St. Joseph\u2019s Center Summer Festival<\/p>\n
The St. Joseph\u2019s Center Summer Festival takes place this weekend at Marywood University in Scranton. The event is open Friday and Saturday from 4-10 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 7 p.m. at 2300 Adams Avenue. Find picnic food such as potato pancakes, pizza fritta and funnel cake, as well as bingo, children\u2019s games and the giant slide. For information, go to the event page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rockin\u2019 the River<\/p>\n The Rockin\u2019 the River summer concert series in Wilkes-Barre continues Friday with Hotter Than July: A Stevie Wonder Tribute. Bret Alexander & Friends will open the show at 6 p.m. Gates open at Millennium Circle, 92 N. River St., an hour beforehand, and music will play until 9. The all-ages event is free. There will be food vendors and beverages from Susquehanna Brewing Company. For information, go to the event page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Rockin\u2019 the Mountain<\/p>\n The Rockin\u2019 the Mountain summer concert series in Hazleton continues Saturday with A Proud Monkey, a Dave Matthews band tribute, and Pink Lloyd, a Pink Floyd tribute. Triple Fret will open the show at 4 p.m. Gates open at City View Park, 700 S. Poplar St., an hour beforehand. Stay after the music for fireworks at 9:45. The all-ages event is free. There will be food available to purchase and a beer tent. For information, go to the event page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Swoyersville Chicken Wing Fling<\/p>\n The fourth Swoyersville Chicken Wing Fling is Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Roosevelt Field. The event includes wings and other food, as well as sauce and craft vendors, a beer garden by Susquehanna Brewing Company and live music both days. The Hot Wing Hustle 5K is Sunday morning. The event site is at Tripp and Scott streets. For information, go to swoyersvillechickenwingfling.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Pioneer Day<\/p>\n Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train in Ashland will host its annual Pioneer Day celebration Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 1900 Oak St. The daylong event, celebrating Pennsylvania\u2019s Anthracite Coal Region and America\u2019s 250th anniversary, will feature guided underground coal mine tours, steam train rides, antique mining displays, food, children\u2019s activities, live music and blacksmith demonstrations. For information, go to the event page on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Joseph\u2019s Center Summer Festival The St. Joseph\u2019s Center Summer Festival takes place this weekend at Marywood University…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6520,201,182,803,139,28,231,178,180,179,7645,289,181,2685],"class_list":["post-249057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-hazleton","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-local-news","tag-luzerne-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-schuylkill-county","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-swoyersville","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-stt","tag-wilkes-barre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249057","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=249057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}