Export Council notes: Borough moves ahead with Halloween parade plans
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The borough and fire department will go ahead with the borough’s annual Halloween parade, set for Friday, Oct. 30, but the post-parade socializing and hot dogs at the firehall will not take place this year for health and safety reasons.
Registration for the parade will begin at 5 p.m. outside the fire hall, 5821 Washington Ave., with the parade stepping off at 7 p.m.
Borough council donated $300 to the fire department to help pay for the parade.
Trick-or-treating will take place from 5-7 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.
In other borough business
• Boy Scout Troop 208 member Nathan Meyer was given approval from council to go ahead with creating four wooden bicycle racks to be placed throughout the borough, mostly in the area of the Westmoreland Heritage Trail.
Meyer’s prototype rack has been placed near the Turtle Creek Valley Railroad caboose that sits alongside the trail.
“I’ve seen it used a great deal already,” Councilwoman Melanie Litz said.
Meyer is awaiting official approval from the Boy Scouts of America’s Westmoreland-Fayette Council before proceeding with the remaining three racks.
“My hope is to get them done by the middle of November,” Meyer said.
• The borough’s federal Community Development Block Grant funding for 2020 was approved.
The grant will be used for work on Lincoln Avenue, Van Buren Street and Monroe Avenue. Council President Barry Delissio said the borough will seek 2021 CDBG funding for work to help stabilize the hillside where Fillmore Avenue meets Roosevelt Avenue.
• Work on a new, vintage-style sign for the Export Volunteer Fire Department, which will be funded by the Export Historical Society, is set to begin later this week.