{"id":295828,"date":"2026-09-28T22:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295828\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T22:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T22:58:09","slug":"food-rally-at-fairgrounds-farmers-market-helps-400-families-put-meals-on-the-table-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/295828\/","title":{"rendered":"Food rally at Fairgrounds Farmer&#8217;s Market helps 400 families put meals on the table | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Hundreds of cars lined up to receive some much-needed food at a resource rally Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The event was held at the Fairgrounds Farmer&#8217;s Market in Muhlenberg Township Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say a significant portion of the population in Reading is living below the poverty line.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Food rally at Fairgrounds Farmer's Market helps 400 families put meals on the table\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abad9ce202cd.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Jace Codi<\/p>\n<p>Niagara Cares teamed up with Feed the Children and Helping Harvest to make sure everyone has food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteers helped distribute everything from fresh fruits and veggies to personal care items and water bottles.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Food rally at Fairgrounds Farmer's Market helps 400 families put meals on the table\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6abad9e763a4d.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    WFMZ-TV | Jace Codi<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s fantastic to be able to help out. I&#8217;m glad I could come out for the day. There&#8217;s so many needed people right now, and anything we can do to help put food on the table, especially for children,\u201d said Kevin Lerch, VP Board of Commissioners for Muhlenberg Township and volunteer at the rally.<\/p>\n<p>The event helped provide meals to 400 families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Hundreds of cars lined up to receive some much-needed food at a resource rally Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2347,122312,7301,6233,31980,122313,128,130,129,62784,122314,4345],"class_list":["post-295828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-community-support","tag-feed-the-children","tag-food-insecurity","tag-fresh-produce","tag-helping-harvest","tag-niagara-cares","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-pennsylvania","tag-resource-rally","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295828","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=295828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}