{"id":91312,"date":"2026-01-20T03:26:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91312\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T03:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:26:17","slug":"humane-animal-rescue-of-pittsburgh-gets-extra-volunteers-on-martin-luther-king-jr-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/91312\/","title":{"rendered":"Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh gets extra volunteers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/655044f01335006d523c74b687d5bed4.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh had some extra hands lend their time on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Students from Pitt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.studentaffairs.pitt.edu\/pittserves\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cPittServes\u201d program;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u201cPittServes\u201d program<\/a> came in to help with the animals and help package food for needy residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Organizers at HARP say volunteers are key to fulfilling their mission and all the initiatives they have in motion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cWhen we think about the number of hours &#8211; folks come in here multiple times a week to help us walk dogs, cuddle cats, and also these very important day of service opportunities&#8230;I think it\u2019s a wonderful way for organizations and groups to also be engaged in their communities,\u201d Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh Director of Marketing Michele Frennier said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Along with students coming in during the afternoon, HARP hosted a family volunteer night, bringing in families and kids to help make toys and treats for the shelter animals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:FREE WPXI News app;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Facebook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Twitter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Watch WPXI NOW;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Humane Animal Rescue of Pittsburgh had some extra hands lend their time on Martin Luther King Jr.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[11338,45040,44122,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-91312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-animal-rescue","tag-humane-animal-rescue","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-day","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91312","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=91312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}