{"id":90575,"date":"2026-01-19T04:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90575\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T04:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T04:37:07","slug":"scranton-community-unites-in-heartfelt-support-for-local-womans-leukemia-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90575\/","title":{"rendered":"Scranton community unites in heartfelt support for local woman&#8217;s leukemia battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Scranton, a community benefit was held to support Lori Decker, who faces leukemia treatment. Proceeds will aid her medical bills.<\/p>\n<p>SCRANTON, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, community members came together to support one of their own in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Scranton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Scranton Dunmore Fraternal Order of Police, along Railroad Avenue, hosted a benefit to support Lori Decker.<\/p>\n<p>Decker was recently diagnosed with leukemia and is preparing to start chemotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>There were pasta dinners, a bake sale, and live entertainment throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s amazing, it&#8217;s, it&#8217;s overwhelming like I just, \u00a0I don&#8217;t even know how to feel, like I said, I have, everybody&#8217;s family to me. This is like a Community that&#8217;s become family,&#8221; said Decker.<\/p>\n<p>The proceeds from today&#8217;s benefit will help Decker pay her medical bills and other expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Scranton, a community benefit was held to support Lori Decker, who faces leukemia treatment. Proceeds will aid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90576,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-90575","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\/90575","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=90575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}