{"id":102678,"date":"2026-02-02T04:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102678\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T04:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T04:14:06","slug":"local-firefighters-compete-in-ice-carving-and-chili-cook-off-contests-at-the-clarks-summit-festival-of-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/102678\/","title":{"rendered":"Local firefighters compete in ice carving and chili cook-off contests at the Clarks Summit Festival of Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Clarks Summit Festival of Ice celebrated its 22nd year with an ice-carving contest honoring the late firefighter Frank Miller.<\/p>\n<p>CLARKS SUMMIT, Pa. \u2014 On Sunday, the ice carving contest returned to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wnep.com\/section\/lackawanna-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Lackawanna County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Local firefighters got to sawing through the ice at the 22nd annual Clarks Summit Festival of Ice.<\/p>\n<p>New this year, the fire and ice chili cook-off, where departments fired up their best recipes to compete.<\/p>\n<p>A fireman&#8217;s axe as a trophy, given to the winning department of the ice carving contest.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s called Frank Miller&#8217;s Axe, in honor of the late volunteer firefighter who passed away in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Frank served as a volunteer firefighter for over 60 years, was a part-time police officer in Jessup, and also a member of our armed forces in the army. We just wanted to honor our firemen. We thought Frank was a great example of service to our community,&#8221; said Billy Mulligan of Mulligan Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p>Newswatch 16&#8217;s Stacy Lange was the emcee for the event.<\/p>\n<p>She tells us Chinchilla took home the trophy for the ice carving contest, and Newton Ransom won top spot for the chili cook-off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Clarks Summit Festival of Ice celebrated its 22nd year with an ice-carving contest honoring the late firefighter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-102678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}