{"id":60849,"date":"2025-12-14T16:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60849\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:49:06","slug":"mckees-rocks-native-damar-hamlin-gears-up-for-6th-annual-toy-drive-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/60849\/","title":{"rendered":"McKees Rocks native Damar Hamlin gears up for 6th-annual toy drive \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">MCKEES ROCKS, Pa.  \u2014 McKees Rocks native and Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is getting ready for his annual toy drive that supports local families. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Through the Chasing M\u2019s Foundation, the event helps families in Hamlin\u2019s hometown celebrate the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">This is the 6th year Hamlin has given back through the toy drive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">\u201cMy parents have always been immersed deeply into the community, and this is the place that I come from that made me, so all of that added up, you know, it\u2019s the reason behind why I care about this place so much,\u201d Hamlin told Channel 11. \u201cI know what it can bring. It truly made me, so imagine a thousand versions of me running around. Imagine what this world can be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">The event is from 6-8:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Sto-Rox Area High School. Toys will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis. Adults who attend without kids must have a birth certificate for each child they would like to receive a toy for. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Last year, the event <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/more-than-1000-families-turn-out-damar-hamlins-annual-toy-drive\/QIBAHHUGTJAKNPKXTHPUEHS4FE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/news\/local\/more-than-1000-families-turn-out-damar-hamlins-annual-toy-drive\/QIBAHHUGTJAKNPKXTHPUEHS4FE\/\">served more than 1,000 area families. <\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. \u2014 McKees Rocks native and Buffalo Bills safety Damar Hamlin is getting ready for his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[32917,32915,32916,3313,73,75,74,16848],"class_list":{"0":"post-60849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-chasing-ms-foundation","9":"tag-damar-hamlin","10":"tag-damar-hamlin-toy-drive","11":"tag-mckees-rocks","12":"tag-pittsburgh","13":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","14":"tag-pittsburgh-news","15":"tag-toy-drive"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849","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=60849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}