{"id":8837,"date":"2026-08-05T18:49:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/community-supports-sistercare-at-soda-city-market-fundraiser\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T18:49:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:49:50","slug":"community-supports-sistercare-at-soda-city-market-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/community-supports-sistercare-at-soda-city-market-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Supports SisterCare at Soda City Market Fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>COLUMBIA, S.C.<\/strong> &mdash; Community members turned out in support of Sistercare during the first of this year&#8217;s three <strong>SisterCare Saturdays<\/strong>, held Aug. 1 at the intersection of Washington and Main streets during the popular Soda City Market.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraiser benefited Sistercare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping victims and survivors of domestic violence.<\/p>\n<p>One of the day&#8217;s highlights was a dunk tank featuring Columbia City Councilwoman <strong>Tina Herbert<\/strong>, City Councilman <strong>Peter Brown<\/strong>, and Columbia Assistant Fire Chief <strong>Christopher Kip<\/strong>, giving attendees an opportunity to support the cause while enjoying some friendly fun.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said the event drew strong community participation and helped raise funds to support Sistercare&#8217;s programs and services.<\/p>\n<p>The next <strong>SisterCare Saturday<\/strong> is scheduled for <strong>Sept. 12<\/strong> at Gather COLA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COLUMBIA, S.C. &mdash; Community members turned out in support of Sistercare during the first of this year&#8217;s three SisterCare Saturdays, held Aug. 1 at the intersection of Washington and Main streets during the popular Soda City Market. The fundraiser benefited Sistercare, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping victims and survivors<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/05\/community-supports-sistercare-at-soda-city-market-fundraiser\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30],"tags":[1371],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-8837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-profit","tag-sistercare"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sistercare_2026_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}