{"id":152992,"date":"2026-03-31T04:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152992\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:54:25","slug":"former-eagles-player-delivers-keynote-speech-at-olivet-leaders-and-legends-dinner-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/152992\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Eagles player delivers keynote speech at Olivet ‘Leaders and Legends’ dinner | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

READING, Pa. \u2013 It was a night of inspiration and charity at the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading.<\/p>\n

That’s where the Olivet Boys and Girls Club’s annual “Leaders and Legends\u201d fundraising dinner was held Monday.<\/p>\n

The night included performances by club members, awards and a speech from the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s speaker was former Philadelphia Eagles cornerback Herm Edwards.<\/p>\n

He said the event hit home for him, as a former member of his hometown Boys and Girls Club.<\/p>\n

“When you think about the Boys and Girls Club, you think about a place where \u2014 the mentorships that go on there \u2014 the staff members that are involved with these kids everyday, in their everyday lives, is very important,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIt’s a significant place; it really is.”<\/p>\n

“They’re the fabric of America, to be quite honest,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Edwards met with children at the Boys and Girls Club ahead of Monday night\u2019s dinner. He told them to have the courage to bet on themselves.<\/p>\n

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Herm Edwards speaks with children at the Olivet Boys and Girls Club in Reading.<\/p>\n

WFMZ-TV | Tim Lind<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. \u2013 It was a night of inspiration and charity at the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading. That’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152993,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[69529,69530,8320,4538,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-152992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-herm-edwards","tag-leaders-and-legends","tag-olivet-boys-and-girls-club","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992","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=152992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}