{"id":59530,"date":"2018-01-06T18:11:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=59530"},"modified":"2018-01-06T18:11:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:11:32","slug":"lehigh-county-special-olympics-local-listing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=59530","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh County Special Olympics &#8211; Local Listing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a0Lehigh County Special Olympics<\/h1>\n<figure id=\"attachment_59531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59531\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/specialolympicslehighcounty.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-59531 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Special-Olympics.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Special-Olympics.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Special-Olympics-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image provided by Lehigh County Special Olympics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Lehigh County Special Olympics offers 11 sports programs at no cost to the athletes:\u00a0 Alpine Skiing, Aquatics, Athletics (track &amp; field), Basketball, Bocce, Bowling, Golf, Gymnastics, Soccer, Softball and Volleyball.\u00a0 We are an all-volunteer organization and have no paid staff or coaches.\u00a0 All the funds we receive from fundraisers, businesses, individuals, etc., go directly to benefit the athletes.<\/p>\n<p>The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy, and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills, and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes, and the community.<\/p>\n<p>All training and competition opportunities are provided free of charge to the athletes and their families, enabling everyone to experience the benefits of Special Olympics that extend well beyond the playing field.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about Lehigh County Special Olympics and contacts, our website is:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.specialolympicslehighcounty.org\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.specialolympicslehighcounty.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1515356130370000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHwRcwMIeEHEHjS2YZ4Sy75zj_0yA\">www.specialolympicslehighcounty.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location address:<\/strong><br \/>\nLehigh County Special Olympics<br \/>\nPark Professional Building<br \/>\n2200 Hamilton Street, Suite LL-4<br \/>\nAllentown, PA\u00a0 18104<\/p>\n<p><strong>New mailing address:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Lehigh County Special Olympics<br \/>\nP.O. Box 339<br \/>\nEast Texas, PA\u00a0 18046-0339<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0Lehigh County Special Olympics &nbsp; Lehigh County Special Olympics offers 11 sports programs at no cost to the athletes:\u00a0 Alpine Skiing, Aquatics, Athletics (track &amp; field), Basketball, Bocce, Bowling, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=59530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh County Special Olympics &#8211; Local Listing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59532,"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":[69,707],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-local-business-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/LC-Special-Olympics.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59530"}],"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=59530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/59532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}