{"id":109266,"date":"2026-02-09T18:21:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109266\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T18:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T18:21:01","slug":"afghan-community-center-signs-contract-with-erie-cemetery-association-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/109266\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Community Center Signs Contract with Erie Cemetery Association | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was an exciting day for the Afghan community of Erie.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"signing.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1321\" height=\"460\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>Community members signed a contract with the Erie Cemetery Association to buy land for 50 graves at Laurel Hill Cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>They held an official signing ceremony at their community center at 4801 Peach Street on Sunday afternoon. This is will a specific place for the Afghan community at the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Officials hope this act continues to make Aghan community members feel welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an exciting day for the Afghan community of Erie. Community members signed a contract with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[52399,52400,136,19371,138,137,52401],"class_list":["post-109266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-afghan-community","tag-afghan-community-center","tag-erie","tag-erie-cemetery","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-laurel-hills-cemetery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109266","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=109266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}