{"id":120392,"date":"2026-02-22T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120392\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:40:07","slug":"veterans-news-february-22-2026-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/120392\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans news, February 22, 2026 \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post 6082 pasta and meatball dinner<\/p>\n<p>Shopa Davey VFW Post 6082 pasta and meatball dinner, Sunday, serving 11 a.m.-3 p.m., $15\/ticket at the door or from a member, eat in or take out.<\/p>\n<p>Lenten fish dinners at Post 5207<\/p>\n<p>Fish &amp; More, available every Friday in Lent to include Good Friday, VFW Post 5207, Routes 502 and 307 in Covington Twp. Takeout orders can be called in starting at 4 p.m., 570-842-7301, and eat in, 5-8.<\/p>\n<p>Post 4909 St. Patrick\u2019s Day party<\/p>\n<p>Dupont VFW Post 4909 St. Patrick\u2019s Day party, March 14, with entertainment by the Fabulous 45\u2019s. Doors open at 4:30 p.m., dinner served at 6, music from 7-10, and cash bar, 4:30-10, for mixed drinks, wine, beer, bottled water and soda, $30\/person. Call Bob Lopata, 570-472-1152.<\/p>\n<p>Post 7069 St. Patrick\u2019s Day ham and cabbage supper<\/p>\n<p>VFW Abington Memorial Post 7069, 402 Winola Road, Clarks Summit, St. Patrick\u2019s Day ham and cabbage supper March 17 from 4 to 7 p.m. Dinners, at $14, also include potato, carrots, roll and butter, and dessert, and may be purchased daily at the post after 3 p.m. or by calling 570-586-9821 or 570-881-0273. There will be 50\/50 and basket raffle, and a bagpiper will perform at 4:30.<\/p>\n<p>Post 570 Bunny Breakfast<\/p>\n<p>William Hopkins American Legion Auxiliary Post 570 Bunny Breakfast, March 22, 10 a.m.-noon, Blakely Hose Company 2, 315 Second St., Blakely, $10\/adults and free\/12 and under, includes scrambled eggs, French toast sticks, sausage and hash browns. Parents may take a photo with the Bunny. Each child will receive a special gift and there will also be a craft table. A basket raffle will be held for those donating items or cash for residents of the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center. Check the Facebook page for American Legion Auxiliary Unit 570 for suggested items. Reservations can be made by contacting Ann Evans at 570-479-0806.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings<\/p>\n<p>Post 25: VFW General Theodore J. Wint Post 25, March 1: home association\/canteen, noon, and post meeting to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Post 207: West Scranton American Legion Kosciuszko Post 207, March 5, 7 p.m., SS. Peter &amp; Paul\u2019s Church, West Locust Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post 6082 pasta and meatball dinner Shopa Davey VFW Post 6082 pasta and meatball dinner, Sunday, serving 11&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,289,729],"class_list":["post-120392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120392","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=120392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}