{"id":305098,"date":"2026-10-12T14:26:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305098\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T14:26:18","slug":"community-donates-shoes-to-those-in-need-at-event-marking-open-house-at-fitness-facility-in-allentown-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/305098\/","title":{"rendered":"Community donates shoes to those in need at event marking open house at fitness facility in Allentown | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Community members donated shoes and socks for those in need at a fitness facility in Allentown Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees filled two boxes with new and gently worn shoes and socks for Soles4Souls, Steel Fitness Premier said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Steel Fitness Premier said the nonprofit turns shoe and clothing donations into opportunity for people in need.<\/p>\n<p>Donors earned extra chances at door prizes at the Saturday event, which marked Steel Fitness Premier\u2019s 20th anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>The facility said hundreds of neighbors, members and families enjoyed free classes, pool time, kids&#8217; activities, and a day of community celebration.<\/p>\n<p>South Whitehall Township Commissioner Glenn Guanowsky and U.S. Rep. Ryan Mackenzie presented proclamations recognizing Steel Fitness&#8217;s 20 years of service to the community at the 11 a.m. ceremony, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Steel Fitness Premier said children took part in pumpkin decorating and balloon figures, while adults and families joined classes and used the pools.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve door prizes were awarded, including tickets to the IronPigs, Musikfest and the Phantoms, as well as prizes from the participating partners, the facility said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeeing so many neighbors and members fill our building was the best way we could have marked 20 years. We&#8217;re grateful to our community, our partners and the officials who joined us, and we&#8217;re looking forward to the next 20,\u201d said Tom Fenstermacher, owner of Steel Fitness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Community members donated shoes and socks for those in need at a fitness facility in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,153,155,154,72928,125218,125217,125219],"class_list":["post-305098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-community-celebration","tag-shoe-donation","tag-soles4souls","tag-steel-fitness-premier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305098","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=305098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}