{"id":59422,"date":"2025-12-12T19:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59422\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T19:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T19:22:06","slug":"knights-of-lithuania-hold-traditional-kucios-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59422\/","title":{"rendered":"Knights of Lithuania hold traditional Kucios dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Knights of Lithuania Council 143, Pittston, held a Kucios celebration on Dec. 6 at Monsignor Bendik Center in Pittston, with 56 members and guests attending. Kucios is a traditional Christmas Eve meal in Lithuania and it is celebrated around the world by Lithuanian descendants. Installation of new officers and committee chairpersons for 2026 followed. Shown from left are: Rev. Joseph Elston, who installed the members; Mike Loncoski, trustee; Ruth Wnuk-Vytis, correspondent; Marilyn Fitzgerald, Lithuanian affairs; Mary Portelli, recording secretary; Janet Palladino, financial secretary and treasurer; Dennis Palladino, president and ritual; Sylvia Waxmonsky, sunshine; Don Waxmonsky, sergeant at arms; Mary Claire Voveris, trustee; Elaine Elko, historian; June Supey, public relations and Rob Kiska, Lithuanian culture. Absent from photo are Eileen Kelly, vice president; Ariana Andrejko, historian and Linda Savinski, third vice president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Knights of Lithuania Council 143, Pittston, held a Kucios celebration on Dec. 6 at Monsignor Bendik Center in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59423,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-59422","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\/59422","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=59422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}