{"id":24330,"date":"2018-11-19T18:44:12","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T23:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=24330"},"modified":"2018-11-19T09:45:07","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T14:45:07","slug":"speedbowl-hosting-2-major-events","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/11\/speedbowl-hosting-2-major-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedbowl hosting 2 major events"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl-300x77.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"77\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-22034\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl-300x77.png 300w, https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/new-london-waterford-speedbowl.png 444w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><strong>Speedbowl hosting 2 major events<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WATERFORD \u2014 The off-season promises to be a busy time at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. That\u2019s because there are two major events taking place on the Speedbowl calendar \u2014 the 5th annual Racers 4 Racers Holiday Toy Drive, scheduled for Dec. 4 at Langley\u2019s Restaurant in Waterford at 6:30 p.m. and the annual Speedbowl Awards Banquet, set for Feb. 9 at the Mystic Marriott.<\/p>\n<p>The toy drive has become a Speedbowl tradition. Last year more than 200 toys were donated by Speedbowl drivers, crew members, officials and fans to Kinship 4 Kids, an organization that helps out foster children.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>All those attending this year\u2019s party are asked to donate one unwrapped toy.<\/p>\n<p>Linda J. Cote, who founded Kinship 4 Kids 32 years ago, says the Speedbowl family has always come through in the past.<br \/>\n\u201cThere are a lot of good, warm people from the Speedbowl,\u201d Cote said. \u201cI\u2019ve never had a person say that they couldn\u2019t help us out.\u201d<br \/>\nWhen Kinship 4 Kids started 20 years ago, it helped out 20 foster children in Connecticut. That number has grown to more than 400.<br \/>\n\u201cWe plan events for foster children, like Christmas parties, birthday parties and summer camps,\u201d Cote said. \u201cWe also provide furniture for those who are ready to leave foster care \u2014 anything we can do to help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause of the people who donate, we give many children a chance that they wouldn\u2019t ordinarily have.  So many foster children and children of single parents benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is that hundreds of children in the area will have a better Christmas thanks to the Racers 4 Racers Toy Drive.<br \/>\nAnother tradition will take place on Feb. 9 at the Mystic Marriott, home of the Speedbowl Awards banquet since 2016.<br \/>\nBanquet information, including how to purchase tickets, will be released shortly. It will be posted online on the track\u2019s website, speedbowlct.com, and on the track\u2019s Facebook page,The Speedbowl (@theactiontrack)<\/p>\n<p>The seven Speedbowl 2018 track champions will be honored, and many special award winners will be announced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speedbowl hosting 2 major events WATERFORD \u2014 The off-season promises to be a busy time at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. That\u2019s because there are two major events taking place on the Speedbowl calendar \u2014 the 5th annual Racers 4 Racers Holiday Toy Drive, scheduled for Dec. 4 at Langley\u2019s Restaurant in Waterford at 6:30 p.m. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-connecticut","category-waterford-speedbowl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24331,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24330\/revisions\/24331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}