes and Drums<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chehalis firefighters Jay Birley and Rob Gebhart are bringing their bagpipes out in public again on Saturday night when they entertain at a fundraiser at the Chehalis Eagles.<\/p>\n<p>Their group,\u00a0 Vancouver Firefighters Pipes and Drums, will entertain at the event that begins at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The benefit is for the daughter of Jeff and Angie Elder, both of whom work at the Chehalis Police Department. The family needs assistance in covering medical expenses for 9-year-old Keeton Elder.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2571\" style=\"width: 165px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010.1019.keeton.elder_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2571\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2571\" title=\"Keeton Elder\" src=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010.1019.keeton.elder_.png\" alt=\"2010.1019.keeton.elder\" width=\"155\" height=\"148\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keeton Elder<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Keeton has an undiagnosed condition which the family has been dealing with for the past five years. The search for answers has become expensive, according to friends, and not all of it is covered by her parent&#8217;s health insurance.<\/p>\n<p>So, Firefighter-investigator Birley arranged for an evening of beer drinking and bagpipe playing. The Eagles donated a keg and tickets for $10 pitchers can be purchased from Birley ahead of time.<\/p>\n<p>Birley says there is an account set up at Security State Bank, named &#8220;Benefit for Keeton&#8221; and folks should feel free to fill that up as well.<\/p>\n<p>Planning is also underway by friends of the Elders for a Dec. 4 spaghetti dinner and auction fundraiser at the Eagles. For information on that, contact Jenny Warstadt at 360-942-8405 or myhebo@live.com or Julie Hampson at 360-748-9722 or theranch@compprime.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter Chehalis firefighters Jay Birley and Rob Gebhart are bringing their bagpipes out in public again on Saturday night when they entertain at a fundraiser at the Chehalis Eagles. Their group,\u00a0 Vancouver Firefighters Pipes and Drums, will entertain at the event that begins at 6 p.m. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2570,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions\/2570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}