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Leading the effort to ensure that this year’s fleet of floats doesnt’ run out of candy is Hellertown Postmaster Joe DiRusso, who has once again volunteered the post office–which is located roughly at the parade’s midpoint–to serve as a “candy refill station.”
In the Southern Lehigh area, as elsewhere, Halloween celebrations this year will be different as result of the coronavirus pandemic. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be opportunities for spooky-scary fun, however.
For the second year in a row, the pride of place and fun generated by the annual Saucon Valley Spirit Parade in Hellertown will be missing come late October. However, Trick-or-Treat is still planned for Saturday, Oct. 31 from 6 to 8 p.m.
In an era with strict limits on social gatherings due to COVID-19, the way to celebrate something, show support or recognize any achievement is with a drive-by “parade.”
There was a flood of emotion in a local supermarket parking lot Thursday, as area first responders held a brief “thank you” parade for staff who have been working tirelessly to help keep shelves stocked and local families fed since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
Officials from the Borough of Fountain Hill are making necessary changes to help reduce the spread of the coronavirus. Borough Manager Tony Branco said that the borough is working closely with its emergency management coordinator, and that officials are getting daily updates from the CDC and Johns Hopkins.
Could 2019 wind up being the year in which both the Saucon Valley Spirit Parade and Trick or Treat–the two main community events in the Hellertown area each Halloween–were rained out?
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.
One of the biggest events of the year in the Hellertown area is this Sunday, Oct. 20, rain or shine. The annual Saucon Valley Spirit Parade marches off at 2 p.m., and once again it will feature a fine assortment of bands, floats, fire trucks and enough candy being thrown by the people on the fire trucks and floats to fill a swimming pool.
Just in case you’re thinking that this year’s parade will somehow be ho-hum, the organizers of the Saucon Valley Spirit Parade in Hellertown want to prepare you for some fun and exciting changes for 2019.