{"id":42122,"date":"2025-11-23T04:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42122\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T04:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T04:35:10","slug":"blue-plate-special-event-in-pittsburgh-to-raise-money-for-pennsylvania-food-pantries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42122\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Blue Plate Special\u2019 event in Pittsburgh to raise money for Pennsylvania food pantries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/cc22e53d5c41c02a6c51519501410b26.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Efforts continue to bolster food pantries ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Several area lawmakers are hosting an event Tuesday. Dubbed the \u201cBlue Plate Special,\u201d it benefits Hunger-Free Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can donate there or online by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hungerfreepa.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:clicking here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Efforts continue to bolster food pantries ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Several area lawmakers are hosting an event&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[25205,25202,10733,73,75,74,25208],"class_list":["post-42122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-abigail-salisbury","tag-blue-plate-special","tag-food-pantries","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-thanksgiving-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122","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=42122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}