2020 Pittston Area graduate and baseball player Adam Penxa, standing underneath his banner, was one of 47 spring sports athletes honored on June 6, 2020 by the community.
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2020 Pittston Area graduate and baseball player Adam Penxa, standing underneath his banner, was one of 47 spring sports athletes honored on June 6, 2020 by the community.

Sunday Dispatch file photo

<p>Family and friends decorated vehicles in 2020 as they paraded past Pittston Area senior sports athletes, honoring those students unable to participate in their individual sports that spring.</p>
                                 <p>Sunday Dispatch file photo</p>

Family and friends decorated vehicles in 2020 as they paraded past Pittston Area senior sports athletes, honoring those students unable to participate in their individual sports that spring.

Sunday Dispatch file photo

PITTSTON — For the second year in a row, Pittston Area senior athletes, band members, cheerleaders, and class officers will be honored by a parade today starting at the high school at 3 p.m. and ending at Main Street, Pittston.

Vehicles will begin to assemble at the high school parking lot at 2:15 p.m. The 3 p.m. departure will head west on Stout Street, turning right onto Main Street. The parade will continue past Rite Aid on Main Street, turning left onto and continuing on Kennedy Boulevard.

All student honorees will be stationed at their personal banner located on light posts on Main Street prior to parade no later than 2:45 p.m. Participating students should not meet at the high school.

Seniors being honored that do not have a banner on Main Street are asked to stand to the closest intersection on either Main Street or Kennedy Boulevard.

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Organizers are asking those in parade vehicles to park and walk back to Main Street at the conclusion of the parade, if they wish to have photos taken with their child at the banners.

In 2020, Pittston Area parents held the first parade in June honoring all senior athletes, band members and cheer squad that were not able to participate in their discipline due to the pandemic.

Even though the parade did not substitute a sports season for students, it was well received by the community. Several hundred family and friends lined Main Street to receive the parade and wish the senior students well.