{"id":2055107,"date":"2025-09-28T02:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2055107"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:36:23","slug":"oktoberfest-offers-good-times-for-a-good-cause","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/oktoberfest-offers-good-times-for-a-good-cause\/","title":{"rendered":"Oktoberfest offers good times for a good cause"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">QUINCY (WGEM) &#8211; There\u2019s been no shortage of Polka and beer flowing in Quincy\u2019s German Historic District this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The Rotary Club of Quincy\u2019s annual Oktoberfest celebration kicked off Saturday at 10 a.m. and will last through 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">This year\u2019s festivities include live music, costume contests, beer cavern tours, and the fan-favorite 0.2-kilometer Beer and Brat Dash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">But according to one event organizer, Oktoberfest in Quincy is more than a block party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cIt\u2019s a great event for the community \u2014 is what it really is,&#8221; said Quincy Rotary Club President Tommy Hendren. \u201cIt\u2019s a blessing to us as Rotarians to be able to come out here (and) serve our community. It helps fund our projects locally&#8230; it\u2019s huge to our club.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Local projects funded and supported by the Rotary Club of Quincy include the John Wood Workforce Development Center, the Bill Klingner Trail bridge and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Rotary International also devotes funds to polio research among a wide array of other humanitarian causes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\"><i>Copyright 2025 WGEM. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wgem.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QUINCY (WGEM) &#8211; There\u2019s been no shortage of Polka and beer flowing in Quincy\u2019s German Historic District this weekend. The Rotary Club of Quincy\u2019s annual Oktoberfest celebration kicked off Saturday at 10 a.m. and will last through 10 p.m. This year\u2019s festivities include live music, costume contests, beer cavern tours, and the fan-favorite 0.2-kilometer Beer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[379296,382225,22477],"class_list":["post-2055107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-beer","tag-costume-contests","tag-live-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2055107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}