St. Patrick's Day Parade

Top O' the Morning to you all!

As true Sons and Daughters of Erin, (even if just for a day) you are all aware of the upcoming St. Patrick's Day parade on Sunday, March 16th. The NAPC will be marching in the parade along with anyone from any of the Neighborhoods that would like to join us. The Thursday Night Pedalers will be riding as well. Chip Guthrie will be driving the "Punkinator" and pulling a flatbed trailer for us to decorate accordingly. As it happens, the "Punkinator" is already bright Irish orange, so all we have to add is lots of green glittery leprechauny 4 leaf lucky clover kinda stuff to the trailer.

Chip has borrowed the flatbed and he will have it Friday night. So the decorating will happen on Saturday with final touches applied Sunday morning - because there can never be enough green leprechauny stuff on a float! The decorating will happen in the fenced in parking area behind Potty Doctor, Dixie between 5th and 6th Ave North. Please scrounge through your parade supply cabinets (You all DO have one of those don't you?) and pull out everything that's lucky, green, gold or Irish! Anything even semi related to a pot of gold or the rainbow where it hides is also good, especially since we will be decorating for the PrideFest parade a week later and rainbows are definitely called for in that parade!

Line up for the St. Patrick's Day parade will be Noon-ish on Sunday on M Street between Lake Ave and 1st Ave South (between Too-Jay's and the old Chamber Building) Look for the Punkinator and the NAPC banner. We may be able to rig something on the flatbed to allow us to hang the street banners from the Front Porch. I'll leave that to the craftier minds among us to figure out!

Hope to see you Saturday and definitely on Sunday!

Mary O'Lindsey