{"id":145939,"date":"2025-11-04T21:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145939"},"modified":"2025-11-04T21:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:25:08","slug":"bethlehem-morning-star-rotary-club-presents-the-21st-annual-salute-the-troops-concert-featuring-the-allentown-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145939","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club Presents the 21st Annual \u201cSalute the Troops\u201d Concert Featuring The Allentown Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club Presents the 21st Annual \u201cSalute the Troops\u201d Concert Featuring the Allentown Band<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Honoring Veterans, Supporting Victory House of Lehigh Valley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 [November 4, 2025] <\/strong>\u2014 The Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club proudly announces the 21st annual <em>Salute the Troops <\/em>concert, featuring the renowned <strong>Allentown Band<\/strong>, on <strong>Sunday, November 9, 2025<\/strong>, from <strong>3:00 to 5:00 p.m. <\/strong>at <strong>Northeast Middle School<\/strong>, 1170 Fernwood Street, Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>This beloved community tradition brings together families, veterans, and music lovers from across the Lehigh Valley to celebrate America\u2019s heroes through stirring, familiar patriotic music performed by the oldest civilian concert band in the United States\u2014<strong>The Allentown Band<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is a heartfelt <strong>tribute to all veterans and active-duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces <\/strong>whose courage, sacrifice, and dedication protect the freedoms we all cherish.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s <em>Salute the Troops <\/em>concert once again benefits <strong>Victory House of Lehigh Valley<\/strong>, an accredited Veteran Service Agency providing critical support to homeless veterans in our community. Victory House offers emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, counseling and life skills education to help men rebuild their lives and rejoin society as productive, self-sufficient citizens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you attend the <em>Salute the Troops <\/em>concert, you\u2019re not just enjoying an incredible performance\u2014you\u2019re helping change lives,\u201d said Rodney Conn, President of the Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club. \u201cYour participation directly supports veterans right here in the Lehigh Valley who are working hard to rebuild their futures.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club has been a proud partner of Victory House for many years, with residents and volunteers from Victory House providing invaluable support to the concert and other Rotary service projects \u2014 from setup and cleanup to community outreach.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>Salute the Troops <\/em>concert embodies the Rotary motto, <strong>\u201cService Above Self.\u201d <\/strong>The Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club, part of Rotary International\u2019s global network of 46,000 clubs, is dedicated to advancing humanitarian and charitable causes both locally and around the world.<\/p>\n<h2>Event Details:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: <\/strong>Sunday, November 9, 2025<\/p>\n<p><strong>Time: <\/strong>3:00 p.m. \u2013 5:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location: <\/strong>Northeast Middle School, 1170 Fernwood Street, Bethlehem, PA 18018<\/p>\n<h2>Tickets:<\/h2>\n<p>Tickets are $10.00 and available at at the door. Students are $5.00.<\/p>\n<p>Join us as we celebrate our nation\u2019s heroes and support a great cause. Together, we can make a difference\u2014one note, one song, and one veteran at a time.<\/p>\n<h2>About Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club<\/h2>\n<p>The Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club is part of Rotary International, a global organization of 1.4 million members who are \u201cPeople of Action.\u201d Guided by the motto <em>Service Above Self<\/em>, the Club supports humanitarian projects in the Lehigh Valley and around the world, addressing causes such as peacebuilding, disease prevention, and community development.<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nShawn Bariana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club Presents the 21st Annual \u201cSalute the Troops\u201d Concert Featuring the Allentown Band Honoring Veterans, Supporting Victory House of Lehigh Valley BETHLEHEM, PA \u2014 [November 4, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=145939\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bethlehem Morning Star Rotary Club Presents the 21st Annual \u201cSalute the Troops\u201d Concert Featuring The Allentown Band<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145940,"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":[5717,69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bethlehem","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/bmsr.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145939"}],"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=145939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}