{"id":222383,"date":"2026-06-18T16:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222383\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:13:08","slug":"veterans-breakfast-club-gets-first-physical-location-in-shadyside-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/222383\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans Breakfast Club gets first physical location in Shadyside \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Veterans Breakfast Club has established a new physical location at the Phase four Learning Center in Pittsburgh\u2019s Shadyside neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Officials state this new space will enhance the organization\u2019s ability to serve veterans and document their stories for public sharing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This marks a significant development for the organization, which has operated for 18 years without a dedicated physical office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The facility is also designated for recruiting, community outreach and training events for all military branches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Todd DePastino, a representative of the Veterans Breakfast Club, highlighted the importance of this development for the community and the organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cI think this is a great day for the veterans community of Pittsburgh and it\u2019s a great day for the Veteran\u2019s Breakfast Club. We\u2019ve been operating for 18 years without a brick-and-mortar space. And now we\u2019re going to have a space where veterans feel welcome,\u201d DePastino said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 The Veterans Breakfast Club has established a new physical location at the Phase four Learning Center&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222384,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[35032,96737,139,859,22595,73,75,74,6442,96736,420,860],"class_list":["post-222383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-35032","tag-learning_center","tag-news","tag-ott_news","tag-phase","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-shadyside","tag-veterans_breakfast_club","tag-video","tag-wpxi-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222383","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=222383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}