{"id":52400,"date":"2025-12-04T21:14:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:14:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T21:14:22","slug":"eries-largest-clothing-drive-set-for-this-weekend-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/52400\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie&#8217;s Largest Clothing Drive Set for This Weekend | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Clothing Distribution.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Community Outreach Group has spent more than two decades serving Erie\u2019s most vulnerable neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>What began in 1999 with just 300 coats has grown into one of the region\u2019s largest clothing giveaways. Now, lines wrap around St. Paul\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night, volunteers from Cathedral Prep Football, Mercyhurst University, and Gannon University\u2019s softball and baseball teams helped unload and sort donations for this year\u2019s clothes drive.<\/p>\n<p>The big clothing distribution is open to the public, and anyone who walks through gets a bag they can fill with free clothes.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open Saturday at 9:30 AM at St. Paul\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Community Outreach Group has spent more than two decades serving Erie\u2019s most vulnerable neighbors. What began in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[29641,28457,136,138,137,29642,4345],"class_list":["post-52400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-clothing-drive","tag-community-outreach-group","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-free-clothes","tag-volunteers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52400","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=52400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}