{"id":287515,"date":"2026-09-16T18:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287515\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T18:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T18:57:28","slug":"the-great-allentown-fair-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287515\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Allentown Fair \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published September 16. 2026 02:38PM<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA ANDERSONJoseph Veshinfsky, of Catasauqua, has a number of peppers on display during The Great Allentown Fair, held Sept. 2-7 at Allentown Fairgrounds. The theme, in celebration of the country\u2019s 250th birthday, was \u201cSomething Old, Something New, Forever Red, White and Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Veshinfsky\u2019s organic vegetables win a Best in Show ribbon at the fair.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Veshinfsky, of Catasauqua, wins third place for this display of vegetables at The Great Allentown Fair, held Sept. 2-7 at the Allentown Fairgrounds. The theme, in celebration of the country\u2019s 250th birthday, was \u201cSomething Old, Something New, Forever Red, White and Blue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Marcy Reichgott, of Catasauqua, is awarded a fourth-place ribbon for her sweater entry.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Kaczmarek, of Catasauqua, receives a blue ribbon for his African violets.<\/p>\n<p>Michele Kaczmarek, of Catasauqua, is awarded first place for her festive needlework pillow.<\/p>\n<p>Veshinfsky wins a blue ribbon for his hanging basket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 16. 2026 02:38PM PRESS PHOTOS BY SAMANTHA ANDERSONJoseph Veshinfsky, of Catasauqua, has a number of peppers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-287515","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\/287515","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=287515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}