{"id":42754,"date":"2025-11-24T00:10:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42754\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T00:10:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T00:10:09","slug":"operation-toy-train-makes-stops-in-berks-county-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/42754\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Toy Train makes stops in Berks County | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The toy train rolled into Berks County on Sunday!<\/p>\n

Operation Toy Train<\/a> is chugging along to 69 cities across 5 different states and today — they made a stop in Topton and Kutztown.<\/p>\n

They’re dropping off and collecting toys for the Toys for Tots foundation.<\/p>\n

Organizers say they established the Topton stop three years ago.<\/p>\n

“It’s just fun, it’s the right thing to do. I started it with the help of Operation Toy Train, this is our third year. Every year it gets bigger and better,” said Frank Garon, a volunteer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Topton fire department also handed off a cart full of toys on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KUTZTOWN, Pa. – The toy train rolled into Berks County on Sunday! Operation Toy Train is chugging along…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-42754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754","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=42754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}