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DECEMBER 21-27, 2017
Shop with a Cop
Chief Fogel and Skyler
by HOME NEWS STAFF The Lehigh Township Police Department participated in Shop with a Cop and took local children shopping to Kmart of Walnutport for the holidays. It is the police department’s sixth year in a row of taking local children shopping, and treating them to a pre-shopping breakfast at the Blue Mountain Drive-In Family Restaurant in Danielsville. (More pictures on Page 5.)
Officers from the CRPD and former members of the United States Marine Corps pose with children that were chosen to shop.
by HOME NEWS STAFF The Colonial Regional Police Department participated in the national program Shop with a Cop, where police take local, less fortunate children shopping for the holidays. The CRPD raised $400 for each of the ten children they took shopping on Saturday to Wal-Mart. This is the 12th year of CRPD participation.
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Christmas classic comes to The Roxy by KERI LINDENMUTH The Roxy Theatre in downtown Northampton once again opened its doors for an annual Christmas tradition. On Wednesday, December 13, the Roxy Theatre and the Northampton Chamber of Commerce partnered together to bring cheer to the community. For about the tenth year in a row, the chamber hosted its annual free holiday movie at the historic theatre. This year’s classic Christmas film was “It’s a Wonderful Life.” Admission was free as long as those in attendance brought a donation for the Northampton Area Food Bank.
The line for the film stretched down the block. Families, their arms filled with bags of canned goods, waited in warm pajamas and festive sweaters for the show-
ing of the classic Jimmy Stewart film. “We always sell out,” said Renee Keiderling of the NorthampContinued on page 3
Proposed industrial park Raises traffic concerns in Allen Township By JUSTIN SWEITZER After re-submitting a plan to build six warehouses in Allen Township, developer David Jaindl came back before the Allen Township Planning Commission on Dec. 18 as the commission reviewed the plan for the Northampton Business Center, a multi-warehouse complex that would be located between Howertown and Seemsville roads in Allen Township.
The project’s projected increase in township traffic loomed large over the public meeting, as both planners and residents alike used the meeting as an opportunity to voice suggestions and concerns to representatives of the joint venture between the Jaindl Land Company and Watson Land Company. Planning Commission Chairman Eugene Clater said traffic is the primary concern of the entire
plan from his perspective, believing that nearby roads will not be suited for the amount of tractor Continued on page 4
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