{"id":33431,"date":"2025-11-13T21:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33431\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T21:53:07","slug":"airport-collects-donations-for-federal-employees-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/33431\/","title":{"rendered":"Airport collects donations for federal employees (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport on Thursday held a donation drive for federal employees affected by the federal government shutdown. Items collected at the Pittston Twp. airport included food and household goods. Transportation Security Administration agents and air traffic controllers across the country worked without pay during the longest shutdown in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley speaks in a...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley speaks in a conference room where a food drive is held to assist federal employees affected by the government shutdown in the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Twp. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Pantry items sit are available to assist federal employees affected...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/STT-L-AVPDRIVE-CAPST-1114-03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pantry items sit are available to assist federal employees affected by the government shutdown in the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Twp. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 2<\/p>\n<p>Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport Executive Director Carl Beardsley speaks in a conference room where a food drive is held to assist federal employees affected by the government shutdown in the Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport in Pittston Twp. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wilkes-Barre\/Scranton International Airport on Thursday held a donation drive for federal employees affected by the federal government shutdown.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,803,139,28,4487,178,180,179],"class_list":["post-33431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pittston-township","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33431","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=33431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}