{"id":35289,"date":"2025-11-15T22:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35289\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T22:08:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T22:08:08","slug":"more-than-1300-coats-collected-at-11th-annual-wfmz-and-lehigh-valley-phantoms-coat-drive-lehigh-valley-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/35289\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 1,300 coats collected at 11th annual WFMZ and Lehigh Valley Phantoms Coat Drive | Lehigh Valley Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALLENTOWN, Pa. – More than 1,300 coats were collected at\u00a0the\u00a011th annual WFMZ and Lehigh Valley Phantoms Coat Drive Friday.<\/p>\n

1,363 coats were donated at the PPL Center. More were donated and taken to a remote drop site in Bethlehem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

People donated new or gently used coats at the PPL Center in Allentown from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday. People also dropped them off at collection bins around Allentown and at the Steel Ice Center in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n

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WFMZ and LV Phantoms join forces on Friday for 11th annual Coat Drive donation event<\/a><\/p>\n

Organizers say children’s coats are in high demand. Some familiar faces were there collecting coats.<\/p>\n

Our Community Care team, led by anchor Melanie Falcon and Traffic Reporter Jen Dilliard, ensure that everyone at the station in front of the camera, and behind it, can contribute.<\/p>\n

“We just have great employees and they’re always looking for ways to give back to the community, and I really couldn’t ask for a better bunch of people. They all have good hearts,” said Barry Fisher, WFMZ-TV President and General Manager.<\/p>\n

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Generous donors to WFMZ, LV Phantoms coat drive keep community warm with over 2300 coat donations<\/a><\/p>\n

All donations will go to various Salvation Army programs. The coats will be distributed by the Salvation Army on Dec. 3.<\/p>\n

Last year, we collected more than 1,000 coats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – More than 1,300 coats were collected at\u00a0the\u00a011th annual WFMZ and Lehigh Valley Phantoms Coat Drive…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,279,805,28,7445,7446,3705,835],"class_list":{"0":"post-35289","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news","12":"tag-berks","13":"tag-lehighvalley","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-poconos-coal","16":"tag-southeastern-pa","17":"tag-sunrise","18":"tag-western-newjersey"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289","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=35289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}