{"id":176239,"date":"2026-04-26T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176239\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T02:54:10","slug":"pancan-purple-stride-walk-in-scranton-unites-community-to-fight-pancreatic-cancer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/176239\/","title":{"rendered":"Pancan Purple Stride Walk in Scranton unites community to fight pancreatic cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Saturday in <a data-yga=\"{\" ylinkelement=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:Scranton;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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":"On Saturday in Scranton, dozens wore purple ponchos and walked and jogged at Nay Aug Park for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[78878,78877,7252,73737,78875,78876,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-176239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-joanne-connor","tag-mindi-ramsey","tag-nay-aug-park","tag-pancreatic-cancer","tag-pancreatic-cancer-action-network","tag-purple-stride","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176239","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=176239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}