{"id":145065,"date":"2026-03-22T03:27:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145065\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T03:27:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T03:27:06","slug":"lackawanna-county-veteran-gears-up-for-charity-bike-race-to-support-cancer-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/145065\/","title":{"rendered":"Lackawanna County veteran gears up for charity bike race to support cancer research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Community rallies at &#8216;Last Minute Brewing Company&#8217; to support veteran Walter Tompkins in his 560-mile bike ride for cancer research from NYC to Niagara Falls.<\/p>\n<p>SCOTT, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>, community members came out to &#8216;Last Minute Brewing Company&#8217; in Scott Township in an effort to support a local veteran.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Walter Tompkins is gearing up to participate in a multi-day bike race with the purpose of raising money for cancer research.<\/p>\n<p>Walters has been training for seven months in preparation for the daunting 5-hundred-and-sixty-mile ride from New York City to Niagara Falls.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Really it start off with a personal goal and then really looking for the children in the future,&#8221; said Tompkins.<\/p>\n<p>Walters also says that he&#8217;s looking forward to the challenge of the race and meeting other people and survivors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Community rallies at &#8216;Last Minute Brewing Company&#8217; to support veteran Walter Tompkins in his 560-mile bike ride for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-145065","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\/145065","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=145065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}