Mayor Eddie Moran and state Rep. Manny Guzman will host the city\u2019s fifth annual Back-to-School Giveaway, providing free school supplies, haircuts and other services to help families prepare for the start of the school year.<\/p>\n
The event will take place Aug. 19 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the courtyard at 644 Penn St.<\/p>\n
Students will receive free school supplies on a first-come, first-served basis while supplies last. Free snacks, refreshments, fresh fruit, haircuts, hairstyling services and vision screenings will also be available.<\/p>\n
Community organizations will also be on hand to connect residents with local and state resources.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery child deserves to start the school year with confidence and the tools they need to succeed,\u201d the mayor said in an announcement. \u201cFor the fifth year, we\u2019re bringing our community together to support Reading families by providing essential supplies, free services and resources that can make a real difference.\u201d<\/p>\n
Guzman said the annual event continues to expand its impact by helping underserved families prepare students for the new school year.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis year\u2019s Back-to-School Giveaway is bigger and better than ever, and I look forward to bringing families together and providing immediate support to students across our community,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Free parking will be available from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Sixth and Cherry streets parking lot, courtesy of the Reading Parking Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Eddie Moran and state Rep. Manny Guzman will host the city\u2019s fifth annual Back-to-School Giveaway, providing free…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,857,182,139,858,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-264594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-essential-reading","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-ontap","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264594","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=264594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}