{"id":16626,"date":"2025-10-27T14:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16626\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T14:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T14:05:10","slug":"crowds-come-out-for-lower-merions-annual-open-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/16626\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowds come out for Lower Merion’s annual open house"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dara Bleshman with her daughter, Falyn, meeting Lower Merion K9 officer Geist at Lower Merion\u2019s annual open house. (Photo Richard Ilgenfritz)\n<\/p>\n

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Narberth Ambulance Crews at the Lower Merion annual Open House. (Photo Richard Ilgenfritz)\n<\/p>\n

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Lower Merion Det. John Mick is showing the police department\u2019s drone at the township\u2019s annual open house. (Photo Richard Ilgenfriz)\n<\/p>\n

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A fire truck from the Merion Fire Company of Ardmore at the Lower Merion annual Open House. (Photo Richard Ilgenfritz)\n<\/p>\n

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Dara Bleshman with her daughter, Falyn, meeting Lower Merion K9 officer Geist at Lower Merion\u2019s annual open house. (Photo Richard Ilgenfritz)\n<\/p>\n

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LOWER MERION \u2014 Lower Merion officials held their annual open house in the parking lot of the township administration building Saturday. <\/p>\n

Visitors were able to see a fire truck from the Merion Fire Company of Ardmore, police cars, an ambulance from Narberth Ambulance, and a township public works truck.<\/p>\n

There were also police K9 demonstrations with Lower Merion Police Officer Jeff Seamans and his k9 partner, Geist. The police department also got out its drone to demonstrate its use. <\/p>\n

Other township organizations including Main Line Health and Lower Merion Town watch also had booths at the event to provide information. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dara Bleshman with her daughter, Falyn, meeting Lower Merion K9 officer Geist at Lower Merion\u2019s annual open house.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,183,185,184,186,139,28],"class_list":["post-16626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626","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=16626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}