{"id":299900,"date":"2026-10-05T03:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299900\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T03:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T03:28:09","slug":"first-ever-billy-palooza-block-party-raises-money-for-scholarship-program-lehigh-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/299900\/","title":{"rendered":"First-ever Billy Palooza Block Party raises money for scholarship program | Lehigh County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A block party for a good cause took over the Coplay Saengerbund on Sunday from noon to six p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The first-ever Billy Palooza Block Party benefited the scholarship program for The BEST Scholars Group.<\/p>\n<p>Event organizers say proceeds will go towards scholarships for \u201cat-risk\u201d students in the area to achieve their dream of receiving a college education.<\/p>\n<p>The Block Party featured bowling, food trucks, kids&#8217; games, raffle baskets, and live music.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, three bands played at the Saengerbund Pavilion during the event, including South Penn Dixie, Roger Girke, and The Honey Buzzards.<\/p>\n<p>The event also featured a special appearance of the Iron Pig&#8217;s Mascot, Ferrous, from 1:30 &#8211; 3:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEHIGH COUNTY, Pa. &#8211; A block party for a good cause took over the Coplay Saengerbund on Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,433],"class_list":["post-299900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299900","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=299900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}