{"id":57178,"date":"2025-12-10T10:13:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57178\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T10:13:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T10:13:08","slug":"gifts-for-kids-lifts-holiday-spirits-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/57178\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Gifts for Kids&#8217; lifts holiday spirits (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton provided holiday cheer for families in the Carbondale area Tuesday. Through the \u201cGifts for Kids\u201d program, families of 284 pre-registered children selected gifts for their kids ahead of Christmas at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church in Carbondale. Winter essentials such as coats, hats, gloves and scarves, as well as stocking stuffers, were available.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catholic Social Services volunteer Christina Hoffman and April Bezdziecki, supervisor...\" class=\"size-article_inline\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-03.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Catholic Social Services volunteer Christina Hoffman and April Bezdziecki, supervisor of the truancy intervention program for Lackawanna County, put out items for the gift distribution at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Carbondale Tuesday, December 9, 2205. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Childrens\u2019 clothes are put out during the gift distribution at...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-04.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-04.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Childrens\u2019 clothes are put out during the gift distribution at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Carbondale Tuesday, December 9, 2205. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dorothy O\u2019Connor, adminstrative assistant for Catholic Social Services, puts out...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-05.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-05.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dorothy O\u2019Connor, adminstrative assistant for Catholic Social Services, puts out items during the gift distribution at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Carbondale Tuesday, December 9, 2205. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volunteer with Catholic Social Services Trish Smith puts out more...\" class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-02.jpg?w=620\"  bad-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-GIFTS-1210-02.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Volunteer with Catholic Social Services Trish Smith puts out more items for the gift distribution at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Carbondale Tuesday, December 9, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p>Show Caption<\/p>\n<p>1 of 4<\/p>\n<p>Catholic Social Services volunteer Christina Hoffman and April Bezdziecki, supervisor of the truancy intervention program for Lackawanna County, put out items for the gift distribution at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church in Carbondale Tuesday, December 9, 2205. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand\" aria-label=\"Expand fullscreen slideshow\">Expand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton provided holiday cheer for families in the Carbondale area Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[3099,201,182,139,28,727,178,180,179,181],"class_list":["post-57178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-carbondale","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178","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=57178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}