{"id":42117,"date":"2025-11-23T04:23:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42117\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:23:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:23:06","slug":"blue-plate-special-event-in-pittsburgh-to-raise-money-for-pennsylvania-food-pantries-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42117\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blue Plate Special\u2019 event in Pittsburgh to raise money for Pennsylvania food pantries \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 Efforts continue to bolster food pantries ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Several area lawmakers are hosting an event Tuesday. Dubbed the \u201cBlue Plate Special,\u201d it benefits Hunger-Free Pennsylvania. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cThe SNAP nonpayment issue has been dealt with, so I think a lot of people think we\u2019re OK and don\u2019t have to worry about local food pantries, but a lot of them have 25% more families coming than this time last year,\u201d said Rep. Abigail Salisbury (D-Allegheny County).<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event will begin at 6 p.m. at the Bricklayers Union Hall in Pittsburgh, and will feature a blues band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">You can donate there or online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungerfreepa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.hungerfreepa.org\/\">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 Efforts continue to bolster food pantries ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Several area lawmakers are hosting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25205,25202,25207,25206,15781,5609,1515,10733,5722,25203,10091,25204,20614,14256,83,73,75,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-42117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-abigail-salisbury","9":"tag-blue-plate-special","10":"tag-blues-band","11":"tag-bricklayers-union-hall","12":"tag-donate","13":"tag-event","14":"tag-food","15":"tag-food-pantries","16":"tag-food-pantry","17":"tag-fundraise","18":"tag-funds","19":"tag-hunger-free-pa","20":"tag-hunger-free-pennsylvania","21":"tag-lawmaker","22":"tag-money","23":"tag-pittsburgh","24":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","25":"tag-pittsburgh-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42117","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=42117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}