EASTON, Pa. – Inside the Bank Street Annex in Easton, music fills the air supporting the victims of last month’s Hotel Hampton fire one beat at a time.<\/p>\n
“The community is devastated by the fire that happened at the Hampton Hotel,” said Ken Greene of Lehigh Valley-based band GruviTune.<\/p>\n
Greene helped organize this benefit concert.<\/p>\n
“This one obviously just happened and we said let’s see if we can jump in and do this,” said Greene.<\/p>\n
The money goes toward the United Way’s Easton Fire Fund which has already raised more than $35,000.<\/p>\n
Mark Nutting has called the Easton community home for 11 years.<\/p>\n
“It’s a fabulous community. People care so much about other people and you know, that’s really what makes this community so inviting to so many people,” said Nutting.<\/p>\n
“We come together and we help the people that need it the most,” said Easton Councilman Frank Pintabone.<\/p>\n
Pintabone said 67 people were displaced by the fire, many of whom have already found housing.<\/p>\n
“Everybody has a home, so we have 16 more we’re working on. Programs like this and fundraisers are going to help find homes for them,” said Pintabone.<\/p>\n
State Representative Bob Freeman said it is a city with a strong sense of community.<\/p>\n
“When a tragedy happens like it did with the fire, we come out, we support the victims of the fire, we help to make it better,” said Representative Freeman.<\/p>\n
This fundraiser is no exception.<\/p>\n
“A number of people have been doing fundraisers and some for the small businesses who’ve been effected, some for the residents, some for the firefighters. So, I think people have just taken a holistic view and leaned in where they could and this is a place where we could lean in,” said Greene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Inside the Bank Street Annex in Easton, music fills the air supporting the victims of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-139483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483","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=139483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}