{"id":67953,"date":"2018-03-09T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=67953"},"modified":"2018-03-09T17:00:32","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T22:00:32","slug":"lehigh-county-penn-state-extension-hold-townhall-meetings-spotted-lantern-fly-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=67953","title":{"rendered":"Phillips Armstrong Elected to Board of Directors of County Executives of America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Appointment Expands Lehigh County\u2019s Impact and Presence Nationally<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(Allentown, PA)-\u00a0 Lehigh County Executive Phillips Armstrong was elected to serve on the Board of Directors for the County Executives of America.\u00a0 He will join the ranks of a variety of nationally esteemed local leaders ranging from mayors to county judges. All are county-wide elected officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s truly an honor to have been selected by my peers and fellow elected officials to serve in a leadership role for this critical national organization.\u00a0 I look forward to representing the interests of local government and ensuring that the CEA continues to provide valuable advice to county government,\u201d said Phillips Armstrong.<\/p>\n<p>The County Executives of America began operating independently in 1994 to facilitate policy discussions regarding local issues and act as a representative body for county government in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has over 840 county executive governments over 45 states.\u00a0 The County Executives of America currently has 700 affiliated members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nJoshua SiegelPublic Information Officer<br \/>\nCounty of Lehigh, Office of the County Executive<br \/>\n17 S. 7th Street, 4th Floor, Suite 436<br \/>\nAllentown, PA 18101<br \/>\nwww.lehighcounty.org<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\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<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' 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=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50861,"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":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Lehigh-County.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67953"}],"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=67953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}