{"id":136238,"date":"2024-10-13T10:01:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=136238"},"modified":"2024-10-13T10:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T14:02:46","slug":"northampton-county-awards-for-outstanding-county-residents-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=136238","title":{"rendered":"Northampton County &#8211; Awards for Outstanding County Residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northampton County held its fourth annual festival on Saturday, October 12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0at Louise Moore Park. Lamont McClure recognized a number of municipal employees, first responders and residents for the positive impact they have on their communities and the County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Northampton County, we are privileged to have so many outstanding volunteers, emergency personnel, veterans and municipal employees,\u201d says Lamont McClure. \u201cIt is a great honor to not only recognize these citizens for their service, but to celebrate their contributions to our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Citizen of the Year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Dr. Chris Amato<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Businesses<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Hunter Hill CSA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Zekraft<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Bodacious Hair &amp; Body<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Mercantile Home<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">AM Luxe<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Small Business Owners<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Karen Widrick<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Manuel Fresneda<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Emergency Personnel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">James Steele<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Don DeReamus<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Good Samaritan<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Selina Winchester<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Veterans<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jonathan Wolfel<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Robert Dieter<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jim Kenna<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Charles A. Donello<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Frank Merritt<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jode Perez<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Al Van Horne<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">David Bennett<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Volunteers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Brenda Reinert<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Pat Herrity<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jennifer Gibson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Aurea Ortiz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Roseto Helping Hands<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Georgia Traupman<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sara Jo Carson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stephanie Steele<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>\u00a0 Outstanding Youth<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Schyler Schneck<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Outstanding Municipal Employees<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Stephanie Augello \u2013 City of Bethlehem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Sara Satullo \u2013 City of Bethlehem<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Kevin Martinez \u2013 City of Easton<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Homer G. Lorrah \u2013 Freemansburg Borough<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Barry Yonney \u2013 Hellertown Borough<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Theresa Fedele \u2013 Nazareth Borough<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Brenda Lazarus \u2013 Palmer Township<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jamie Paetzell \u2013 Palmer Township<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Shawn Shupe \u2013 Upper Nazareth Township<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nCounty of Northampton<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>Northampton County held its fourth annual festival on Saturday, October 12th\u00a0at Louise Moore Park. Lamont McClure recognized a number of municipal employees, first responders and residents for the positive impact &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=136238\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Northampton County &#8211; Awards for Outstanding County Residents<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122147,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/NC-Northampton.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136238"}],"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=136238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}