{"id":18116,"date":"2025-12-26T18:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2025-12-26T18:58:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T18:58:30","slug":"s-g-stores-hosts-9th-annual-day-of-thanks-and-giving-at-the-pinnacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/26\/s-g-stores-hosts-9th-annual-day-of-thanks-and-giving-at-the-pinnacle\/","title":{"rendered":"S &#038; G Stores Hosts 9th Annual Day of Thanks and Giving at The Pinnacle"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18117\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18117\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Mayor-Carty-Finkbeiner-receives-award-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Mayor-Carty-Finkbeiner-receives-award-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Mayor-Carty-Finkbeiner-receives-award-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Former-Mayor-Carty-Finkbeiner-receives-award.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner receives award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>By Dawn Scotland<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Truth Reporter<\/em><\/p>\n<p>S &amp; G Convenience Stores held their ninth Annual Day of Thanks and Giving on December\u00a016 at The Pinnacle. The store, which is \u2018locally owned and locally committed,\u2019 donated\u00a0over $200,000 to 67 local charities and organizations.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the organizations such CASA, Connecting Kids to Meals, Padua Center\u00a0and Toys for Tots help children and families throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is all made possible by people who shop in our stores and want to give something\u00a0back,\u201d said Neal Frandsen, S &amp; G vice president of Customer Experience. \u201cWe do it throughout the year,\u201d he added noting that the company just recently gave out 55 coats to families.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year we solicit donations and these are from funds collected at the stores,\u201d Frandsen said. The event has raised over $700,000 since its inception.<\/p>\n<p>S &amp; G was started by CEO Dan Ridi 25 years ago and currently has 85 locations with 54 in the Toledo area , along with about 1,500 employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dawn Scotland The Truth Reporter S &amp; G Convenience Stores held their ninth Annual Day of Thanks and Giving on December\u00a016 at The Pinnacle. The store, which is \u2018locally owned and locally committed,\u2019 donated\u00a0over $200,000 to 67 local charities and organizations. Many of the organizations such CASA, Connecting Kids to Meals, Padua Center\u00a0and Toys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18118,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[326],"class_list":["post-18116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18119,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18116\/revisions\/18119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18116"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=18116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}