{"id":56661,"date":"2025-12-09T23:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56661\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:15:08","slug":"stuff-the-bus-begins-5th-year-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/56661\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Stuff the Bus\u2019 begins 5th year \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published December 09. 2025 05:45PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Bethlehem Area School District transportation department\u2019s bus drivers kicked off their fifth annual \u2018Stuff the Bus\u2019 campaign on Black Friday with collection points at both the Bethlehem Square shopping center on Linden Street and at Christkindlmarkt on the SteelStacks campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Items being collected include new toys for the Marine Corps Reserve\u2019s \u2018Toys for Tots\u2019 initiative, nonperishable food items for local food pantries, personal hygiene items, school supplies, new children\u2019s coats and cold weather accessories and cash donations, according to \u2018Stuff the Bus\u2019 coordinator Brenda Sciascia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Collections will continue on Saturdays and Sundays through Dec. 21 at both locations from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Monday\/Tuesday on Dec. 22 and 23 at Bethlehem Square only from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., weather permitting.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY DANA GRUBBBASD transportation drivers Lisa Sommers and Brenda Sciascia are joined by Harleigh and USMC SSgt. Garrett Shewbridge at the Bethlehem Square shopping center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 09. 2025 05:45PM The Bethlehem Area School District transportation department\u2019s bus drivers kicked off their fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-56661","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56661","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=56661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}