Jessup<\/p>\n
Meeting: Jessup VFW Post 5544 will meet Tuesday at the post pavilion at 6:30 p.m. Members are asked to attend.<\/p>\n
National Night Out: The Jessup Police Department will hold its second annual National Night Out Aug. 8 from 6 to 8 p.m. Includes food, music, games, touch-a-truck and more. A Movies Under the Stars event to follow at 8:30 p.m. For information, see the borough\u2019s Facebook page or website, or call 570-489-0411.<\/p>\n
Lackawanna County<\/p>\n
Summer fest: The Nature Conservancy\u2019s family-friendly summer celebration, Blueberries & Fire: A Summer Fest, Aug. 2, 9 a.m.-noon, at Dick & Nancy Eales Preserve in Jessup. Visitors can participate in guided hike options, blueberry and huckleberry picking, prescribed fire education and games, hands-on activities for kids and more. Cool off with fresh blueberry lemonade and enjoy treats from an ice cream truck. For information and to register for the free event, go to nature.org\/PAevents.<\/p>\n
Children\u2019s Health Fair: The Wright Way to Wellness: Kids Edition, a free children\u2019s wellness fair hosted by the Wright Center for Community Health, will take place Aug. 6 from 2 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium at the Wright Center for Community Health Scranton, 501 S. Washington Ave. It is open to the public. Children and their families can enjoy fitness and art activities, healthy snacks and nutrition demonstrations, a backpack and school supply giveaway, raffles and interactive exhibits while learning about school physicals, vaccinations and other health resources. The event will also feature the Lackawanna County Library System and community partners, including Marywood University, Build-N-Athlete and Valley in Motion.<\/p>\n
North Pocono<\/p>\n
Chicken barbecue dinner: Chicken barbecue dinner, Aug. 15, Daleville United Methodist Church, 423 Dorantown Road, Covington Twp., 3 to 7 p.m. or until sold out. Eat in or take out. Tickets $15 for adults and $8 for kids.<\/p>\n
Susquehanna County<\/p>\n
Fair: Midsummer Fair, Sunday, Green Gables Restaurant, New Milford. Includes cornhole tournament for $25 and chicken barbecue for $20 at 11 a.m., craft fair and flea market beginning at 10 a.m. and an all-day car cruise-in. Chicken barbecue presales must be picked up by 12:30 p.m. Sponsored by the New Milford Area Rotary Club. Information: David Palmer, 570-498-6637.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jessup Meeting: Jessup VFW Post 5544 will meet Tuesday at the post pavilion at 6:30 p.m. Members are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[182,178,180,179,289],"class_list":["post-248239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-local-news","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-things-to-do"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248239","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=248239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}