Everyone is invited and every child will get a toy at this Saturday’s Christmas party in Scranton.<\/p>\n
SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 Two years ago Bianca Waltos was living in a tent in Wilkes-Barre.\u00a0 One day, employees from Junken Monkeys were there giving people food, and Bianca was curious.<\/p>\n
“They took care of me, asked me if I needed anything and I said a job! \u00a0So that brought me here and it’s been all good since,” Bianca Waltos said.<\/p>\n
Bianca has been working for the home cleanout and junk removal business ever since. \u00a0She now has her own apartment and has turned her life around. \u00a0It’s a similar story for many of the employees at Junken Monkeys, as well as Owner Brian Kerrigan, who has been in recovery for 27 years.<\/p>\n
“Been in all sorts of trouble but my life was changed and my duty is to change others’ lives the best I can and giving back is part of the 12 steps,” Brian Kerrigan said.<\/p>\n
Kerrigan and his team are giving back in a big way this weekend with their annual Christmas party. \u00a0Santa will arrive on a fire truck and every child will be given a gift. \u00a0There will be donuts, coffee, face painting, and a magician. \u00a0Everyone is invited.<\/p>\n
“Anyone from anywhere and if you can’t get here we will send an Uber or we will come and get you ourselves,” Kerrigan said.<\/p>\n
Kerrigan says there were more than 500 people at Junken Monkeys’ Halloween event. \u00a0<\/p>\n
“We put a specific percentage of profits away a year for our Halloween event, our clothing event and our Christmas event,” Kerrigan said.<\/p>\n
Employees are looking forward to making Christmas special for children in the Scranton community.<\/p>\n
“Very, very excited. \u00a0It’s really great to be able to do that,” Waltos said.<\/p>\n
The Christmas party is Saturday, December 6, at 11 am at one of Junken Monkeys’ properties in Scranton. \u00a0The address is 1124 West Market Street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everyone is invited and every child will get a toy at this Saturday’s Christmas party in Scranton. SCRANTON,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-50042","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\/50042","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=50042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}