Published July 28. 2026 01:36PM<\/p>\n
What happens when the Bethlehem Police Department, Connell Funeral Home and the Bethlehem Dairy Store form a partnership? You get a new initiative called \u201cCaught Doing Good\u201d whereby Bethlehem police officers on patrol throughout the city will \u2018cite\u2019 kids that they observe \u201cdemonstrating kindness, respect, responsibility and other acts of good character\u201d by presenting them with a voucher for free ice cream.<\/p>\n
The vouchers can then be redeemed at either Bethlehem Dairy Store location, at the Northside Linden Street store or the Southside Farrington Square store.<\/p>\n
The initiative kicked off July 8 in Bethlehem Police Chief Michelle Kott\u2019s office at city hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe it\u2019s important to recognize and celebrate the good happening in our community every day,\u201d said John Connell. \u201cBy partnering with the Bethlehem Police Department and Bethlehem Dairy Store we hope to create positive interactions and lasting impressions for our youth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Kott said, \u201cWe are so stoked to participate and it\u2019s an excellent opportunity to build partnerships with the kids in our community. We were on board from the get-go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bill Burkhardt, co-owner of the Bethlehem Dairy Store, said, \u201cWe always enjoy doing community things, so we\u2019re looking forward to this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Connell says that Connell Funeral Home co-president Jaime Connell got the idea when he came across a similar program running elsewhere, so they approached their partners at the police department and dairy store to do it locally. \u201cCaught Doing Good\u201d reflects Connell Funeral Home\u2019s ongoing mission to make a meaningful difference according to their press release.<\/p>\n
PRESS PHOTOS BY DANA GRUBBDeputy Police Chief Scott Meixell, police chief Michelle Kott, Connel Funeral Home supervisor John Connell and Connell Funeral Home co-president Matthew Connell met July 8 to kick off the \u201cCaught Doing Good\u201d initiative.<\/p>\n
Kids who receive the \u201cCaught Doing Good\u201d card from a Bethlehem police officer are entitled to a free ice cream cone at either the Bethlehem Dairy Store\u2019s Southside Farrington Square location or their Linden Street location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published July 28. 2026 01:36PM What happens when the Bethlehem Police Department, Connell Funeral Home and the Bethlehem…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-253907","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\/253907","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=253907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}