{"id":138295,"date":"2024-12-10T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138295"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:25:13","slug":"ironpigs-announce-fill-santas-sleigh-on-december-15th-at-illumination-as-part-of-philling-the-need-presented-by-keybank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138295","title":{"rendered":"IronPigs Announce Fill Santa\u2019s Sleigh on December 15th at Illumination as Part of Philling the Need Presented by KeyBank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Philling the Need Initiative gets a holiday twist!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Allentown, Pennsylvania (December 10, 2024) <\/strong>\u2013 The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are excited to announce \u2018Fill Santa\u2019s Sleigh\u2019, a new one-day toy drive on December 15<sup>th<\/sup>, at Illumination at Coca-Cola Park as part of the Philling the Need initiative, sponsored by KeyBank.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, December 15<sup>th<\/sup>, help spread holiday cheer by donating <strong>new toys <\/strong>with Santa as part of our Philling the Need initiative sponsored by KeyBank! IronPigs Charities will deliver all toy donations to The Caring Place, a local nonprofit that helps young people every day! All toys must be new in-the-box or with tags still attached.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe IronPigs\u2019 collection drives held in-season have always been overwhelmingly successful and benefited numerous non-profits in the area! We are thrilled to expand our collection drive to the winter season and help collect new toys during Illumination,\u201d said Aaron Weisberg, Manager, Community Relations for the IronPigs. \u201cOur incredible partners at KeyBank help make opportunities like this possible, and we look forward to seeing how many toys we can collect on the 15<sup>th<\/sup>!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeyBank is proud to support the Lehigh Valley Iron Pigs\u2019 <em>Fill Santa\u2019s Sleigh <\/em>toy drive, an initiative that embodies the spirit of giving,\u201d said Youseff Tannous, Market President for KeyBank. \u201cOur partnership with the Iron Pigs allows us to make a meaningful difference and contribute to all that the Iron Pigs do to help the communities we serve thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During IronPigs season, Philling the Need is an initiative by the team where they collect various goods to be donated to local nonprofit organizations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Follow the IronPigs on Twitter at @IronPigs and like them on Facebook via <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LHVIronPigs\"><em>www.facebook.com\/LHVIronPigs<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The IronPigs are presented by <strong>Capital Blue Cross<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>&#8211;#YourHometownTeam\u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nSam Jellinek<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philling the Need Initiative gets a holiday twist! Allentown, Pennsylvania (December 10, 2024) \u2013 The Lehigh Valley IronPigs are excited to announce \u2018Fill Santa\u2019s Sleigh\u2019, a new one-day toy drive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=138295\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IronPigs Announce Fill Santa\u2019s Sleigh on December 15th at Illumination as Part of Philling the Need Presented by KeyBank<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138297,"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-138295","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\/2024\/12\/Illumination-santa-sliegh.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138295"}],"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=138295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}