{"id":101202,"date":"2026-01-31T00:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101202\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:06:13","slug":"cold-weather-impacts-helping-harvest-food-distribution-events-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/101202\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold weather impacts Helping Harvest food distribution events | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. \u2013 The frigid temperatures are impacting everything from school schedules to food services.<\/p>\n<p>Food banks in the region have been forced to cancel a number of activities, including <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/helpingharvest.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Helping Harvest\u2019s<\/a> \u201cMobile Market\u201d events.<\/p>\n<p>The nonprofit says it couldn\u2019t come at worse time, as 2025 was its busiest year. It distributed more than 11.1 million pounds of food, and the need keeps growing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8230; The need is increasing. Inflation is still a problem in our community,\u201d said Jay Worrall, president of Helping Harvest. \u201cPrices have never gone down to the 2020 levels where they were before, and most of the people that we serve are on some kind of a fixed income.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Helping Harvest is working with social workers from the Reading School District to make sure children who usually get free meals at school are still fed while schools are closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 The frigid temperatures are impacting everything from school schedules to food services. Food banks in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-101202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}