{"id":310004,"date":"2026-10-19T18:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310004\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:32:07","slug":"drive-thru-chicken-dinner-to-support-erie-cemetery-cleanup-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310004\/","title":{"rendered":"Drive-Thru Chicken Dinner to Support Erie Cemetery Cleanup | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Erie<\/p>\n

ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Erie Cemetery is turning to the community for help with its ongoing storm cleanup efforts through a drive-thru BBQ chicken dinner fundraiser next month.<\/p>\n

The Erie Cemetery Association and Bentley Tree Care are hosting the event Nov. 14 from 1 to 5 p.m. at Erie Cemetery, 2116 Chestnut St.<\/p>\n

Dinners are $25 each and are available by presale only. The meals will be provided by Meeder\u2019s Restaurant of Ripley, New York. Tickets are available at eriecemeteryassoc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser comes as cleanup continues following the Sept. 3 windstorm, which damaged an estimated 500 of the cemetery\u2019s 1,200 trees.<\/p>\n

For weeks, crews with Bentley Tree Care have been removing fallen and damaged trees from the property.<\/p>\n

Erie Cemetery Association Executive Director David Rinderle said earlier this month<\/a> that the cemetery was about halfway through the cleanup process. In addition to tree damage, the cemetery is also assessing damage to headstones and monuments.<\/p>\n

Once debris removal is complete, attention will shift to restoring the tree canopy.<\/p>\n

Rinderle has said he hopes the cemetery can reopen by Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

The fundraiser is aimed at helping support that cleanup and recovery work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE, Pa. \u2014 Erie Cemetery is turning to the community for help with its ongoing storm cleanup efforts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[126865,136,19371,126864,138,137,2350,65059],"class_list":["post-310004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-drive-thru-dinner","tag-erie","tag-erie-cemetery","tag-erie-cemetery-association","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fundraiser","tag-storm-cleanup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310004","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=310004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}