Neither snow piles nor COVID can thwart 100th birthday celebration in Phillipsburg (PHOTOS) Updated Feb 13, 2021; Facebook Share Verna Robinson’s family generally likes to gather all her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren together to celebrate her birthday, but not this year because of the coronavirus. It just so happens, though, that this year’s big day on Saturday is a major milestone: triple digits, 100, a century. So like many families across the Lehigh Valley region and beyond, her loved ones arranged for a socially distanced birthday parade past the lifelong Phillipsburg resident’s home. Not even the piles of snow lingering from the near-record snowfall that ushered in February could keep the family away, though this year is their first to have to celebrate from a distance.