{"id":108080,"date":"2021-09-05T15:16:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T19:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108080"},"modified":"2021-09-05T15:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-09-05T19:18:19","slug":"tree-planting-initiative-at-the-allentown-fairgrounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108080","title":{"rendered":"TREE PLANTING INITIATIVE AT THE ALLENTOWN FAIRGROUNDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA, Sept 2021 \u2014 Pennsylvania&#8217;s Music Preservation Society (PAMPS) presented the Lehigh County Agricultural Society with ten movable planters containing Red Maple trees to help beautify the Allentown Fairgrounds for the 2021 Great Allentown Fair and all future events.\u00a0 The planters were put together with the help of these community partners:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Allentown Fairgrounds Farmers Market: Eleven 5-gallon watering bucket<\/li>\n<li>BF Brown &amp; Co Asphalt Paving: Signs for planters<\/li>\n<li>City of Allentown: Three tons of mulch in twenty 55-gallon cans<\/li>\n<li>Danner Paving: Cleaned crushed stone<\/li>\n<li>Lehigh County Agricultural Society: Donation<\/li>\n<li>Lehigh Law Enforcement Officers Assoc.: Topsoil sheeting<\/li>\n<li>Mother2Mother: Donation<\/li>\n<li>Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley: Youth volunteers who planted the trees<\/li>\n<li>Signal 88 of the Lehigh Valley: Tree watering and other assistance<\/li>\n<li>Tilley&#8217;s Nursery: Design &amp; consultation; ten red maple trees with topsoil<\/li>\n<li>Uline of the Lehigh Valley: Ten tree boxes with shipping protection<\/li>\n<li>Williams Signs: Four large signs with white plastic box wrap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"su-image-carousel  su-image-carousel-columns-4 su-image-carousel-has-spacing su-image-carousel-crop su-image-carousel-crop-1-1 su-image-carousel-has-lightbox su-image-carousel-has-outline su-image-carousel-adaptive su-image-carousel-slides-style-default 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One of the large signs shows a list of &#8220;Health Bureau Heroes&#8221;, while another lists the Allentown Volunteer Medical Reserve Corps (AVRMC) and Lehigh County&#8217;s Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteers who worked at the Allentown Health Bureau&#8217;s COVID vaccine clinics. A third sign lists members of Pennsylvania&#8217;s Music Preservation Society, the organization responsible for the tree planting initiative.<br \/>\nInformation provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nPennsylvania&#8217;s Music Preservation Society<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pamusicsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/pamusicsociety.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA, Sept 2021 \u2014 Pennsylvania&#8217;s Music Preservation Society (PAMPS) presented the Lehigh County Agricultural Society with ten movable planters containing Red Maple trees to help beautify the Allentown Fairgrounds &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=108080\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TREE PLANTING INITIATIVE AT THE ALLENTOWN FAIRGROUNDS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108086,"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":[5716,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/pamps.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108080"}],"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=108080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}