WEST READING, Pa. \u2014 It was a busy afternoon along Penn Avenue in West Reading with warm weather bringing people out and into local businesses.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe actually have this dining area out here; we also have a nice dining area outside of Winnie as well. We want people to not only enjoy the atmosphere here in West Reading, but to obviously enjoy our food as well,\u201d said Alex Alfaro of West Brew Izakaya.<\/p>\n
From bubble tea, to desserts, to outdoor seating.<\/p>\n
At places like West Brew Izakaya and restaurants nearby, owners say days like this bring a big boost.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt definitely provides a nice boost in sales, when the weather starts changing, it not only brightens up the mood, but makes people want to go outside, and enjoy the businesses,\u201d Alfaro said.<\/p>\n
And across Berks County, everyone is taking full advantage of the heat, with softball in Bern Township.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re wearing sweatshirts and today most of the guys and gals are wearing shorts and sleeveless shirts. So, it’s a good hot summer day for a game of ball,\u201d said Sean Moretti.<\/p>\n
And at Blue Marsh Lake, boaters are getting an early start to the season.<\/p>\n
\u201cLooking forward to getting out here. It’s a nice day. It’s not really windy, not choppy. It’s very nice,\u201d said Gary Robinson of Quakertown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. \u2014 It was a busy afternoon along Penn Avenue in West Reading with warm weather…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,38170,28,128,130,129,707],"class_list":{"0":"post-167984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-blue-marsh-lake","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-reading-city","12":"tag-reading-city-headlines","13":"tag-reading-city-news","14":"tag-west-reading"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167984","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=167984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}