{"id":241420,"date":"2026-07-12T04:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241420\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T04:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T04:16:07","slug":"veterans-news-july-12-2026-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241420\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans News, July 12, 2026 \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post 121 sponsoring community blood drive<\/p>\n<p>Community blood drive sponsored by Koch-Conley American Legion Post 121, July 14, 1-6 p.m., Nay Aug Park Community Room, 500 Arthur Ave., Scranton. Register at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redcrossblood.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">redcrossblood.org<\/a> and use sponsor code Nay Aug or call 1-800-733-2767. Walk-ins welcome.<\/p>\n<p>Dupont VFW Post 4909 Sock Hop dinner-dance<\/p>\n<p>Dupont VFW Post 4909 Home Association\u2019s annual Sock Hop party, Sept. 12, post home, doors open 4:30 p.m., dinner served, 6, and music, 7-10. Cash bar for mixed drinks, wine, beer, bottled water and soda, music by Luongo Brothers Band, $30\/person. For tickets and reservations, see or call Bob at the VFW, 570-472-1152. Deadline for reservations is the Friday before the party. Tickets cannot be sold at the door. All PLCB regulations apply. Barrels will be out for the sock collection. Please bring calf socks (preferably white) for the veterans at the Gino J. Merli Veterans Center and the VA Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Post 25 golf tournament<\/p>\n<p>VFW Post 25\u2019s first golf tournament, Sept. 13, Homestead Golf Course. Check-in 9 a.m., shotgun start, 10, $100\/player or $400\/foursome; sponsorships available; call 570-961-3260.<\/p>\n<p>Meetings<\/p>\n<p>Post 25: VFW General Theodore J. Wint Post 25, Sunday: canteen\/home association, 11:30 a.m., with regular meeting to follow.<\/p>\n<p>Post 6082: VFW Shopa Davey Post 6082 general membership meeting, Sunday, 3 p.m., post home, 123 Electric St., Peckville.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Post 121 sponsoring community blood drive Community blood drive sponsored by Koch-Conley American Legion Post 121, July 14,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,803,139,28,178,180,179,289,729,2349,1481],"class_list":["post-241420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-uncategorized","tag-veterans","tag-wayne-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241420","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=241420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}