{"id":269494,"date":"2026-08-21T13:14:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269494\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:14:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:14:27","slug":"treasury-donates-1600-worth-of-instruments-to-allentown-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269494\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasury donates $1,600 worth of instruments to Allentown school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A number of  musical instruments that were part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/patreasury.gov\/unclaimed-property\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania Treasury\u2019s unclaimed property program<\/a> were donated to Harrison-Morton Middle School in Allentown this week.<\/p>\n<p>The instruments were donated to the Pennsylvania Music Preservation Society, PAMPS, which connected with the school, according to a news release from Treasurer Stacy Garrity\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from PAMP and the Allentown School District traveled to Harrisburg to receive the donation, which included a keyboard, violin, cello, eight guitars, a tom and snare drum, as well as cases and accessories. They valued roughly $1,600.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you to Treasurer Garrity and PA Music Preservation Society for donating instruments to the Allentown School District for our Harrison-Morton Middle School students,\u201d Jessika Gross, Harrison-Morton Middle School band and orchestra director, said in the release. \u201cThis incredible gift allows us to lend instruments to more young musicians, remove financial barriers, and expand our music program at HMMS. We are so grateful for your investment in our kids!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The instruments were under the treasury\u2019s care and were reported by police and colleges in the state, according to the release. When the items\u2019 owners are not known and can\u2019t be returned to someone, the treasury can donate them.<\/p>\n<p>Unclaimed property that the treasury cares for includes jewelry, coins, collectibles, contents of safe deposit boxes, dormant bank accounts, abandoned stocks and uncashed checks. More information may be found here, <a href=\"https:\/\/patreasury.gov\/unclaimed-property\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">patreasury.gov\/unclaimed-property.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A number of musical instruments that were part of the Pennsylvania Treasury\u2019s unclaimed property program were donated to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-269494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269494","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=269494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}