{"id":114538,"date":"2022-11-03T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T03:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114538"},"modified":"2022-11-03T23:28:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T03:28:54","slug":"lehigh-valley-wine-trail-giving-before-thanks-event-to-help-fill-shelves-at-two-area-food-banks-in-time-for-thanksgiving-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114538","title":{"rendered":"LEHIGH VALLEY WINE TRAIL GIVING BEFORE THANKS EVENT TO HELP FILL SHELVES AT TWO AREA FOOD BANKS  IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH VALLEY, PA \u2013 <em>November 3, 2022<\/em> \u2013 Next weekend the five member wineries of the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail will host their fourth annual food drive event, Giving Before Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, November 12 and Sunday, November 13 guests are invited to donate a non-perishable food item at each LVWT member winery. In exchange for the donation, the wineries will provide patrons with a complimentary three-wine tasting. (A food donation must be made at each winery on the trail to receive that winery\u2019s complimentary tasting.)<\/p>\n<p>The food will be donated to the food pantry at New Bethany Ministries in Bethlehem and the Portland\/Upper Mount Bethel Food Pantry in the Slate Belt. LVWT will also donate to the Second Harvest Food Bank of Lehigh Valley and Northeast PA $1 for each pound of food that was donated during the weekend event, up to $1,000.<\/p>\n<p>LVWT member wineries include: Black River Farms, Bethlehem; Blue Mountain Vineyards, New Tripoli; Franklin Hill Vineyards, Bangor; Tolino Vineyards, Bangor; and Vynecrest, Breinigsville.<\/p>\n<p>Event hours at all of the wineries are Saturday from 11 a.m. \u2013 5 p.m. and Sunday from noon \u2013 5 p.m. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleywinetrail.com\/events\/giving-before-thanks\/\">https:\/\/lehighvalleywinetrail.com\/events\/giving-before-thanks\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The event is also an opportunity to pick up wines for the upcoming holiday meals and to give as gifts. Passports for the wine trail\u2019s annual passport program Wine &amp; Shine Lehigh Valley will also go on sale this weekend for $39 each at all five wineries and online through EventBrite. The event is moving from March to April in 2023 for three weekends. <a href=\"https:\/\/lehighvalleywinetrail.com\/events\/wine-and-shine-lehigh-valley\/\">https:\/\/lehighvalleywinetrail.com\/events\/wine-and-shine-lehigh-valley\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Lehigh Valley Wine Trail is a nonprofit organization of wineries whose mission is to promote agri-tourism and to create a premiere wine destination and grape growing region while promoting Pennsylvania wines from the region.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nTracey Werner, Marketing Consultant<br \/>\ntracey@blabbermouthcommunications.com<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH VALLEY, PA \u2013 November 3, 2022 \u2013 Next weekend the five member wineries of the Lehigh Valley Wine Trail will host their fourth annual food drive event, Giving Before &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=114538\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LEHIGH VALLEY WINE TRAIL GIVING BEFORE THANKS EVENT TO HELP FILL SHELVES AT TWO AREA FOOD BANKS  IN TIME FOR THANKSGIVING<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114540,"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":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Photo-Nov-18-2-24-47-PM.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538"}],"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=114538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}