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The St. Luke’s Via Marathon, now a virtual event due to the coronavirus, is inviting people of all athletic stripes–from walkers and marathoners to cyclists and horseback riders–to participate and raise money to help persons with disabilities reach their full potential.
The COVID-19 pandemic has weighed heavily on many in the community, and especially on the families trying to keep their heads above the financial waters while suffering from painful diagnoses. If COB can raise $50,000 this year, it will have raised a total of $1 million for 65 families. With your help, that goal will be achieved.
The 2020 campaign will be the final installment of the Community Outreach Benefit. The organization has spent the last 19 years raising $950,000 for 61 different local families who have been burdened by medical expenses.
Saturday’s ‘Tour de Tush’ cycling fundraiser, sponsored by Center Valley-based Olympus Corporation of the Americas, is organized by the Colon Cancer Coalition to raise money to purchase gift cards from local businesses for patients through St. Luke’s University Health Network. This annual event is being held virtually Saturday due to COVID-19 restrictions.
Although the novel coronavirus pandemic is taking an economic toll on nearly everyone, families that were already in need before it began are now threatened not only by their own circumstances, but also by the added challenges faced by our local food banks.
Megan Patriarca and Nathan Orr are representing Saucon Valley High School in the fourth annual installment of the fundraising competition, which kicked off on Sunday, Jan. 12.
Emily Britland, a Lower Saucon Township resident and junior at Notre Dame-Green Pond High School, is raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s Student of the Year Greater Lehigh Valley Program.
It’s not really the time of year for thinking about swimming pools and swimming, but that’s what some volunteers from the Hellertown Historical Society have been doing.
The fire department recently launched an “adopt-a-hydrant” program in which it is asking residents with fire hydrants adjacent to their properties to clear a three-foot radius of snow around each hydrant, in order to help maintain access to them.
Car buffs won’t want to miss the second annual Star Pre-Owned Hellertown Charity Classic Car Show this Sunday, Oct. 6 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the dealership at 1730 Main Street.
