A Lehigh Valley ice cream shop will soon celebrate both the return of its \u201cGiant Chip\u201d statue and its 17th anniversary.<\/p>\n
The welcome-home party for Chip will begin at noon May 23 at The Inside Scoop at 301 N. Third St. (Route 309) in Coopersburg, the ice cream shop announced<\/a>. High winds knocked off the top half of the statue in February, leaving him only legs until creator Mark Cline returned last month to help repair him<\/a>.<\/p>\n Co-owner Penny Caciolo, who opened The Inside Scoop in May 2009 with her husband Tony, said the celebration will feature a face painter, a station for kids to decorate ice cream cupcakes, special sundaes and the cherry-chocolate chip flavor that debuted last month in Chip\u2019s honor.<\/p>\n \u201c[Chip has] been so iconic in the community,\u201d Caciolo said. \u201cWe\u2019ve just been very pleased with the reaction and just everyone\u2019s support along the way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh Valley ice cream shop will soon celebrate both the return of its \u201cGiant Chip\u201d statue and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,60,182,435,436,289,432],"class_list":["post-186157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-business","tag-local-news","tag-restaurants-food-and-drink","tag-retail","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186157","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=186157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}