{"id":159136,"date":"2026-04-07T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T04:37:07","slug":"purple-club-holds-raffle-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/159136\/","title":{"rendered":"Purple Club holds raffle \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Purple Club held its annual raffle, with Rich Meredick winning the first-place prize of $300 and Mary Francis Cimini winning the second-place prize of $150. The Purple Club has been around since 1933 to help students at the University of Scranton with their financial needs. All donations to the raffle go to future scholarship recipients. From left: Patrick O\u2019Malley, president, holds the raffle bag; Debbie Perry, secretary treasurer, draws ticket; and Ed Karpovich, vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Purple Club held its annual raffle, with Rich Meredick winning the first-place prize of $300 and Mary&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-159136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-community","9":"tag-lackawanna-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-photos-and-videos","13":"tag-scranton","14":"tag-scranton-headlines","15":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159136","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=159136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}