{"id":21979,"date":"2025-11-01T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21979\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T21:09:12","slug":"2025-veterans-day-recognition-ceremony-honoring-service-and-sacrifice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/21979\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Veterans Day Recognition Ceremony Honoring Service and Sacrifice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis program is meant to go beyond saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/news\/veterans-honored-lehigh-valley-health-network-recognition-ceremony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">veterans<\/a> for their service. Our hope is that veterans feel supported by their community and are equipped with resources that provide the care and connection they need,\u201d says Alexander Alex, Lt. Col., U.S. Air Force, MSC (Ret.), and Senior Director of the Valley Health Partners Veteran Health Program.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s keynote speaker is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffersonhealth.org\/about-us\/news\/2022\/12\/baligh-yehia-new-president-jefferson-health\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baligh Yehia, MD, MPP, MSc, FACP<\/a>, President, Jefferson Health, and Executive Vice President, Jefferson.<\/p>\n<p>There will also be remarks by Alison Pickel, Senior Vice President of Member Relations for the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, and Carol Michaels, Chief Transformation Officer of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.valleyhealthpartners.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Valley Health Partners<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Veterans will receive a special gift at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/news\/watch-lvhns-veterans-day-event\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans<\/a> Day ceremony and be formally recognized by U.S. Army retiree Marilyn Kelly-Cavotta, Special Advisor for Women &amp; Minority Veterans, Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, and Chairperson of the Veterans &amp; Military Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lvhn.org\/news\/lehigh-valley-hospital-hecktown-oaks-veterans-day-ceremony\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Veterans<\/a> are encouraged to sit with their service branch at the event. Following the ceremony, there will be light refreshments and networking.<\/p>\n<p>Register <a href=\"https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/atlas\/calendar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">online<\/a> for in-person attendance or join us on Facebook to watch the ceremony. All veterans who register will receive a gift at the event.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThis program is meant to go beyond saying \u2018thank you\u2019 to veterans for their service. Our hope is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-21979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979","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=21979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}