Monongahela to mark July 4 with second annual street fair
By ERIC SEIVERLING
eseiverling@yourmvi.com
The coronavirus pandemic may have shut down most summer activities, but it won’t stop Monongahela from celebrating Independence Day.
The Monongahela Youth Main Street program, known as M.Y. Main Street, will hold its second annual Railroad Street Fair from 6-9 p.m. July 4 on Third Street between West Main and Chess streets in downtown Monongahela.
People attending the event will be required to practice social distancing and wear masks.
The fair will feature food booths, including pizza, gyros, lemonade and iced coffee, dime toss and corn hole games, street musicians and a performance by the Ringgold Harp Choir.
Homestead-based Rivers of Steel Arts will conduct a painting demonstration on an 11-foot-long, five-foot-high canvas and will teach participants how to make posters using silk-screening.
A major feature of the fair will be the Great American Machine, a device invented by Monongahela resident Dana Dolfi that features steamship foghorns, bells and whistles powered by a 5,000-pound air compressor. The machine will be stationed at the upper deck of the Monongahela Aquatorium and will play on the hour.
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