{"id":150374,"date":"2026-03-27T21:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T21:16:10","slug":"health-and-wellness-assembly-at-riverside-junior-senior-high-school-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/150374\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and wellness assembly at Riverside Junior-Senior High School (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dr. Manju Thomas talks to 8th grade students about healthy...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-RIVERSIDE-CAPST-0328-05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Manju Thomas talks to 8th grade students about healthy eating during the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education\u2019s health and wellness assembly at Riverside Junior\/Senior High School in Taylor on Friday, March 27, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PA student McKenna Zohn, right, analyzes food labels with 8th...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-RIVERSIDE-CAPST-0328-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-RIVERSIDE-CAPST-0328-01.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>PA student McKenna Zohn, right, analyzes food labels with 8th grade students at Riverside Junior\/Senior High School in Taylor on Friday, March 27, 2026. The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education organized an assembly to teach students about wellness and healthy eating. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Students end the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-RIVERSIDE-CAPST-0328-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/STT-L-RIVERSIDE-CAPST-0328-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Students end the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education\u2019s health and wellness assembly with a walk around the gym at Riverside Junior\/Senior High School in Taylor on Friday, March 27, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Manju Thomas talks to 8th grade students about healthy eating during the Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education\u2019s health and wellness assembly at Riverside Junior\/Senior High School in Taylor on Friday, March 27, 2026. (REBECCA PARTICKA\/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Wright Centers for Community Health and Graduate Medical Education led an assembly Friday focused on wellness and nutrition for eighth grade students at Riverside Junior-Senior High School. Doctors Vikas Khurana and Manju Thomas led the program, which featured wellness stations and a movement and music activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Manju Thomas talks to 8th grade students about healthy eating during the Wright Centers for Community Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[227,201,182,139,28,178,180,179,4168],"class_list":{"0":"post-150374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news","16":"tag-taylor"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150374","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=150374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}