{"id":107787,"date":"2021-08-19T18:41:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107787"},"modified":"2021-08-19T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-19T22:41:02","slug":"northampton-county-drive-through-distribution-of-school-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107787","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County &#8211; Drive-through distribution of school supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development announce a drive-through distribution of school supplies for low-income families on Saturday, August 21st from 9:00AM \u2013 1:00PM at Wesley Church, 2540 Center Street, Bethlehem, PA 18017. The County has provided a grant to help with the Smart Sacks book program and the Educational Backpack back-to-school program which are run by Sue Kiefer and Wesley Church. Backpacks will contain age appropriate reading books and school supplies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic has been challenging for everyone, but especially for school children and their families,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cThe County of Northampton is proud to support Smart Sacks and the Educational Backpack programs for the assistance they offer our K-12 students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBecky Bartlett<br \/>\nDeputy Director of Administration<br \/>\nNorthampton County Government Center<br \/>\n669 Washington Street<br \/>\nEaston, PA 18042<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/\">https:\/\/www.northamptoncounty.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Lamont McClure and the Department of Community and Economic Development announce a drive-through distribution of school supplies for low-income families on Saturday, August 21st from 9:00AM \u2013 1:00PM at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=107787\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County &#8211; Drive-through distribution of school supplies<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107788,"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":[69,5738,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-northampton-county","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/nc-school.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107787"}],"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=107787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/107788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}