{"id":108223,"date":"2026-02-08T04:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108223\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:08:07","slug":"duryea-vfw-cornhole-and-chili-event-raises-funds-for-local-veterans-and-youth-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108223\/","title":{"rendered":"Duryea VFW cornhole and chili event raises funds for local veterans and youth sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As excitement builds for the Super Bowl, the Duryea VFW hosted a cornhole and &#8220;chili bowl&#8221; event where supporters could donate and try all the different chilies.<\/p>\n<p>DURYEA, Pa. \u2014 The Super Bowl may be this weekend, but in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/luzerne-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Luzerne County<\/a>, a more serious competition is taking place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Duryea VFW hosted its annual cornhole tournament and &#8220;chili bowl&#8221; ahead of the big game, with proceeds from the event supporting the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything for the VFW, and you know, usually we turn that back onto the community for veterans initiative. We&#8217;re supporting a little league and local football teams are things like that,&#8221; said Commander Danny Stella of the Duryea VFW.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say that even if cooking wasn&#8217;t your thing, supporters could donate $5 and try all the chilies themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As excitement builds for the Super Bowl, the Duryea VFW hosted a cornhole and &#8220;chili bowl&#8221; event where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-108223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108223","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=108223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}