SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Wednesday morning volunteers helped Scranton residents have a happier Easter.<\/p>\n
Dozens gathered outside the Scranton Cultural Center to give out 2000 meals during the annual Family to Family Easter Food Basket Giveaway. Partnering with Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center, volunteers of all ages worked for hours to fill bags with essential foods like ham and vegetables and give them out to those in need as they drove up or walked by. Organizers said they are always humbled by the amount of help and volunteers they receive.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re just so grateful because everybody just king of shows up and, you know, we\u2019ve never really had a problem, you know, with volunteers,” said Director of Family to Family Linda Robeson. “You know, people were here at 6 o\u2019clock this morning and they\u2019ll be here until we need them. So, I can\u2019t thank the people enough, everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family to Family also hosts meal giveaways for Thanksgiving and Christmas and relies entirely on donations, so if you want to help make someone\u2019s holiday more special, check out their Facebook page where you can donate or register to volunteer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Wednesday morning volunteers helped Scranton residents have a happier Easter. Dozens gathered…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-154804","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\/154804","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=154804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}