{"id":285373,"date":"2026-09-13T23:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285373\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:06:13","slug":"cornhole-tournament-in-scranton-raises-funds-for-suicide-prevention-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/285373\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornhole tournament in Scranton raises funds for suicide prevention initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A cornhole tournament raising awareness for suicide prevention began early this afternoon in <a data-ylk=\"slk:Scranton;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Scranton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The &#8220;Toss to Save Lives Tournament&#8221; was held at Divine Mercy Parish along Davis Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Competitors were offered complimentary food throughout the day, with proceeds benefiting the parish&#8217;s mental health ministry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of fun here, a lot of camaraderie going on here. Free food, free ice cream, and just to get everybody together on a Sunday afternoon where they could be home watching football or doing other activities. They came out to support us, so we thank them very, very much,&#8221; said Deacon Martin Castaldi of Divine Mercy Parish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">People of all ages were allowed to participate in today&#8217;s cornhole tournament with each winning team taking home a $150 prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cornhole tournament raising awareness for suicide prevention began early this afternoon in Scranton. The &#8220;Toss to Save&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[118931,118932,178,180,179,59914],"class_list":["post-285373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-cornhole-tournament","tag-divine-mercy-parish","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-suicide-prevention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285373","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=285373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}