{"id":130609,"date":"2024-05-14T22:03:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130609"},"modified":"2024-05-14T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T02:03:18","slug":"siegel-applauds-14089-grant-for-casa-guadalupe-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130609","title":{"rendered":"Siegel applauds $14,089 grant for Casa Guadalupe Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HARRISBURG, May 14 \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>State Rep. Josh Siegel announced that a $14,089 state grant has been awarded to help improve a senior community center in his district.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Casa Guadalupe Center offers much to our community,\u201d Siegel said. \u201cThey are a non-profit, community-based organization established to meet the needs of primarily the Latino residents of the Lehigh Valley. It offers health, education and social services for people of all ages, from children to the elderly and everyone in between. Casa works in partnership with other organizations in the community to promote economic empowerment, social mobility and civic participation of all residents in the Lehigh Valley. I am proud that they were able to secure this competitive grant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Casa Guadalupe Center is one of 45 Senior Community Centers from 26 counties across the state that received funding from $2 million in competitive grants,\u00a0ensuring older adults are supported in familiar, local places\u00a0with services to stay healthy and connected to their communities.<\/p>\n<p>The grant funding is appropriated by the General Assembly\u00a0with proceeds\u00a0from the Pennsylvania Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>House Democrats are committed to promoting better jobs, better schools and better communities. Putting people ahead of politics, House Democrats are leading the charge to lower taxes, help workers save for retirement, put more teachers in local schools, and make communities safer. More information on these successful efforts is at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1715817733235000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2e3-v_tRcpUlMM3njt19-L\">pahouse.com\/deliveringforpa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nDeclan Shaffer<br \/>\nHouse Democratic Communications Office<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, May 14 \u2013\u00a0State Rep. Josh Siegel announced that a $14,089 state grant has been awarded to help improve a senior community center in his district. &nbsp; \u201cThe Casa Guadalupe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=130609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Siegel applauds $14,089 grant for Casa Guadalupe Center<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/State-Rep-Josh-Siegel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130609\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}