{"id":167507,"date":"2026-04-16T12:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T12:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:44:09","slug":"mueller-family-mcdonalds-donates-10000-to-diocese-of-scranton-scholarship-foundation-diocese-of-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/167507\/","title":{"rendered":"Mueller Family McDonald\u2019s donates $10,000 to Diocese of Scranton Scholarship Foundation \u2013 Diocese of Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-128444\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/McDonalds-Scholarship-2026-243x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON \u2013 Carol Mueller and Christina Curran of the Mueller Family McDonald\u2019s presented a check for $10,000 to Diocese of Scranton Scholarship Foundation on Friday, March 20, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The donation was a result of the annual Fry Fundraiser that kicked off National Catholic Schools Week Jan. 25, 2026, and ended Feb. 15, 2026. A total of 21 Mueller Family McDonald\u2019s locations in Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming counties participated by donating a portion of every large order of french fries sold during that period. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so grateful to the Mueller family for their generosity and commitment to supporting families in need. This support is needed more than ever and ensures an excellent faith-based education is affordable and available to those desiring to attend one of our schools,\u201d Kristen Donohue, Diocesan Secretary for Catholic Education\/Superintendent of Schools, said. <\/p>\n<p>Shown above at the check presentation are, from left: Carol Mueller, Christina Curran, and Kristen Donohue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON \u2013 Carol Mueller and Christina Curran of the Mueller Family McDonald\u2019s presented a check for $10,000 to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-167507","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\/167507","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=167507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}