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COATESVILLE, Pa. – Drumming teacher Anthony Cracchiolo is leading a unique lesson that goes well beyond music.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For the sixth consecutive year, Cracchiolo and his students at Anthony C Drums<\/a> have been raising funds to support the Coatesville VA Hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n This year, they surpassed their goal, collecting over $10,300 to purchase essential supplies for veterans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Community effort to support veterans <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Cracchiolo, along with his students and volunteers, organized a fundraising effort to gather hygiene products, clothing, and gift cards for the veterans. The initiative started with just a few shopping bags and has grown significantly over the years.<\/p>\n Jake Herring, a professional drummer and longtime student of Cracchiolo, played a key role in organizing the event. Herring, who has autism, expressed the importance of giving back, especially since his family has a history of military service.<\/p>\n “It\u2019s nice to help veterans and help giving back. It\u2019s very important because my grandparents were veterans,” said Herring.<\/p>\n The impact on the students <\/p>\n “The veterans served our country and it\u2019s nice to give back to people who gave to us,” said Hudson Clymer, an eighth-grade student involved in the effort. Shashi Patel, a parent, emphasized the valuable life lessons his child is learning through this initiative. Patel said<\/p>\n “Besides music what else do you learn and what you give back to the community and that\u2019s a very important lesson he\u2019s learning right now”.<\/p>\n Cracchiolo believes that the effort demonstrates to his students that the dedication they apply to music can also be used to make a positive impact in the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n “It feels great to do this. To give back is really the point of life,” said Cracchiolo.<\/p>\n Heartwarming News<\/a>Veterans Issues<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COATESVILLE, Pa. – Drumming teacher Anthony Cracchiolo is leading a unique lesson that goes well beyond music.\u00a0 For…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3665,4424,139,28,30,29,2349],"class_list":{"0":"post-77796","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-heartwarming","9":"tag-military","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","13":"tag-pennsylvania-news","14":"tag-veterans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796","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=77796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}