Local favorite Bucks Run Oil returns to the Saucon Valley Spirit Parade this year with their fleet of shiny home heating oil and diesel fuel trucks. Bucks Run Oil LLC is also a band sponsor for the parade. The Lower Saucon Township-based business is owned by Fred and Rachel Magargal (FILE PHOTO). For photos from the 2018 Spirit Parade, click here.
If you want to know the order in which the participants in Sunday’s Saucon Valley Spirit Parade will appear in it, so you can get that perfect photo of someone special or cheer extra loud for a friend or relative, read on. Below you’ll find the order of participants in each of the parade’s seven divisions, beginning with the Dignitary Division.
For more information about this year’s parade, please click here.
The 2019 Grand Marshal is Joe Delfoe, and this year’s parade theme is Halloween. The parade judges are Janice Repnyek, Kimberly Verno Fleming, Lisa Johnson Scheetz and Kelly Kunsman. The parade is held rain or shine and begins at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 20.
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*Please note that although the lineup below was correct as of the time of publication, it is subject to change at the discretion and based upon the needs of the parade committee.
DIGNITARY DIVISION
Police Cars: Hellertown Police Department (Chief Robert Shupp), Lower Saucon Township Police Department (Chief Tom Barndt), Lehigh University Police Department (Chief Jason Schiffer)
Saucon Valley Spirit Parade Banner
Honor Guard: Edward H. Ackerman American Legion Post 397, Auxiliary, Sons, Riders and VFW Post 3094
Band Sponsors: DiMaio’s Italian Ristorante & Pizzeria and En Avant School of Dance
Uptown String Band of Langhorne (Mummers)
2019 Parade Grand Marshal Joe Delfoe
Hellertown Borough and Lower Saucon Township Officials Banner
Truck with Hellertown Borough and Lower Saucon Township Council Members
PA State Representative Robert Freeman
DIVISION 1
Band Sponsor: The Law Offices of Mark P. Albright
Saucon Valley High School Marching Band and the Panther Mascot
2019 Saucon Valley High School Homecoming Court
Saucon Valley Youth Football and Cheerleading
Saucon Valley Soccer League
Pitstop the Clown
Hellertown-Lower Saucon Little League & Saucon Valley Diamond Sports
Miss Pennsylvania Outstanding Teen Contestant
DIVISION 2
Band Sponsor: ABE Electrical Inc.
Easton Area Middle School Marching Band
Cub Scout Pack #349
Olde Time Farming: “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”
Ada, Cecilia, Jackson & Archie’s Under The Sea Show
J.W. Frey (1941 Dodge Truck)
En Avant School of Dance
Frank Casilio & Sons Inc.
DIVISION 3
Band Sponsor: Saylor’s & Co.
Saylor’s & Co. Float
Broughal Middle School Marching Band
Friends of Hellertown Area Library
Astronaut Griffin escorted by his Out of This World Parents
Cub Scout Pack 319
Drumming With Dan Andree
The Yippee Show Puppets
Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley
Saucon Valley Manor
DIVISION 4
Band Sponsor: Bucks Run Oil
The Bucks Run Oil Trucks
Palisades High School Marching Band
Gary & Kathy Meyers in their 1950 “Willy’s Jeepster”
Girl Scouts of America-Saucon Valley Service Unit
First UCC, Hellertown & T.W. Cooper Insurance
Cheryl Chickey’s All-American Performing Arts Center
WFMZ-TV 69 News
Finance of America Mortgage
Saucon Valley Dance Conservatory
Ebenezer New Reformed Church: “Out for a Sunday Drive”
DIVISION 5
Band Sponsor: Deiter Bros. Fuel Company
Deiter Bros. Fuel Oil Trucks
Northeast Middle School Marching Band
Jim Gardner State Farm Agent
K-F Urban Fire Co. with a half-scale 1925 replica fire truck
CO-OP Gymnastics (Kids CO-OP)
Boy Scout Troop 311
Elegant Arrivals Limousine Service
Simez Skeletwins
DIVISION 6
Band Sponsor: Farmers Insurance Wimbish Agency
Nitschmann Middle School Marching Band