{"id":29577,"date":"2025-11-09T23:40:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29577\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T23:40:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T23:40:06","slug":"scouting-for-food-drive-collects-55000-pounds-for-helping-harvest-fresh-food-bank-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/29577\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting for Food drive collects 55,000 pounds for Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Thousands of Scouts helped fill shelves for families in need this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Scouting for Food drive brought in more than 55,000 pounds of donations for Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers spent the day sorting items that will be distributed to families across Berks and Schuylkill counties.<\/p>\n<p>With more people turning to food banks amid the government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Helping Harvest says this year&#8217;s drive comes at a critical time, just as many prepare for holiday meals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Thousands of Scouts helped fill shelves for families in need this weekend. The annual Scouting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-29577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577","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=29577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}