Faith Lutheran Church, 3355 MacArthur Road, will hold its annual Blessing of Pets this Sunday, Oct. 13, beginning at 2 p.m.

The pet blessings will take place in Parker Hall, in the lower level of the church.

The public is welcome to bring Fido or Tabby or other pets.

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The Whitehall Food Pantry, located at St. Stephen's Episcopal Church on Mechanicsville Road, is continually in need of food donations, and will need more, especially as volunteers begin preparing to assemble Thanksgiving food baskets.

Drop your donations off at the pantry or at any of our local houses of worship.

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The North Catasauqua WE SING Community Chorus will be hold its annual fall concert Sunday Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. at the Roxy Theatre in Northampton.

WE SING is a community chorus comprised of members throughout the Lehigh Valley.

This year's annual concert will benefit Matt Globosits and his diabetic alert dog, Zuker.

Matt is a 15-year-old boy from Whitehall who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes Dec. 26. The day drastically changed his life. Throughout the past year Matt has experienced many high and low blood sugar counts. However, it only took one scary low blood sugar count to make the call to Warren Retrievers for a Diabetic alert dog.

Diabetic alert dogs are trained to assist diabetics by recognizing scent and in alerting another member of the household if the diabetic does not respond.

Matt has been given a fundraising goal of $24,000 in order to supplement the cost of training his precious pup.

The entire community is invited to attend this concert.

For more information, call 610-264-1225.

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