{"id":146318,"date":"2026-03-23T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146318\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T21:23:07","slug":"make-a-difference-monday-20th-annual-battle-of-the-badges-hockey-game-returns-to-reading-make-a-difference-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146318\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Difference Monday: 20th Annual Battle of the Badges hockey game returns to Reading | Make A Difference Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Battle of the Badges Scholarship Fund is holding its 20th annual ice hockey game this Saturday at Reading&#8217;s Santander Arena.<\/p>\n<p>The fund was created in 2007, to provide scholarships to graduating high school seniors who are children of Reading firefighters or police officers, either active, retired, or deceased.<\/p>\n<p>The event features an ice hockey game between the Reading Police &amp; Fire Departments and the Berks County Law Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>While the winning team gets bragging rights for their troop, all proceeds are headed to local students on their way to college or a v-o-tech (vocational-technical) school.<\/p>\n<p>You can show your support by buying tickets on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/royalshockey.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reading Royals website<\/a> or you can donate directly to the fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Battle of the Badges Scholarship Fund is holding its 20th annual ice hockey game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[66711,66713,5705,6728,22240,128,130,129,6426,1751,12565,66712,3315],"class_list":["post-146318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-battle-of-the-badges","tag-berks-county-law-enforcement","tag-charity","tag-fundraising","tag-ice-hockey","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-fire-department","tag-reading-police","tag-santander-arena","tag-scholarship-fund","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146318","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=146318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}