Kennedy Park in Lansford, on Route 209 next to the Panther Valley football stadium, will be the site for Panther Valley Ethnic Day on Saturday. Activities will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Sponsored by the Lansford Alive Events Committee, the festivities will begin with a rededication of the Miners Monument at 11:30 a.m. and include musical performances by three bands. There will also be ethnic food, vendors, crafts and horse and buggy rides.The large, salvaged stones of the monument came from the LC&N. The Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company's office building in Lansford had burned, and the heavy blocks for the monument wall were once part of that building, a Lansford landmark for more than 100 years before it was destroyed by fire in December 1975.The high stone wall was dedicated in 1976.It had been designed by the late Mike "Crow" Sabron, Summit Hill, one of the last of the Lanscoal miners.Etched in granite are the words: "This monument was built in 1976 as a combined tribute by the last of the PV Deep Miners Club to the valley's deep coal miners of bygone days and the surface coal miners past and present. It is dedicated to the memory of those men who perished in the Panther Valley mines."The west side includes the engraved names of the last of the deep coal miners. Beneath a large chunk of anthracite on the east side is a time capsule to be opened in 2076, the 100th anniversary.The wall was power washed and some overgrown bushes removed. Benches were also repainted.Jay Smar will be performing from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; 2 For 1 will provide music from 2-4 p.m.; and Rodney Clouser's Rock N Horse band will entertain from 5-7 p.m.All proceeds will benefit the revitalization of Kennedy Park.