{"id":11670,"date":"2025-10-22T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11670\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T20:15:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T20:15:20","slug":"veterans-enjoy-fall-festival-at-gino-j-merli-center-in-scranton-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/11670\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans enjoy Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Center in Scranton \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Scranton Tomorrow\u2019s Safe, Clean, Green &amp; Design team worked Wednesday with volunteers from sponsor Hamilton Lane \u2014 an investment management company with an office in Scranton \u2014 to host the third annual Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Veterans Center in Scranton. Veterans had the opportunity to paint pumpkins, plant fall flowers and engage in fun, seasonal activities while enjoying live entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Pat Churilla paints a pumpkin with her husband of 40 years Joseph Churilla during the Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center in Scranton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/STT-L-FALLFEST-CAPST-1023-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1452776\" \/>Pat Churilla paints a pumpkin with her husband of 40 years Joseph Churilla during the Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Veterans\u2019 Center in Scranton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Frank Gervasi performs classic hits for residents and their guests during the Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Veterans' Center in Scranton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/STT-L-FALLFEST-CAPST-1023-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1452777\" \/>Frank Gervasi performs classic hits for residents and their guests during the Fall Festival at Gino J. Merli Veterans\u2019 Center in Scranton on Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Members of Scranton Tomorrow\u2019s Safe, Clean, Green &amp; Design team worked Wednesday with volunteers from sponsor Hamilton Lane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-11670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-lackawanna-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-scranton","12":"tag-scranton-headlines","13":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670","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=11670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}