{"id":49333,"date":"2025-12-01T20:42:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49333\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:42:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T20:42:09","slug":"emtas-stuff-the-bus-event-brings-joy-to-erie-county-kids-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49333\/","title":{"rendered":"EMTA&#8217;s &#8220;Stuff the Bus&#8221; Event Brings Joy to Erie County Kids | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Otter Stuff the Bus.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1662\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Stuff the Bus.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1246\" height=\"1662\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority (EMTA) will host its 8th annual \u201cStuff the Bus\u201d toy drive on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at the Millcreek Mall Plaza, near Primanti Brothers. The event supports Toys for Tots of Erie County, helping bring holiday joy to local children.<\/p>\n<p>EMTA encourages donors to bring new, unwrapped, nonviolent toys. All contributions will directly benefit Toys for Tots of Erie County, which distributed 17,538 toys to 3,174 children during the 2024 holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>A Bayliner Trolley will be stationed at the mall to collect donations as part of the effort to \u201cStuff the Bus.\u201d For those unable to attend, donations can be dropped off at the EMTA administration office located at 127 East 14th Street from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, until Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The event will have Live music and entertainment provided by iHeart Media and Erie Otters Hockey ticket vouchers for donors (while supplies last)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStuff the Bus\u201d is a great way for the community to come together and make a difference for local families this holiday season.<\/p>\n<p>For more details, visit <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/eriesd.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">eriesd.org<\/a> or follow EMTA on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie Metropolitan Transit Authority (EMTA) will host its 8th annual \u201cStuff the Bus\u201d toy drive on Friday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[4509,17017,136,138,137,17020,16848,16849],"class_list":{"0":"post-49333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-donations","9":"tag-emta","10":"tag-erie","11":"tag-erie-headlines","12":"tag-erie-news","13":"tag-stuff-the-bus","14":"tag-toy-drive","15":"tag-toys-for-tots"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49333","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=49333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}