{"id":64412,"date":"2025-12-18T16:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T16:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T16:51:08","slug":"toy-project-promises-thousands-of-kids-a-cheerier-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/64412\/","title":{"rendered":"Toy project promises thousands of kids a cheerier Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some 5,000 children in Lackawanna County will have a brighter Christmas thanks to the Gifts for Kids Holiday Gift Program, a collaboration between Friends of the Poor and the Catherine McAuley Center: A Partnership for the Common Good and Catholic Social Services of the Diocese of Scranton. The organizations are connecting community donors with families living at or below the poverty line. Preregistered families were able to \u201cshop\u201d at no cost for donated toys for their children, hosted at the University of Scranton\u2019s Byron Recreational Complex. Collected toys were delivered to the university, where volunteers sorted and prepared them for distribution on Tuesday and Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Toys are stacked up in the Byron Complex at the University of Scranton during the toy distribution Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-TOYSFORKIDS-CAPST-1218-04.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1500937\" \/>Toys are stacked up in the Byron Complex at the University of Scranton during the toy distribution Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Volunteer Brian Nasko helps shoppers during the toy distribution at University of Scranton's Byron Complex in Scranton Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)\" width=\"2400\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/STT-L-TOYSFORKIDS-CAPST-1218-03.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"1500938\" \/>Volunteer Brian Nasko helps shoppers during the toy distribution at University of Scranton\u2019s Byron Complex in Scranton Wednesday, December 17, 2025. (SEAN MCKEAG \/ STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some 5,000 children in Lackawanna County will have a brighter Christmas thanks to the Gifts for Kids Holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,8782,727,178,180,179,289,181],"class_list":["post-64412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-parenting-and-family","tag-photos-and-videos","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64412","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=64412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}