{"id":27165,"date":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27165\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T23:06:09","slug":"dire-need-for-all-of-this-5-fill-a-bag-fundraiser-at-south-mall-helps-caring-hearts-non-profit-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/27165\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Dire need for all of this’: $5 Fill-a-Bag fundraiser at South Mall helps Caring Hearts non-profit | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – Thousands of donated clothes part of a $5 fill-a-bag South Mall fundraiser for non-profit Caring Hearts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ted Martinez says you can buy as many $5 brown bags or $10 kitchen garbage bags as you want.<\/p>\n

From 5:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the mall’s community room, the items will be available. What’s left over will be given away for free on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Funds will go to supporting the non-profit, that also operates a boutique.<\/p>\n

The goal is to help the homeless, less fortunate veterans, and anyone else down on their luck. This includes the non-profit.<\/p>\n

“Hopefully it’ll help us to keep that store up and Slatington hitting up and running.” Martinez said.<\/p>\n

That Slatington store, which gives away clothes for free is in jeopardy of closing.<\/p>\n

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Caring Hearts clothing store faces closure due to rent increase, community offers support<\/a><\/p>\n

A new land lord has doubled the rent. Martinez say they have until December 20 to figure out how to stay.<\/p>\n

“We approximately give anywhere from 850 to like 1200 pieces of items away per week up there. So there is a dire need for all this,” he said.<\/p>\n

A need you can fill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALISBURY TWP., Pa. – Thousands of donated clothes part of a $5 fill-a-bag South Mall fundraiser for non-profit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,17793,17797,17796,28,14608,17798,5473,17795,17794],"class_list":["post-27165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-dire","tag-fill-a-bag-fundraiser","tag-fill-a-bag-south-mall-fundraiser","tag-pennsylvania","tag-salisbury-twp","tag-slatington-store","tag-south-mall","tag-south-mall-fundraiser-for-non-profit-caring-hearts","tag-ted-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27165","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=27165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}