December 20, 2017
Around the Christmas City
- Hellertown Light Up Night
- Gingerbread houses at Coun try Meadfows
- Southside tree lighting
- Fountain Hill’s new Christmas tree
- Community Advent Breakfast
- 20th Luminaria Nigh
COMMUNITY'Souper’ day for New Bethany Ministries
By Douglas Graves
Organizations seek to help struggling Puerto Rico
“The Lehigh Valley has shown time and time again that we take care of
our own,” said Allentown Councilman Julio Guridy speaking Nov. 21 at a rally in
Fountain Hill asking for money to help area charitable organizations to meet
the challenges of providing help to the refugees from Puerto Rico fleeing the
devastation wrought by Hurricane Maria. “I’m not too proud to beg,” said
Guirdy, who was born in Dominican Republic. “I beg us all to consider how lucky
we are to be spared the devastation and who have the resources to help. If you
can afford to $5 or $500 or even $5,000, we need that contribution today.”
Photo: City of
Bethlehem Councilwoman Olga Negron said, “This is personal.” Negron was there
with her recently-arrived elderly and ailing parents.
By Douglas Graves
Book recounts city’s firefighting heritage
“Firefighting
in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania” co-authors Karen Samuels and Nancy Rutman presented
a slide show of some of the 200 images from their new book to a
standing-room-only audience in Seidersville. Sponsored by the Lower Saucon
Township Historical Society, the
presentation also discussed the extensive research that helped uncover some of
the most interesting and revealing stories of the city’s early firefighters and
the challenges they faced. Chris Eline, a Bethlehem firefighter for the past 24
years, is also a co-author of the firefighting book. He is noted for having
gathered photographs and related artifacts from the fire department’s history,
and created display cases for the items throughout the city.
By Carole Gorney
Hawks aim for dominance
It may be a different group of
wrestlers for Bethlehem Catholic this year, but many people expect more of the
same. The Hawks enter the season with a preseason national ranking of No.13 by
Intermat and look to push their way towards the top of the PIAA dual meet
podium after falling to Nazareth last year in the district and state dual meet
championships. Head coach Jeff Karam comes back for his 10th year leading the
program that looks to stay in the conversation of the state’s best.
By Peter Car
A family Christmas
Multi-Dove and Grammy Award
winner David Phelps performs classic Christmas songs at the State Theatre
Center for the Arts, 7 p.m. Dec. 22. The former member of the renowned Gaither
Vocal Band for 20 years will lend his powerful tenor to the sounds of the
season. “This is our nineteenth annual Christmas tour. I can’t believe I’ve
been doing anything that long. Every year in November we pull out the Christmas
music and dust it off and we come up with some new arrangements to add to it.
By Makenna Masenheimer
OTHER STORIES
Bethlehem: HCC board rejects ‘pencil-like’ structure – again
Northampton County: Gaming board issues final grants
Lehigh County: Commissioners review financial forecast
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