{"id":310282,"date":"2026-10-20T03:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310282\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T03:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:48:13","slug":"wfmz-lehigh-valley-phantoms-to-host-coat-drive-for-salvation-army-lehigh-valley-regional-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310282\/","title":{"rendered":"WFMZ, Lehigh Valley Phantoms to host coat drive for Salvation Army | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark your calendar for the 12th annual WFMZ and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phantomshockey.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lehigh Valley Phantoms<\/a> Coat Drive. Donate new or gently used coats to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pplcenter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PPL Center<\/a> on Friday, Nov. 13th.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be collecting jackets outside the arena on the corner of 7th and Hamilton Streets in Allentown from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Come say hi to some of the 69 News team, have a chance to meet the Phantom&#8217;s mascot meLVin, and stay for the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phantomshockey.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here to purchase tickets<\/a> to see the Phantoms take on the Hamilton Hammers.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re short on time that night, there will be a drive-thru drop off lane on Hamilton Street. We&#8217;ll have volunteers helping unload cars from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. If the evening doesn&#8217;t work, there will be drop boxes inside the main entrance to the PPL Center during the day from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The coats will be donated to local Salvation Army programs, including <a href=\"https:\/\/easternusa.salvationarmy.org\/eastern-pennsylvania\/childrens-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Salvation Army Foster Care and Adoption Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A winter coat is a given for many people, but not for everyone. That&#8217;s why we team up with other community leaders to help make sure all of our neighbors can stay warm this winter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark your calendar for the 12th annual WFMZ and Lehigh Valley Phantoms Coat Drive. Donate new or gently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,4505,157,4507,558,4508],"class_list":["post-310282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-coat-drive","tag-lehigh-valley","tag-lehigh-valley-phantoms","tag-ppl-center","tag-salvation-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310282","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=310282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}