{"id":261413,"date":"2026-08-08T03:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T03:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T03:14:09","slug":"county-wraps-up-final-fridays-in-the-park-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/261413\/","title":{"rendered":"County wraps up final Fridays in the Park series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Lackawanna County Area Agency on Aging concluded its 2026 Fridays in the Park series on Aug. 7, at Aylesworth Park, Jermyn. The program offers people 60 and older the opportunity to do crafts, enjoy entertainment, play bingo, have lunch and more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People gather for a game of Bingo during Fridays in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/STT-L-SENIORSSUMMERING-CAPST-0808-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People gather for a game of Bingo during Fridays in the Park hosted by the Lackwanna County Area Agency on Aging at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn Friday, August 7, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Joan Buckas, of Throop, right, and Mary ann Riedmiller, of...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/STT-L-SENIORSSUMMERING-CAPST-0808-01.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Joan Buckas, of Throop, right, and Mary ann Riedmiller, of Scranton, play Bingo during Fridays in the Park hosted by the Lackwanna County Area Agency on Aging at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn Friday, August 7, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People gather for a game of Bingo during Fridays in...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes-tribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/STT-L-SENIORSSUMMERING-CAPST-0808-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>People gather for a game of Bingo during Fridays in the Park hosted by the Lackwanna County Area Agency on Aging at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn Friday, August 7, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 3<\/p>\n<p>People gather for a game of Bingo during Fridays in the Park hosted by the Lackwanna County Area Agency on Aging at Aylesworth Park in Jermyn Friday, August 7, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Lackawanna County Area Agency on Aging concluded its 2026 Fridays in the Park series on Aug. 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[201,182,28,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-261413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261413","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=261413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}