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Father's Day

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Father's Day Treat: Free Dessert from DiMeo's

Andorra pizza shop offers dessert pizza Sunday.

Andorra's newest family restaurant wants everyone to make their dads feel special this Father's Day. As a special treat for everyone who loves their pops, Antimo and Pino DiMeo cooked up a free dessert pizza for all customers June 17 at Pizzeria DiMeo's. The father-and-son duo created a Nutella pizza with bananas in honor of Pino's late dad, Alfonso. Anyone who expresses their love for dad will get a complimentary dessert. Check out the YouTube video detailing the deal. For more information, view this profile on DiMeo Pizzeria.

Saturday, June 16, 2012

Picture of the Week

Pick the Winning Father & Child Picture

Tell us who should win Picture of the week by voting in the comments section.

After a week of submissions it's time for you to tell us: who has the best Father picture in the Greater Philadelphia area? All of the photos from this week's Picture of the Week contest have been numbered. Click through the photo gallery and vote for your one by leaving the number in the comments. The winning submission will get a Patch prize pack, which includes a very soft Patch Tshirt, a baseball cap and maybe some other Patch stuff, but more importantly, you’ll get bragging rights. Voting will begin at 4 a.m. Saturday and end at 9 a.m. Monday, so make sure to vote for your favorite picture.

W. E. Lunsford

4:32 pm on Monday, July 9, 2012

Number 6 . However, everyone is a winner!   more ›

Friday, June 15, 2012

Patch Picks Father’s Day Contest Winner

The contest winner gets $500. Recognizing your Dad for all your neighbors to see? Priceless.

  Congratulations to Donna MacNeal, the winner of our Father’s Day Contest and $500. This is what Donna had to say about her father: I have to say I had the best dad in the world. When he was a young man he got laid off from his job and that was it, he decided to have his own company. My father started off with a small truck picking up trash and then he made his own company. (He wasn't the biggest company but certainly the best). He gave his children everything we needed. Love, support, a wonderful home, with help from his wife of course. My dad had passed away 2 years ago now but I have to say daddy thanks for all you have given us and I love and miss you more than you know. Love your very proud daughter. xoxo Happy Father's Day!! Patch …

Monday, June 11, 2012

Picture of the Week

Best Father & Child Picture Will Win Prizes

Upload a picture of a dad and child and win a Patch prize pack in our Picture of the Week contest.

Father’s Day is only a matter of days away and we want to see local dads and their kids. Father and son, father and daughter, father and multiple children: we want to see them all. We’d love to see multiple generations. Let us know in the caption what town you’re from and who everyone is. This is the first of Patch’s summer Picture of the Week series, where we’ll be asking you for your best pictures on a certain topic each week. We’re looking forward to seeing what pictures you have to share and even adding a little incentive. The winning submission will get a Patch prize pack, which includes a very soft Patch Tshirt, a baseball cap and maybe some other Patch stuff, but more importantly, you’ll get bragging rights. We’ll be taking photo …

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Katie Ryan O'Connor

12:08 pm on Friday, June 15, 2012

Hi Melanie, Thanks for letting us know and sorry for that glitch. I've added that caption to your photo. Beautiful family!   more ›

Sunday, June 10, 2012

[Updated With Winner] Praise Your Dad, Win $500

As we get ready for Father’s Day, Patch wants to hear about your dad and what makes him so great.

Editor's note: We have a winner! Please see our updated story to read the story submitted by contest winner Donna MacNeal. Congratulations! The Patch staff wants to thank everyone for such amazing, heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud comments about the first #1 man in your life, Dad. Father's Day is days away and many of you may be wondering what you can give to your father to thank him for all that he has given to you. Gifts can be thoughtful, but sometimes it’s the words that mean more, that show you truly care and appreciate what he did. We’d like to give each of you the opportunity to tell the greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley areas why your father is so special and what makes him so wonderful. You may have a story you’d like to …

Jen L.

1:06 am on Friday, June 15, 2012

What I appreciate of my father is not only his hardwork ethic or his strong values in faith and family but mainly for his transparency as a person. Growing up, he seized every opportunity as a teachable moment for me and gave me insight to what really matters in life. He used his own life to show me that money, fame, etc., were all fleeting and taught me the value of faith, kindness and love. I …   more ›

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