The event will be preceded by an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast beforehand and followed by a picnic and music at a park afterward.
Now in its 56th year, Piedmont’s Independence Day parade will begin at 11 a.m., running eight blocks along Highland Avenue from Park Way to Piedmont Park. One of Piedmont’s oldest and most beloved traditions, the parade features floats from neighborhoods and community organizations, a rich array of antique and classic cars and several bagpipe bands in keeping with Piedmont’s Scottish traditions. This year’s theme is “Paint the Town Red, White and Blue.
Beforehand, fuel up at an all-you-can eat pancake breakfast from 8 to 10 a.m. at the city’s Veterans Hall, hosted by the Piedmont Community Service Crew, with sausages provided by Piedmont Grocery and fresh fruit courtesy of Village Market. The breakfast is $15 for ages 15 and older, $10 for ages 3 to 14 and free for ages 3 and younger.
Ridwell, a company that has picked up reusable and hard-to-recycle items from Bay Area homes since last year, has just expanded its pickup service to include this previously unrecyclable packaging, which also includes the bags your frozen berries and favorite almonds come in, for example. This is a first-of-its-kind sustainability program in partnership with specialty recyclers that give the materials a new life. Ridwell members together have saved more than 14 million pounds from landfills since the company’s founding in 2018, and adding multilayer plastic to what it takes is the company’s next step in the movement for a waste-free future.
In the Bay Area, Ridwell now operates in Berkeley, El Cerrito, Richmond, El Sobrante, Oakland , Alameda, Emeryville, Belmont, Burlingame, Foster City, Hillsborough, Menlo Park, Redwood City, San Carlos and San Mateo. Learn more online at
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