{"id":176124,"date":"2026-04-25T23:15:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176124\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T23:15:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T23:15:21","slug":"pancan-purple-stride-walk-in-scranton-unites-community-to-fight-pancreatic-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176124\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancan Purple Stride Walk in Scranton unites community to fight pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dozens gathered in Scranton for the annual &#8216;Pancan Purple Stride Walk&#8217; at Nay Aug Park, raising funds for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Saturday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>, dozens wore purple ponchos and walked and jogged at Nay Aug Park for the annual &#8216;Pancan Purple Stride Walk&#8217; to raise money for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network.<\/p>\n<p>Those in the crowd who have somehow been touched by pancreatic cancer wore badges and t-shirts with team insignias. Like Joanne Connor of Taylor, who is currently fighting the rare condition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s strengthening but overwhelming. It&#8217;s mostly family, friends and I guess I&#8217;m surrounded by love,&#8221; said Connor.<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16 sponsored the Pancan Purple Stride Walk, with Mindi Ramsey, Newswatch 16&#8217;s very own, as the emcee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens gathered in Scranton for the annual &#8216;Pancan Purple Stride Walk&#8217; at Nay Aug Park, raising funds for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-176124","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\/176124","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=176124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}