{"id":115022,"date":"2022-12-06T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115022"},"modified":"2022-12-06T18:28:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T23:28:16","slug":"santa-on-a-truck-is-coming-to-allentown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115022","title":{"rendered":"Santa on a Truck is coming to Allentown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Allentown, PA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The City of Allentown will host \u201cSanta on a Truck\u201d on Saturday, December 17 from 12 to 2 p.m. Santa Claus will travel escorted by firefighters and police officers on a fire truck to four fire stations across the City. The fire truck will stop and give candy canes to any children they see along the way.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-scaled.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-115024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-791x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"614\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-1187x1536.jpg 1187w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-1583x2048.jpg 1583w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-300x388.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Santa-on-a-Truck-scaled.jpg 1978w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Families are invited to meet and say hello to Santa, who will have small gifts for the first 100 children at each location.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit;\">Santa will start his tour of Allentown at the Central Fire Station at 12:00 p.m., and then travel to Fearless Fire Station, East Side Fire Station, and end his journey at Hibernia Fire Station. Each fire house visit will be limited to 20 minutes to allow time for Santa to travel to the next fire station. Santa will mingle a little longer for a brief mixer at Hibernia Fire Station to conclude his journey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong><u>Santa on a Truck Schedule<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12:00 p.m. to 12:20 p.m. at Central Fire Station<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">12:30 p.m. to 12:50 p.m. at Fearless Fire Station<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:00 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. at East Side Fire Station<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">1:30 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. at Hibernia Fire Station<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Santa on a Truck is sponsored by the IAFF Local 302, FOP Queen City #10, and the Allentown Police Athletic League (P.A.L.) program and organized in partnership with Cohesion Network and generous community donations.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nGenesis Ortega<br \/>\nCommunications Manager<br \/>\nOffice of the Mayor<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov\">http:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allentown, PA\u00a0\u2013 The City of Allentown will host \u201cSanta on a Truck\u201d on Saturday, December 17 from 12 to 2 p.m. Santa Claus will travel escorted by firefighters and police &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=115022\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Santa on a Truck is coming to Allentown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115023,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allentown","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/santa-fire-truck.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115022"}],"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=115022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}