Five families got a chance to do some holiday shopping recently thanks to Goodwill Keystone.<\/p>\n
Goodwill Keystone hosted \u201cGift of Joy\u201d events at five of its stores in the region, including the Reading and Robesonia locations in Berks County.<\/p>\n
Families were selected at each location to receive shopping sprees, filling reusable tote bags with items they needed, wanted or desired to gift to others for the holidays.<\/p>\n
The families \u2014 along with five other families \u2014 were each also given $200 grocery gift cards.<\/p>\n
\u201cHearing these families\u2019 stories and seeing their smiles reminds us why we do what we do \u2014 and that\u2019s serving our local communities,\u201d Andrew Gackenbach, chief mission and operating officer of Goodwill Keystone, said in a release. \u201cGoodwill Keystone was honored to make these families\u2019 holidays brighter. We thank our generous donors for making moments like this possible and for giving your items a second life, avoiding the landfill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Five families got a chance to do some holiday shopping recently thanks to Goodwill Keystone. Goodwill Keystone hosted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-67697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697","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=67697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}