Your Choice Voice! Voting Starts Today!

The Morning Call’s My Choice Voice Best Blogs of the Lehigh Valley contest is back for its 3rd year!

Click on image to Vote!

Voting begins today, April 5th, at noon and runs through April 22nd at 9:00pm.

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Categories include:
Art
Business & Technology, Entertainment & Nightlife, Family, Fitness & Health, Food, High School Sports, Humor, Personal, Misfits: Defying Categorization, Photography, Music, Politics, Neighborhood, Religion, News, Sports, Opinion, Style Scene

The Noise Nation’s The Horn & Bell Blog are happy to announce that we have been nominated in THREE categories!

Sports!

Misfits: Defying Categorization!

Entertainment & Nightlife!

Here’s how it works…

To vote, you will need to log in to the My Choice Voice Website (Subscription not necessary) To login you can create an account or use your Facebook, email or other online accounts. Votes appear to be anonymous and that login is a security measure to avoid fraud.

Once you log in you are eligible to vote in each category every 24 hours. So if you vote at Noon, you can vote again the following day after Noon.

We encourage you to vote every day and if you are so inclined… vote for the Noise Nation’s Horn & Bell blog in all three of the categories we have been nominated to! Total votes in all categories are compiled to choose The Best Blog in the Lehigh Valley!

Many thanks to all our readers, contributors and to the Morning Call for holding this event to recognize the bloggers of the Lehigh Valley!

Busy Saturday, March 2nd 2013

Been cold and bored? Get ready for a day of fun, food and festivities on Saturday March 2nd!

This is the schedule the Noise Nation will be following.

When: 8:30am
Where: Iron Lakes Sports Club (Click for directions)
What: The LV Steelhawks Black vs. Gold Scrimmage game!
Why: This will be our first look at the 2013 Steelhawks team! There will be players still battling for a roster spot, new team merchandise featuring the updated logo and a team meet and greet at 10:00am!

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When: 11:00am
Where: Coca Cola Park (You already know where that is)
What: National Pig Day Celebration!
Why:
Pig Roast – Beginning at 9 a.m., fans can receive complimentary pork sandwiches while supplies last.

Pig Tales in the Barnyard (12 noon to 1 p.m.) – Back by popular demand, there will be a special National Pig Day version of “Pig Tales in the Barnyard” in the Majestic Clubhouse Store. Pig Tales in the Barnyard — the popular off-season storytelling event featuring Farmer Sally — is a free, hour-long storytelling event.

Children’s Activities (10 a.m. to Noon) – The popular entertainer, “Tootsie the Clown” will be creating complimentary balloon animals. Free face painting is also available.

Self-Guided Tours (9 a.m. to Noon) – Get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the brand-new Hot Corner and Bacon Strip, along with Coca-Cola Park’s clubhouses and dugouts.

Complimentary Hot Dogs, Coca-Cola products, Martin’s Potato Chips and hot chocolate – Available from 9 a.m. to Noon or while supplies last.
Appearances by FeRROUS, FeFe and Pork Racers – FeRROUS, FeFe, Diggity, Hambone, Chris P. Bacon and Barbie Q. will all be making appearances throughout the day and are available for photos with your youngsters.

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When: 3:00pm
Where: Rascal’s Food & Fun Click for directions
What: Meet the Steelhawks and Precious Metals!
Why: Meet the Steelhawk’s team! Meet the Precious Metals Dance Team! Challenge the team and dancers to games of skill! Did I mention meeting the Precious Metals dance team?!

Come out and join us for fun or just to come by and kick DiPro in the shins. Either way, it’ll be a fun filled day! The only way this would be a better day is if the Lehigh Valley Rollergirls had an event…. a guy can wish can’t he?

OinK! Screech! Roll on!

2010 Ironpig Season Ticket Info ***Good Stuff***

Today I got confirmation that General Admission Season tickets for the 2010 Ironpigs season are NOW AVAILABLE!

YOU’RE VOICE WAS HEARD!!! We petitioned for this and with the assistance of a few great supporters at the Ironpigs we got the option to buy a GA Season Ticket!

Why buy a Season Ticket?
1. You don’t have to stand in line!
2. You get a ticket card instead of a stack of tickets!
3. You get first opportunity to purchase other tickets! (Remember how fast the concert tickets sold last year!)
4. The annual Season Ticket holder picnic at CCP!
5. Because all the cool kids are doing it..

To order your season ticket, contact AMY SCHOCH at 610-841-1222.

Let her know that you are a member of the NOISE NATION!!!

Phillies Caravan – Noise Nation History

As most Ironpig fans know, Bottalico was part of the broadcast team in 2008. Below is a short video, featuring the talents of Ricky Bottalico describing what eventually became the Ironpig’s Noise Nation.. enjoy!

Old, Young & Everybody Else

Where does the Noise Nation fit in the whole scheme of fan categories for the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs? Let’s first look at the other two categories…

The IronPiglets
The IronPiglets are the Kids Club for the Ironpigs organization. Ages 12 and under can purchase a membership for $15 and receive the following:

• A ticket to three select IronPigs home games.
• 2 great plans to choose from
• Exclusive 2010 IronPiglets T-shirt.
• Limited-edition tin lunch box
• IronPiglets membership card.
• Monthly membership newsletter.
• One Kids Zone token for each Kids Club Day.
• Exclusive member events at all Kids Club Days.
• 3 free passes to the Lehigh Valley Zoo!

This is actually a great deal. You can sign your children up at the below link:
http://www.ironpigsbaseball.com/fanzone/kidsclub/

The Silver Pigs
This is new for the 2010 season and is limited to those 60 years and older.

For $25, a Silver Pigs membership includes:
• A Limited-edition Silver Pigs T-Shirt.
• A Commemorative Silver Pigs seat cushion.
• One Field Level ticket to Silver Pigs Club Group Night on Tuesday, August 31 when the IronPigs take on the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre Yankees!
• Invitation to Silver Pigs Club Bingo Night on the Club Level at Coca-Cola Park on Tuesday, June 22.
• Silver Pigs Club Group Tour of Coca-Cola Park on Tuesday, August 3

Another good deal. Those interested can get more details at the below link:
http://www.ironpigsbas/silverpigs/eball.com/fanzone

So we’ve covered the under 12 group and the over 60 group, so what about those 13 to 60?

The answer is the Noise Nation. Created by fans, for the fans.

Give me your Teens, your Young Adults… your Huddled Masses yearning to CHEER!

• Membership is free in the Noise Nation.
• TV friendly location behind the Oink-meter in right-center field.
• Group trips to other events. (Ironpig Away Games, Philly Force games, R-Phils games)

So if you are now asking yourself, “How do I join the Noise Nation?” The answer is simple. Just show up. You can find the Noise Nation at every game, just listen and you will know where we are.

Check out the Noise Nation online.

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Twitter
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Reminder: The Horn and Bell, Noise Nation and the owners of this blog are not affiliated with the Lehigh Valley Ironpigs, Facebook or Twitter. Any cost for tickets and/or transportation is not provided for by the Noise Nation. Group rates may apply if a trip is planned and cost would be announced at that time.