San Rocco Festa won’t happen in 2020. Organizers of Beaver County’s three-day Italian festival, which debuted in 1925 in Aliquippa, agreed that efforts to combat the coronavirus made it necessary to cancel this year’s event scheduled for mid-August.

“Instead, we will be focusing this year on the most important parts of our celebration: the San Rocco Mass and spending more time with close family,” the San Rocco Cultural Committee Board of Directors said in a press release.