{"id":234435,"date":"2026-07-03T05:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234435\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:25:20","slug":"chairs-starting-to-line-the-fourth-of-july-parade-route-in-canonsburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/234435\/","title":{"rendered":"Chairs starting to line the Fourth of July parade route in Canonsburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chairs have begun to line the route for the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/canonsburg-4th-of-july-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Fourth of July parade in Canonsburg<\/a>, one of the largest Independence Day parades in all of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/you-cant-break-tradition-thousands-gather-for-the-annual-canonsburg-independence-day-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Canonsburg Fourth of July parade<\/a> will be celebrating its 63rd year this Saturday and if you&#8217;re going to be going to a big parade, you want to have a clear view and a good place to sit.<\/p>\n<p>In Canonsburg, parade veterans take that seriously and don&#8217;t take any chances as they reserve their spots ahead of time with chairs placed along the route starting 48 hours before the parade.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-02-235322.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-02-235322.png \" height=\"380\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Chairs have begun to line the route along West Pike Street in Canonsburg for the upcoming Independence Day parade.<\/p>\n<p>                KDKA Photojournalist Anthony Sichi<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just about saving your spot &#8212; it&#8217;s also about tradition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s become a family tradition, one that we look forward to every single year,&#8221; said Kelly Orrison. &#8220;The kids especially.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We started out for our parents because they were older,&#8221; said Joe Graff. &#8220;It just grew into all family and now it&#8217;s like, we end up with 50, 60 people here. We set up a grill, we cook for everybody, and all the kids have a blast.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Canonsburg&#8217;s Fourth of July events will begin with a 5K race at 7:30 a.m. and a ringing of church bells at 9:00 a.m., followed by the parade, which is scheduled to get underway at 10:00.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Because of the extreme weather that is blasting the Pittsburgh area with hot temperatures and high humidity, <a href=\"https:\/\/canonsburgjuly4th.org\/schedule-of-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">parade organizers said there will be several cooling stations around the area.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chairs have begun to line the route for the upcoming Fourth of July parade in Canonsburg, one of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[40018,73,75,74,437],"class_list":["post-234435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-4th-of-july","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-washington-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}