{"id":221415,"date":"2026-06-17T15:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221415\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:12:08","slug":"volunteers-turn-out-for-big-cheese-event-in-berks-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221415\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers turn out for &#8216;Big Cheese&#8217; event in Berks | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; About 500 volunteers are making sure kids don&#8217;t go hungry in Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers turned out for the United Way of Berks County&#8217;s tenth annual &#8220;Big Cheese&#8221; event.<\/p>\n<p>They packed about 250,000 macaroni and cheese meals on the campus of Penn State Berks in Spring Township.<\/p>\n<p>The meals will be distributed by Helping Harvest Food Bank to school children through the &#8220;Weekender Program&#8221; and given to food pantries in the Reading School District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; About 500 volunteers are making sure kids don&#8217;t go hungry in Berks County. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-221415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221415","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=221415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}