{"id":209771,"date":"2026-06-03T19:03:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209771\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:03:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T19:03:13","slug":"emmaus-veterans-committee-offers-annual-memorial-day-observance-may-25-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/209771\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmaus Veterans Committee offers annual Memorial Day observance May 25 \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published June 03. 2026 01:04PM<\/p>\n<p>Press Photos by C. Richard ChartrandEmmaus borough residents and others observed Memorial Day with a special program presented by the Emmaus Veterans Committee. ABOVE: A crowd gathers at Memorial Triangle Park for the annual the Memorial Day observance in Emmaus held under gray and rainy skies May 25.<\/p>\n<p>Colyer James explains the significance of the POW MIA table.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Smith is master of ceremonies for the program held at Memorial Triangle Park in Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p>Emmaus Mayor Lee Ann Gilbert gives the official proclamation honoring Memorial Day.<\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania State Rep. Peter Schweyer, D-22nd, is one of two special guest speakers.<\/p>\n<p>Guest speaker John Fitzpatrick is pictured at the annual Memorial Day observance in Emmaus.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kavchok reads the names of local veterans who died in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Ken Wells rings the bell to accompany the names read by Kavchok.<\/p>\n<p>Press Photos by C. Richard ChartrandA 21-gun salute honors the fallen.<\/p>\n<p>Taps is played by Quinton Isom and Lily Nero to close the annual program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published June 03. 2026 01:04PM Press Photos by C. Richard ChartrandEmmaus borough residents and others observed Memorial Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-209771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209771","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=209771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}