{"id":258016,"date":"2026-08-03T00:28:30","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258016\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T00:28:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T00:28:30","slug":"downtown-scranton-business-owners-showcase-floral-designs-in-scranton-tomorrows-annual-competition-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/258016\/","title":{"rendered":"Downtown Scranton business owners showcase floral designs in Scranton Tomorrow\u2019s annual competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"i-amphtml-intrinsic-sizer\" role=\"presentation\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyBoZWlnaHQ9JzQ4MCcgd2lkdGg9JzY0MCcgeG1sbnM9J2h0dHA6Ly93d3cudzMub3JnLzIwMDAvc3ZnJyB2ZXJzaW9uPScxLjEnLz4=\"\/><img width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/132529734_web1_2026_ST_Floral_Contest_Winners.webp\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"From left: Tim Holmes, executive director, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art; Lindsey and Jenn Saunders, Northern Light Espresso Bar &amp; Caf\u00e9; Amy (fondly known as Sean\u0092s Mom) and Sean Pietruszkiewicz, The 16th Ward; Vito Amato, Pizza by Pappas; Steve Ward, Safe, Clean &amp; Green project director, and Liz Baldi, business development director, Scranton Tomorrow.&#10;                                 Submitted photo\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"  \/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\n\t\t\tFrom left: Tim Holmes, executive director, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art; Lindsey and Jenn Saunders, Northern Light Espresso Bar &amp; Caf\u00e9; Amy (fondly known as Sean\u2019s Mom) and Sean Pietruszkiewicz, The 16th Ward; Vito Amato, Pizza by Pappas; Steve Ward, Safe, Clean &amp; Green project director, and Liz Baldi, business development director, Scranton Tomorrow.<br \/>\n                                 Submitted photo\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Embracing a patriotic theme in celebration of America\u2019s 250th anniversary, downtown Scranton business owners recently participated in Scranton Tomorrow\u2019s fourth annual Downtown Scranton Business Class Floral Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was held in partnership with the Electric City Flower Show.<\/p>\n<p>Selected by members of the community who voted online for their favorite creative container displays, winners were honored at the Flower Power Happy Hour at the Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art.<\/p>\n<p>First place was awarded to The 16th Ward. Pizza by Pappas earned second place, and Northern Light Espresso Bar &amp; Caf\u00e9 won third place.<\/p>\n<p>The contest was part of Scranton City Pride, a joint project of Scranton Tomorrow, NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania, and United Neighborhood Center of Northeastern Pennsylvania (UNC) supported by Penn State Master Gardeners in Lackawanna County and Keep Pennsylvania Beautiful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From left: Tim Holmes, executive director, Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art; Lindsey and Jenn Saunders,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-258016","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\/258016","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=258016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}