{"id":3794,"date":"2018-04-16T20:46:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=3794"},"modified":"2018-04-16T20:46:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T20:46:26","slug":"community-opens-their-hearts-to-aha-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/04\/16\/community-opens-their-hearts-to-aha-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Community opens their hearts to AHA event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By Janessa Cruz<\/p>\n<p>A night of giving and community, the annual Lebanon County Heart Ball was held\u00a0on April 7.<\/p>\n<p>This was the first year the College has hosted the much-anticipated Central PA event. The Heart Ball was originally held at the Lebanon Country Club, but moved to the College because the attendance grew significantly.<\/p>\n<p>An event held to honor those who have overcome heart disease, the community gathers to remember those lost. One child and his parents shared their story at the event.<\/p>\n<p>Cody Truax was diagnosed with hypo-plastic left heart syndrome in utero.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe time up to then [Cody\u2019s birth] was very uncertain,\u201d said James Truax, Cody\u2019s father. \u201cLuckily the doctors and nurses were very involved, greeted us, got to know us by name, and still recognize him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Helping children like Cody wouldn\u2019t be possible without the help of sponsors and chairs of the event.\u00a0Candoris, a technology solutions company in Annville,\u00a0who\u00a0also sponsors\u00a0esports\u00a0at the College, sponsored the Heart Ball and committed to\u00a0being\u00a0a co-chair for the 2019 Heart Ball.<\/p>\n<p>The College enabled the community to come together to enhance awareness, treatments, and research to heart disease and stroke.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on donation to the American Heart Association, students can visit:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heart.org\/\">www.heart.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Janessa Cruz A night of giving and community, the annual Lebanon County Heart Ball was held\u00a0on April 7. This was the first year the College has hosted the much-anticipated Central PA event. The Heart <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2018\/04\/16\/community-opens-their-hearts-to-aha-event\/\" title=\"Community opens their hearts to AHA event\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-features","8":"category-local-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}