{"id":139338,"date":"2026-03-16T03:26:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139338\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T03:26:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T03:26:06","slug":"hunting-and-fishing-expo-in-mayfield-raises-funds-for-gino-merli-veterans-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/139338\/","title":{"rendered":"Hunting and fishing expo in Mayfield raises funds for Gino Merli Veterans Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event featured small businesses, basket raffles, food, and over 36 vendors.<\/p>\n<p>MAYFIELD, Pa. \u2014 The hunting and fishing expo took place today at William Walker House Company in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The event in Mayfield featured small businesses, basket raffles, and, of course, food.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say 36 vendors joined the event, all in an effort to support a good cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means a lot to see everybody come out and help the veterans and knows that everybody cares about the veterans, and we&#8217;re here for them,&#8221; said the organizer, Joseph Takach. &#8220;My way of getting back with the veterans and helping them out.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All proceeds from the expo will benefit the Gino Merli Veterans Center here in Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The event featured small businesses, basket raffles, food, and over 36 vendors. MAYFIELD, Pa. \u2014 The hunting and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-139338","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\/139338","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=139338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}