COVINGTON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Annual Fireman\u2019s Picnic is underway in Covington Township, bringing several days of food, rides, games and entertainment to the community.<\/p>\n
Brad Jones, fire chief of the Covington Township Volunteer Fire Department, said the picnic has been running for several decades and remains a major fundraiser for the department.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this is as much for the community as it is for us. Obviously, it\u2019s our biggest fundraiser, but it gets the community together, and you\u2019ll see the turnout is fantastic. All the proceeds go to the fire company to help us with gear, training, equipment, those types of things. It\u2019s not getting any cheaper to be a fire department, and this really helps us out. Like I said, it\u2019s our largest fundraiser. Without this, we wouldn\u2019t be able to operate,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n
The picnic continues through Saturday at 452 Daleville Highway. Ride-all-night wristbands are $27 through Friday and $32 Saturday. Golf ball drop tickets are $5 with a chance to win $1,000.<\/p>\n
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The Fireman\u2019s Parade is scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday. Friday will feature Golf Ball Drop No. 1, and Saturday\u2019s schedule includes Golf Ball Drop No. 2 and fireworks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COVINGTON TOWNSHIP, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 The Annual Fireman\u2019s Picnic is underway in Covington Township, bringing several days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":239324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-239323","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\/239323","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=239323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}