{"id":279160,"date":"2026-09-04T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279160\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T19:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T19:04:15","slug":"united-ways-day-of-caring-spruces-up-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/279160\/","title":{"rendered":"United Way&#8217;s Day of Caring spruces up region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Way Lackawanna, Wayne &amp; Pike held its annual Day of Caring in Lackawanna County on Thursday. The initiative brings together local businesses, organizations, community groups and individual volunteers to give back and make a meaningful impact across the region. Volunteers are paired with local nonprofit agencies and community organizations to complete much-needed service projects. From beautification and landscaping to painting, cleanup and other hands-on projects, volunteers spend the day working together to support organizations that serve local communities every day. United Way will hold its Wayne and Pike counties Day of Caring on Sept. 23.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Posture Interactive Business Coordinator Johnathon Burns paints the walls inside of Outreach Center for Community Resources in Scranton for the United Way Day of Caring in Scranton Thursday, September 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-DAYOFCARING-0904-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1905432\" \/>Posture Interactive Business Coordinator Johnathon Burns paints the walls inside of Outreach Center for Community Resources in Scranton for the United Way Day of Caring in Scranton Thursday, September 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Posture Interactive Production Coordinator Dominic Angeloni paints the walls inside of Outreach Center for Community Resources in Scranton for the United Way Day of Caring in Scranton Thursday, September 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/STT-L-DAYOFCARING-0904-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1905433\" \/>Posture Interactive Production Coordinator Dominic Angeloni paints the walls inside of Outreach Center for Community Resources in Scranton for the United Way Day of Caring in Scranton Thursday, September 3, 2026. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"United Way Lackawanna, Wayne &amp; Pike held its annual Day of Caring in Lackawanna County on Thursday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[60,201,182,28,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-279160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-business","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279160","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=279160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}