{"id":54084,"date":"2025-12-07T03:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54084\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T03:20:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T03:20:06","slug":"stuff-the-bus-for-toys-for-tots-collects-toys-and-donations-for-children-in-pittston-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/54084\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stuff the Bus for Toys for Tots&#8217; collects toys and donations for children in Pittston Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The annual &#8220;Stuff the Bus for Toys for Tots&#8221; event in Pittston Township aims to ensure no child wakes up on Christmas without a gift.<\/p>\n<p>PITTSTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, the annual &#8220;Stuff the Bus for Toys for Tots&#8221; returned to the Walmart Supercenter off Highway 315 in Pittston Township.<\/p>\n<p>County transportation authority staff, Marines, Santa, and Mrs. Claus were in attendance, gathering unwrapped toys, books, and games.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s more and more children in our area that need the toys and the gifts, so I mean we don&#8217;t want any child to wake up on Christmas without gifts,&#8221; said, LCTA Executive Director \u00a0Bob Fiume.<\/p>\n<p>Cash donations were also collected.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers say last year, Toys for Tots distributed more than 70,000 toys to nearly 23,000 children in our region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual &#8220;Stuff the Bus for Toys for Tots&#8221; event in Pittston Township aims to ensure no child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-54084","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54084","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=54084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}