{"id":259950,"date":"2026-08-05T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259950\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T22:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T22:34:07","slug":"ppl-workers-pack-kits-with-pencils-and-notebooks-for-elementary-students-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/259950\/","title":{"rendered":"PPL workers pack kits with pencils and notebooks for elementary students | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After summer camp ends, kids will soon head back to class, so one business is helping them get ready for the new school year.<\/p>\n<p>PPL workers spent time Wednesday packing boxes with school supplies for elementary-age students.<\/p>\n<p>They filled them with pencils, notebooks and all the essentials &#8212; enough to make 2500 kits.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers say it makes the transition easier.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So when you want to get to school, you want to start off the school year well,&#8221; said Damon Turbitt, volunteer\/senior communications specialist at PPL Corp. &#8220;These supplies are just one way to break down a barrier and let these students focus on the school year ahead.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>PPL has been holding its &#8220;Backpack Builders&#8221; event each year for several years now.<\/p>\n<p>The supplies packed Wednesday will be transferred into backpacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After summer camp ends, kids will soon head back to class, so one business is helping them get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-259950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259950","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=259950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}