Bee a Friend
About this race
🐝 Bee a Friend Festival & Parade is a kid-centered community event celebrating kindness, inclusion, and being a good friend.
Join us for a Best Friends Parade, Sensory Friendly Activities, a thoughtfully curated market featuring vendors who support the autism community through resources and lived experience, first responder trucks, and a sensory-friendly indoor pavilion designed for calm breaks and quiet time.
Registration to open at 8 AM
5K to begin at 9 AM
The Best Friends Parade will begin at Noon!
Decorate your parade group as your favorite friends (costumes encouraged, never required!)
Awards, Raffles and Prizes will be drawn at 2PM.
🎟️ Raffles will be held throughout the day, and all sponsorships benefit Logan’s Landing Project and our mission to help make play and travel more accessible for all families.
👯 Decorate your parade group as your favorite friendly duo (costumes encouraged, never required!)
🏆 Prizes for best costumes and decorations
🌈 Sensory-aware • Family-friendly • Everyone belongs
✨ Come for what works for your family and stay as long as you’d like
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Running
Bee a Friend Parade
Typical race-day weather
Based on 1 year of Open-Meteo archive data for this event's race dates in Austintown, plus the 3 days either side.
The sun rises at 7:01 AM and sets at 7:35 PM local time (EDT) in Austintown on September 13, 2026 — 12h 34m of daylight.
Course
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- Austintown Running Calendar 2026 2 races
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- Entries, prices, waves and inclusions — the event's official registration page
- Temperature and humidity — Copernicus ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)
- Elevation and terrain relief — Copernicus DEM GLO-90, ESA (CC BY 4.0)
- Comparisons and counts — Race Discovery calendar, 2 Austintown events
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