{"id":244550,"date":"2026-07-16T04:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:36:07","slug":"st-carlo-acutis-parish-annual-family-festival-set-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/244550\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Carlo Acutis Parish Annual Family Festival set \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plans are underway for St. Carlo Acutis Parish Annual Family Festival, which begins with a youth event at the Throop Civic Center, Sanderson Street, Throop. Boys and girls will participate in soccer, baseball and soccer skills Aug. 14 beginning at 6 p.m., with ages 16 and under engaging in fun activities. Last year more than 50 young people participated in the event at the parish, which is made up of St. Patrick Church, Olyphant, and St. Anthony of Padua Church, Throop. On Saturday, Aug. 15, a Family Bicycle Ride will leave Olyphant for Throop at 8:30 a.m. All ages and skill levels are invited; ages 18 and under must wear a helmet. The food portion of the festival will be held from 3-9 p.m. at St. Anthony\u2019s, Rebecca Street. A variety of traditional picnic and ethnic foods will be available. Kosmic Kidz will provide live music from 4-8 p.m. On Sunday, Aug. 16, the festival goes indoors to St. Anthony of Padua Church Hall, 215 Rebecca St., for bingo at 1 p.m., with the doors opening at noon. A special food menu will be available for all who enjoy bingo. A 50\/50 drawing and a variety of baskets will be available, with the festival wrapping up at 5 p.m. For ticket information, contact the parish office at 570-489-0752. For information on donations, contact Karen Doyle at 570-904-3241. For youth event questions, contact Ed Long at 570-561-8764. The parish will also have its annual chicken BBQ on Sept. 13 at St. Patrick\u2019s Church, Delaware Street, Olyphant. From left are volunteers Marcella Gawron, Karen Doyle, Christina Szydlowski and Liz O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plans are underway for St. Carlo Acutis Parish Annual Family Festival, which begins with a youth event at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-244550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244550","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=244550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}