BETHLEHEM, Pa. –\u00a0The Bethlehem Police Department is giving back to the community in a different way Tuesday, serving up an early Thanksgiving dinner at New Bethany Ministries.<\/p>\n
Some of the officers who were there Tuesday were cooking since around 1:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
They organize the\u00a0event every year to make sure everybody in Bethlehem gets a real Thanksgiving meal.<\/p>\n
Starting at 10:30 a.m., they were serving up turkey, ham, green beans, potatoes, and gravy. And the meal even featured dozens of pies cooked up by students at Broughal Middle School.<\/p>\n
Officer William Rodriguez says it’s a meal they’ve been organizing at New Bethany every year since 2016.<\/p>\n
“There’s a lot of coordination here, but with everybody’s help and everybody putting forth effort, it makes it really easy,”\u00a0Rodriguez said.<\/p>\n
Rodriguez says several companies and organizations also provide the food and supplies to make the meal possible.<\/p>\n
The people who receive the meals tell us this is something they look forward to every year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. –\u00a0The Bethlehem Police Department is giving back to the community in a different way Tuesday, serving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-44362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44362","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=44362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}