{"id":252207,"date":"2026-07-26T04:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252207\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T04:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T04:47:07","slug":"bill-canjar-scholarship-awarded-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252207\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Canjar Scholarship awarded \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scranton Area Community Foundation awarded the Bill Canjar Scholarship to Laura Durkin, who trained at Ballet Theatre of Scranton. After graduating from Scranton Prep in 2025, she was accepted to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where she will begin her sophomore year this fall. The award supports her continued training and growth as a dancer to carry on Bill\u2019s legacy. From left: Jacob Torba, SAF; Laura Durkin, awardee; Sean McAndrew, husband of the late Bill Canjar; and Joanne Arduino, artistic director, Ballet Theatre of Scranton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scranton Area Community Foundation awarded the Bill Canjar Scholarship to Laura Durkin, who trained at Ballet Theatre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-252207","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252207","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=252207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}