{"id":118309,"date":"2026-02-19T19:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118309\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T19:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T19:08:08","slug":"pak-provisions-weinberg-food-bank-serve-hundreds-at-monthly-food-distribution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/118309\/","title":{"rendered":"PAK Provisions &#038; Weinberg Food Bank serve hundreds at monthly food distribution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A spirit of generosity and service is on display each month in Kingston as<a href=\"https:\/\/pakpeds.com\/resources\/food-dignity\/pak-provisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> PAK Provisions<\/a> partners with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.feedingamerica.org\/find-your-local-foodbank\/ceo-weinberg-northeast-regional-foodbank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Weinberg Food Bank<\/a> to host its Fresh Food Family Market Distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Open to all, the event offers both drive-through and walk-up options, with volunteers working to ensure that families receive fresh food and essential groceries.<\/p>\n<p>Emphasizing that the food distribution is open to anyone in need, <a href=\"https:\/\/pakpeds.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PAK Pediatrics<\/a> Executive Director JR Vought explained how the community effort operates. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPAK provisions, one of our community service lines. There&#8217;s a monthly community food distribution with partnership with the Weinberg Food Bank. It\u2019s on the third Thursday of every month. So, you don&#8217;t have to be a patient of PAK Pediatrics; it can be anybody in the community. They come out and get some healthy options,\u201d said Vought.<\/p>\n<p>As the weather begins to warm, Vought shared how many individuals and families the food distribution typically serves each month. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMother Nature blessed us with a nice gap here to be able to do it. We&#8217;re obviously a mobile pop-up shop, so we&#8217;re weather-dependent. But our partnership with Weinberg Food Bank allows us to give food to about 400 to 500 people, every third Thursday of the month,\u201d said Vought.<\/p>\n<p>Relying on the power of teamwork to keep the distribution running smoothly, Vought said the event simply wouldn\u2019t be possible without the dedicated volunteers who make it happen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re 100% volunteer supported. We get support through various local universities. Wilkes University, King\u2019s College, and some local high schools. And we also get partners from other businesses,\u201d said Vought.<\/p>\n<p>PAK Provisions is always seeking volunteers to help support its ongoing food distribution efforts.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about PAK Provisions and how to volunteer, <a href=\"https:\/\/pakpeds.com\/resources\/food-dignity\/pak-provisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KINGSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 A spirit of generosity and service is on display each month in Kingston&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-118309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309","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=118309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}