PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Hundreds of people gathered in Palmer Township for Palmer Township Community Weekend, enjoying rides, food and live music as the annual celebration brought residents together.<\/p>\n
For Dominic Ruggiero, the event has become a yearly tradition. He said he has attended Palmer Days for as long as he can remember.<\/p>\n
“I’m here with my family and neighbors. We usually come every year to celebrate Palmer Days, and it’s always a fun time,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruggiero said the weekend gives families and friends an opportunity to reconnect.<\/p>\n
“This weekend’s always a nice time to get together with everyone, regroup, see what everyone’s up to. And it’s just nice to spend time together with people that are important to you,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ruggiero’s family is not alone in making the festival an annual tradition. For the past 13 years, the Kfarsghab Club has served grilled chicken at the festival as a fundraiser for the organization and its community.<\/p>\n
“Kfarsghab Club, which is a town in Lebanon where we all immigrated from, our parents immigrated from. So, we do this as a fundraiser so we can host cultural events and social events for our community,” said Fahim Elias.<\/p>\n
Elias said the work that goes into preparing the food is worth it for the chance to spend the weekend with the community.<\/p>\n
“This is great. I mean, prep takes some work, but this is like an all weekend long tailgate for us,” Elias said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The weekend continues with more events, including fireworks Saturday. The final events are scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Hundreds of people gathered in Palmer Township for Palmer Township Community Weekend, enjoying rides,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,6290],"class_list":["post-265360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265360","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=265360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}