PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The inaugural Pittston Patriot Classic 5K brought runners and walkers to downtown Pittston on Saturday for a Fourth of July race tied to America\u2019s 250th anniversary.<\/p>\n
The race, designed for people of all experience levels, began at 9 a.m. near 71 S. Main St. and looped through a little over three miles of downtown Pittston before finishing back on Main Street.<\/p>\n
Dave Bass, race director for The Pittston Patriot Classic 5K, said he and Mayor Michael Lombardo saw the holiday as a chance to create a new tradition in downtown Pittston.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s America\u2019s 250th anniversary, and I talked to Mayor Lombardo, and we said we have to do something, something fun for the city. We decided to put together a 5K. We\u2019ve had a fantastic response from the running community, from the Pittston community. I think we\u2019ll probably be over 100 to 150 runners this morning, which is great for any first-time race, and we\u2019re looking forward to making this a yearly event,\u201d said Bass.<\/p>\n
Additionally, Bass described the event as a sort of \u201cChristmas in July,\u201d with proceeds from the race benefiting Pittston\u2019s Shop with a Cop holiday program. The program helps elementary-school-aged children shop with law enforcement for gifts for their loved ones while building positive relationships with first responders.<\/p>\n
Bass added that with the strong community support in only its first year, he hopes to build on the event and bring the Pittston Patriot Classic 5K back annually as part of the city\u2019s Fourth of July celebration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The inaugural Pittston Patriot Classic 5K brought runners and walkers to downtown Pittston…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236335,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-236334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236334","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=236334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}