{"id":291305,"date":"2026-09-22T04:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T04:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T04:36:08","slug":"friends-of-the-poor-and-catherine-mcauley-center-join-scranton-unico-for-annual-coat-drive-scranton-times-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/291305\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends of the Poor and Catherine McAuley Center join Scranton UNICO for annual coat drive \u2013 Scranton Times-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Scranton Chapter of UNICO National again teams up with the Friends of the Poor\/Catherine McAuley Center for the annual coat drive for the coming fall and winter months. From left, seated: Regina Peters, who will serve as honorary chair of the coat drive, which serves to provide needy people with new or gently used coats for winter; and UNICO member Barbara Giordano. Standing: Dino Darbenzio, current president of the Scranton Chapter; Ann Montoro Williams, manager, volunteers and outreach, for Friends of the Poor\/Catherine McAuley Center; and Diana Giovannini, UNICO, chair of the coat drive committee. Donations may be made by check mailed to UNICO Scranton Coat Drive, P.O. Box272, Dunmore, PA 18512. New or gently used coats may also be dropped off at the Friends of the Poor\/Catherine McAuley warehouse at 624 Fellows St., Scranton, Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., or may be deposited in marked boxes at locations throughout Lackawanna County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Scranton Chapter of UNICO National again teams up with the Friends of the Poor\/Catherine McAuley Center for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[524,201,182,28,727,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-291305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-community","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291305","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=291305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}