{"id":285327,"date":"2026-09-13T21:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285327\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:13:07","slug":"spirit-of-erie-honors-community-members-making-an-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285327\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Spirit of Erie’ honors community members making an impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several people making a lasting impact in the community were celebrated Thursday night.<\/p>\n

The Erie Regional Chamber hosted its annual \u201cThe Spirit of Erie\u201d event, honoring both people and organizations changing the area for the better.<\/p>\n

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From businesses to non-profits, the honorees were recognized for being community leaders, builders and champions for the public.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel honored to be here among my peers and inspired to encourage other young professionals to come to Erie, find their place here, and hopefully stay and make it even better,\u201d said Emily Wargo, digital and IT associate with Parker Lord.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re from Erie. We love Erie. My brother and I and our other partner Ryan, we\u2019re going to continue to forge ahead and bring coffee to local communities,\u201d said Frankie Stark, co-owner of Lucky Bean.<\/p>\n

Former Governor Tom Ridge was awarded the Spirit of Erie award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people making a lasting impact in the community were celebrated Thursday night. The Erie Regional Chamber hosted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285328,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-285327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285327","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=285327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285327\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}