City’s 60th Santa Parade Scheduled Saturday

By Submitted Report
The Tube City Almanac
November 19, 2025
Posted in: Announcements

(Tube City Almanac file photo by Vickie Babyak)

The city’s 60th annual Salute to Santa parade kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday (Nov. 22) along Fifth Avenue, Downtown. Parade units will begin lining up at 10 a.m. on Water Street near the Palisades Ballroom.

The reviewing stand is located at the corner of Fifth and Walnut streets. Weather-permitting, Tube City Community Media will carry live video on its YouTube channel.

The National Weather Service in Moon Twp. is predicting partly cloudy skies and air temperatures of 47 degrees for the start of the parade.

For the second year in a row, a pop-up holiday market will be held in the Cox’s Corner parking lot and the Peoples’ Building at the corner of Fifth of Walnut. The vendor fair will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and include holiday gift items, funnel cakes, hot cocoa, chicken & waffles, chili and chicken noodle soup.

The planned parade lineup is as follows:

DIVISION I
North Versailles Twp. Police Sgt. Vince DiCenzo on Motorcycle
McKeesport Area High School Air Force JROTC
Allegheny County Mounted Unit
McKeesport Police Chief Josh Alfer, Assistant Chief Sidney Summers and K9s
McKeesport Fire Chief Jeffrey Tomovcsik
McKeesport Ambulance Rescue Service Chief Bill Miller
Sen. Nick Pisciottano , PA Representative Dan Goughnour, and Allegheny County Councilman-elect Aaron Adams
McKeesport Mayor Mike Cherepko; City Administrator Tom Maglicco; McKeesport Council members President Rich Dellapenna, Vice President LuEthel Nesbit, James T. Barry Jr. Brian Evans, Jill Lape, Keith Soles, and Amber Webb
Port Vue Mayor Brien Hranics; and Port Vue Council members Ken Hresko, Mark Tortorice, Bob Betters, and Doug Jenecko.
LaRosa Youth Club
American Legion Post 527 and the McKeesport Partnership for HIV Prevention
Salute to Santa Queen candidates Ryenn Thomas (NAACP), Rakihya Freeman (MAHS Cheer), Marissa Alberts (MAHS Color Guard), and Brooklyn Donelson (MAHS Marching Band)
Salute to Santa Princess candidates Skylar Crenshaw (McKeesport Area Shared Ministries), Summer Ura (McKeesport Lions Club), Taytum Jones (McKeesport Little Theater), and Zoey Carr (LaRosa Youth Club)
McKeesport Area High School Cheerleaders
McKeesport Area High School Color Guard and Marching Band

DIVISION II
Kasyan Cycles
Striffler Family Funeral Homes
3 Rivers Model A Club
Another Shoulder LLC
McKeesport Fifth Grade Basketball with special guest Khaleke Hudson
Penn State Greater Allegheny
Mary of Nazareth Catholic School
Broadway Pizza
NAACP McKeesport Unit 2269
McKeesport Lions Club
Young Scholars of Greater Allegheny Charter School
Build N Block
Mentoring Village
Stacy’s Dog Watch and No Animal Left Behind
McKeesport Area Shared Ministry
McKeesport Little Tigers Cheerleaders & Football
Nuttall Public Safety featuring the Public Safety Hound, the Grinch, and Bumble
McKeesport Family Center featuring Bluey
McKeesport Little Theater presents “Shrek Jr.”
Carnegie Library of McKeesport
Pittsburgh Dream Center
McKeesport Area High School Amp’d Robotics Team
Red and Blue Student Newspaper

DIVISION III
McKeesport Housing Authority
Garden Club of McKeesport
Mission Agape
McKeesport Regional History & Heritage Center
Tube City Community Media
Pennsylvania American Water
RPM Autoworx
AMVETS Post 8
Salvation Army
C&D Towing
Allegheny CleanWays
McKeesport Recreation Board
Big’s Sanitation/Earthwise

DIVISION IV
Mission Specific Clothing and Flashover Fire Apparatus
Area Ambulances
Area Police Cars
Area Fire Trucks
McKeesport Ladder Truck featuring Santa Claus

Originally published November 19, 2025.

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