{"id":200996,"date":"2026-05-24T01:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200996\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T01:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T01:15:06","slug":"1st-annual-bingo-event-raises-money-for-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/200996\/","title":{"rendered":"1st annual bingo event raises money for veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Saturday afternoon Dickson City residents came together to play some Bingo for a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 people came out to Veteran\u2019s Promise 1st annual designer purse bingo. Featuring raffle baskets, door prizes, 50\/50s, and bingo, players competed for luxury bags donated by local shops. Held in the Dickson City Community Center, players young and old had a great time knowing the buy in and any subsequent purchases all went to a good cause.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the proceeds go to Veterans Promise,&#8221; explained Veteran&#8217;s Promise president Peter Sehne. &#8220;We\u2019re all volunteers here, so we\u2019re nonprofit, we\u2019re grassroots, so every dime goes to veterans a lot of people don\u2019t know what we do. They say, \u2018who is Veteran\u2019s Promise?\u2019 So that\u2019s why we\u2019re here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veteran\u2019s Promise is a local nonprofit that works to help raise awareness about veteran\u2019s mental health. They offer support to families of veterans who have committed suicide and help to veterans with PTSD. Sehne said that due to the success of the event, their first bingo fundraiser won\u2019t be their last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DICKSON CITY, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Saturday afternoon Dickson City residents came together to play some Bingo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-200996","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\/200996","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=200996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}