{"id":321517,"date":"2026-11-05T05:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321517\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T05:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T05:42:08","slug":"community-briefs-11-5-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321517\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Briefs 11\/5\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dickson City to hold annual Christmas Coloring Contest<\/p>\n<p>The Dickson City Light and Banner Association will once again sponsor the annual Christmas Coloring Contest.<\/p>\n<p>The contest is open to all children residing in Dickson City who are between 5 and 12 years old. Winners will be selected from three distinct age groups, and each top winner will receive a $50 Amazon gift card as a prize. Everyone who enters will receive a gift bag and Certificate of Recognition.<\/p>\n<p>All entrants in the coloring contest will be given the special honor of participating in the lighting of the Christmas tree at the free community Christmas event, \u201cA Dickson City Christmas.\u201d This celebration will take place on Sunday, Nov. 22, at Riverfront Park, Enterprise Street, Dickson City.<\/p>\n<p>Coloring pages and entry forms can be picked up at the Dickson City Borough Building, 801 Enterprise St., from Monday to Friday during normal business hours. All entries must be submitted by Nov. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Friends of the Valley Community Library to hold fall book sale<\/p>\n<p>The Friends of the Valley Community Library\u2019s fall book sale will take place Friday, Nov. 20, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Saturday, Nov. 21, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. inside the library at 739 River St., Peckville.<\/p>\n<p>Patrons may fill a provided bag on Saturday, Nov. 21, from noon to 2 p.m. for $5.<\/p>\n<p>There will be a special presale for Friends of the Library members only on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 7 p.m. Attendees may purchase a membership at the door for $10 for an individual and $15 for families.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dickson City to hold annual Christmas Coloring Contest The Dickson City Light and Banner Association will once again&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2118,1099,201,3052,28,178,180,179,3098,3053,3054],"class_list":["post-321517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-blakely","tag-dickson-city","tag-lackawanna-county","tag-midvalley","tag-pennsylvania","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-upvalley","tag-valley-advantage","tag-valley-advantage-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321517","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=321517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}