{"id":42426,"date":"2025-11-23T14:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42426\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T14:43:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T14:43:10","slug":"thanksgiving-resource-fair-held-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42426\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanksgiving Resource Fair held in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Manny Guzman wants to make sure people in Reading have a happy holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why the Democrat hosted his fifth annual Thanksgiving Resource Fair on Friday, an event designed to support local families and connect them with state and federal assistance programs.<\/p>\n<p>The fair, which was held in Concilio Pentecostal El Lugar De Refugio Inc. church\u2019s parking lot in the 200 block of South Ninth Street, included the distribution of a combined 1,000 turkeys, pork shoulder and roasted half ducks.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Volunteers distribute food during the Thanksgiving Resource Fair in the 200 block of South Ninth Street on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025. (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)\" width=\"3000\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/REG-L-GuzmanThanksgivingResourceFair1242.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2475225\" \/>Volunteers distribute food during the Thanksgiving Resource Fair in the 200 block of South Ninth Street on Friday, Nov. 21, 2025.  (BILL UHRICH\/READING EAGLE)<\/p>\n<p>Guzman\u2019s team also provided information on the state\u2019s property tax and rent rebate programs, job opportunities, updates on nutrition and utility assistance programs, PennDOT services and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the most valuable aspects of the event is hearing directly from constituents,\u201d Guzman said in a statement announcing the event. \u201cI look forward to answering questions and listening to the concerns of both long-time residents and new families in the district.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State Rep. Manny Guzman wants to make sure people in Reading have a happy holiday season. That\u2019s why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-42426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news","16":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426","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=42426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}