{"id":92911,"date":"2019-06-12T20:13:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=92911"},"modified":"2019-06-12T20:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T00:13:06","slug":"registration-opens-monday-june-17-for-the-city-of-allentowns-eight-week-free-summer-playground-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=92911","title":{"rendered":"Registration opens Monday, June 17 for the city of Allentown\u2019s eight-week free summer playground program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>PLAYGROUND REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE 17<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Registration opens Monday, June 17 for the city of Allentown\u2019s eight-week free summer playground program.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s summer playground program began in 1914 when General Harry C. Trexler and Mrs. Trexler sponsored an outing called \u201cRomper Day.\u201d\u00a0 The celebration is still the culminating event of the summer and consists of various games, relay races, dances and much more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur summer playground program keeps children busy,\u201d said Allentown Mayor Ray O\u2019Connell.\u00a0 \u201cThe program includes sports like basketball, wiffleball, kickball, and soccer and activities like swimming, arts and crafts and environmental education, all of which are supervised by playground instructors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The city offers playground activities for children ages 7-to-15 at 17 locations.\u00a0 Hours are 1:00pm to 3:30pm on Mondays and from 9:00am to 3:30pm Tuesdays through Fridays, including free lunch!<\/p>\n<p>Playground registrants can participate in an end of the year field trip to Dorney Park &amp; Wildwater Kingdom and the Monday, August 5 at 7:00pm Romper Day Celebration at J. Birney Crum Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Daily participants are eligible to win free prizes at the end of the season, including bicycles, scooters, skateboards, sporting equipment, arts and crafts supplies and much more.<\/p>\n<p>A complete list of sites is available on the city website at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Parks-and-Recreation\/Recreation\/Summer-Playground-Program\">https:\/\/www.allentownpa.gov\/Parks-and-Recreation\/Recreation\/Summer-Playground-Program<\/a> or on page 15 of the city\u2019s Adventure Allentown publication.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nMike Moore<br \/>\nCommunications Manager<br \/>\nMayor&#8217;s Office<br \/>\n435 Hamilton Street<br \/>\nAllentown, PA 18101<br \/>\nMike.Moore@allentownpa.gov<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/www.AllentownPA.gov<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-START-<\/code><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<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<code class=\"code\">-AMAZONPOLLY-ONLYWORDS-END-<\/code><\/p>\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":92912,"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-92911","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\/2019\/06\/2019-parks-program.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92911"}],"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=92911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}