{"id":44918,"date":"2025-11-26T05:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44918\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T05:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T05:04:07","slug":"the-friends-of-the-poor-and-the-catherine-mcauley-center-serve-thousands-of-thanksgiving-meals-in-scranton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/44918\/","title":{"rendered":"The Friends of the Poor and the Catherine McAuley Center serve thousands of Thanksgiving meals in Scranton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands received Thanksgiving meals from Friends of the Poor and the Catherine McAuley Center, helping the community fill their tables this holiday.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Helping folks fill their Thanksgiving tables this holiday in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Friends of the Poor and the Catherine McAuley Center distributed thousands of meals to the local community on Tuesday afternoon at the Scranton Cultural Center.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Camilo says, &#8220;I happened to stumble upon this, and I kinda just got right into the lane, because why not? You know, I kinda need a little extra food, we all do nowadays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meghan Loftus, President &amp; CEO Friends of The Poor says, &#8220;To be able to be here and provide that for people who otherwise wouldn&#8217;t have that meal, really means a lot because we just want everyone in the community to be able to sit down and have a family meal, make the same memories we do, just to feel stress free for a few hours.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the organization will hold a drive-through food basket giveaway at the Scranton Cultural Center from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands received Thanksgiving meals from Friends of the Poor and the Catherine McAuley Center, helping the community fill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-44918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44918","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=44918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}