{"id":4306,"date":"2015-03-25T11:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=4306"},"modified":"2015-03-25T11:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:46:24","slug":"state-legislators-announce-museum-grants-for-lehigh-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=4306","title":{"rendered":"State Legislators Announce Museum Grants for Lehigh Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">HARRISBURG \u2013 <\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Reps. Gary Day (R-Lehigh\/Berks), Julie Harhart (R-Lehigh\/Northampton), Ryan Mackenzie (R-Berks\/Lehigh) and Justin Simmons (R-Lehigh\/Montgomery\/<wbr \/>Northampton) today announced grants totaling more than $100,000 from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) to organizations in the Lehigh Valley. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">The state funding is being allocated in the following amounts:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology, Inc. \u2013 $44,937.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Historic Bethlehem Partnership \u2013 $22,481.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Lehigh County Historical Society \u2013 $10,796.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society \u2013 $8,373.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">National Canal Museum \u2013 $5,784.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center \u2013 $9,850.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">In a joint statement, the lawmakers said:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">\u201cWe firmly believe in the mission of each of these fine organizations, which is to preserve and portray the rich heritage of the Lehigh Valley. We are pleased the PHMC board of commissioners has approved the allocations and helped to ensure these groups can continue their important work, which benefits all of us who live here.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 12pt;\">The PHMC\u2019s Cultural and Historical Support Grant Program provides general operating support to eligible museums and official county historical societies in Pennsylvania. For the 2014-15 fiscal year, $1.9 million has been awarded to 121 organizations. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Representative Gary Day<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">187<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> District<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Representative Julie Harhart<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">183rd<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"> District<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Representative Ryan Mackenzie<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">134<sup><span style=\"font-size: small;\">th<\/span><\/sup> District<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 14pt;\">Representative Justin Simmons<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">131st<\/span><\/strong><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"> District<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Pennsylvania House of Representatives<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\">Media Contact:\u00a0 Andy Briggs<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><a>717.260.6474<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';\"><a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">abriggs@pahousegop.com<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=3023\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4307,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4306","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\/PHMC.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306"}],"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=4306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}