{"id":108230,"date":"2026-02-08T04:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108230\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T04:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T04:20:08","slug":"volunteer-hose-company-of-throop-marks-20-years-of-wingfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108230\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer Hose Company of Throop marks 20 years of &#8216;Wingfest&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Lackawanna County, the Volunteer Hose Company of Throop is gearing up for its 20th &#8220;Wingfest,&#8221; a key fundraiser offering online orders and new meal options.<\/p>\n<p>THROOP, Pa. \u2014 Chicken wings have become a staple of every Super Bowl spread, and a volunteer fire company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a> has been providing the community with the iconic dish for two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Volunteer Hose Company of Throop is preparing to host &#8220;Wingfest&#8221; on Sunday, its most important fundraiser of the year.<\/p>\n<p>The event offers raffle tickets, an option to eat in, and of course, the chance to buy their iconic chicken wings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s our 20th anniversary of doing it. And the demand was there from the public, and they wanted a little bit of a better value for the meals, so we decided to make the 50lber the 50-piece pan as an option this year with celery and blue Cheese,&#8221; said Robert Hegedus, President and Firefighter at the Volunteer Hose Company of Throop.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers say this year they&#8217;re offering people the chance to order and pay for their wings online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Lackawanna County, the Volunteer Hose Company of Throop is gearing up for its 20th &#8220;Wingfest,&#8221; a key&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-108230","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\/108230","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=108230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}