{"id":45984,"date":"2025-11-27T07:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45984\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T07:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:07:17","slug":"berks-businesses-team-up-to-serve-love-for-thanksgiving-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/45984\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks businesses team up to ‘serve love’ for Thanksgiving | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2013 Businesses banded together to give families one more reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n

Gourmand Cafe in Wyomissing, JPrutzman Enterprises, and Shillington Grocery Outlet<\/a> have been working together to help those in need.<\/p>\n

They’ve been collecting, preparing and distributing Thanksgiving meals. They call the effort, “Serve Love This Thanksgiving.”<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, more businesses joined in, donating things like cakes and flowers.<\/p>\n

People picked up meals at Gourmand Cafe<\/a> on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

“It’s just really warmed our hearts, the outpouring of support that we’ve gotten from the community,” said Jessica Prutzman, president of JPrutzman Enterprises<\/a>. “We worked with local social workers within four different school districts, so we’ve gotten vetted families that really need our help this year.”<\/p>\n

Families also received gift cards so they can come back to the caf\u00e9 and enjoy a meal after the holiday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WYOMISSING, Pa. \u2013 Businesses banded together to give families one more reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving. Gourmand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-45984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45984","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=45984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}