Major layoffs for park employees.The mayor of Allentown Allentown, city (1990 pop. 105,090), seat of Lehigh co., E Pa., on the Lehigh River; inc. as a borough 1811, as a city 1867. The largest city in the agricultural and industrial Lehigh Valley, it is a commercial, financial, and government center. , Pa., rung in the New Year by laying off 20 employees from the bureaus of parks and recreation. As a result, thousands of Allentown children will no longer have baseball baseball, bat-and-ball sport known as the national pastime of the United States. It derives its name from the four bases that form a diamond (the infield) around the pitcher's mound. and soccer games, and other forms of recreation--especially in the inner-city inner city n. The usually older, central part of a city, especially when characterized by crowded neighborhoods in which low-income, often minority groups predominate. youth sectors. The mayor's decision was not the only solution for the city's budget woes. The Allentown City Council had suggested to the mayor to reduce equipment purchases and employee training instead. |
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