{"id":154567,"date":"2026-04-01T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154567\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T18:47:10","slug":"family-to-family-program-distributes-easter-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/154567\/","title":{"rendered":"Family-to-Family program distributes Easter food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center Family-to-Family Easter Food Basket Giveaway took place Wednesday at the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple. The drive-through\/walk-up event offered traditional Easter groceries, allowing families to prepare a holiday meal in their homes.\u00a0Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center provide essential support to those experiencing poverty and homelessness in Northeast Pennsylvania through programs offering food assistance, emergency shelter, housing support and case management.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"The Easter bunny and an Easter egg wave to vehicles during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/STT-L-EASTER-0402-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1595779\" \/>The Easter bunny and an Easter egg wave to vehicles during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Catherine McAauley Center coordinator Yani Diaz and volunteer Brian Nasko put out bags of food during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/STT-L-EASTER-0402-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1595780\" \/>Catherine McAauley Center coordinator Yani Diaz and volunteer Brian Nasko put out bags of food during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Volunteers load up vehicles with bags of food during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/STT-L-EASTER-0402-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1595781\" \/>Volunteers load up vehicles with bags of food during the Family to Family Easter Giveaway on N. Washington Ave. in Scranton Wednesday, April 1, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center Family-to-Family Easter Food Basket Giveaway took place Wednesday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,8782,28,727,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-154567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-parenting-and-family","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154567","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=154567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}