{"id":144923,"date":"2026-03-21T22:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144923\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T22:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T22:48:09","slug":"cars-and-kids-glvadas-inaugural-gala-drives-support-for-local-childrens-charities-bethelehm-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/144923\/","title":{"rendered":"Cars and Kids: GLVADA&#8217;s inaugural gala drives support for local children&#8217;s charities | Bethelehm Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Inside Bethlehem&#8217;s Wind Creek, the Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association (GLVADA) is revving up its engines.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This initiative is to help the community understand all that GLVADA does and how much it gives back to the community,&#8221; said Sarah Dams, Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association.<\/p>\n<p>It is the inaugural Cars and Kids because we CARe Gala, supporting children&#8217;s charities across our area.<\/p>\n<p>This comes amid the Lehigh Valley Auto Show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot wait to celebrate tonight. We&#8217;re going to have the community here and we&#8217;re going to be celebrating the nonprofits that are receiving their grant checks tonight,&#8221; said Dams.<\/p>\n<p>It is a fun-filled night of dancing and some pretty cool items marketing director Sarah Dams said can be yours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is our first silent auction as well to go with the gala.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The silent auction features everything from staycations to an autographed jersey by the Lehigh Valley&#8217;s own Eagles running back Saquon Barkley, and that is not all.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have some beautiful glass art, a lot of it has been donated from the Banana Factory,&#8221; said Dams.<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 people are attending the inaugural event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s come together beautifully and it kind of supports the idea that this is meant to happen right in this community,&#8221; said Dams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; Inside Bethlehem&#8217;s Wind Creek, the Greater Lehigh Valley Auto Dealers Association (GLVADA) is revving up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,1391],"class_list":["post-144923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144923","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=144923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}