SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Monday morning, veteran organizations gathered in Scranton for the annual appointment of city grants.<\/p>\n
Every year since taking office, the mayor\u2019s office, in conjunction with city council, has given out grants to organizations that assist veterans operating within Scranton. <\/p>\n
On Monday, at the Scranton Veteran’s Memorial Park, Scranton mayor Paige Cognetti awarded representatives of eight veterans’ organizations with their grants, ranging from $5,000 to $16,000.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe grants this time are up to $16,000 that we gave and again, $16,000 for a local organization can be the difference between being able to help veterans and not being able to do it for the year,” said Mayor Cognetti. “So, it\u2019s really a wonderful program. These are organizations that we know well that do a great job for our community and make sure that our veterans always have what they need.\u201d<\/p>\n
The organizations submitted their grand applications in March and April then decided on the eight after an internal review.<\/p>\n
The organizations help with everything from giving veterans rides to employment and medical appointments, restoring gravestones of world war veterans, renovating facilities, and more.<\/p>\n
The list of recipients are:<\/p>\n
-Agency for Community EmPOWERment of NEPA (ACE), $7,500<\/p>\n
-American Legion Post 568, $16,000<\/p>\n
-Bread Basket of NEPA, $7,500<\/p>\n
-Fight4Vets, $16,000<\/p>\n
-Scranton Veterans Memorial Park, $5,000<\/p>\n
-UKAVETS, $16,000<\/p>\n
-Valhalla Veterans Services, $16,000<\/p>\n
-Warrior Strong, $16,000<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCRANTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 On Monday morning, veteran organizations gathered in Scranton for the annual appointment of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-247904","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\/247904","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=247904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}