The Krewe of Killarney, the St. Paddy’’s Day Krewe, is about to kick off their season. For a mere $30 per family or $20 for a single membership you can join the Krewe of Killarney!
You don’t have to be Irish to be a member but on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17, everyone can be “Irish for a day”
They have only three events a year, one business meeting, followed by the annual St. Patrick’s party and auction and then the St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The Krewe of Killarney’s main goal is to raise funds to assist Pleasant Acre Day School and Holy Family School and in addition, award scholarships to graduating seniors from area high schools. The Krewe awards four scholarships in the amount of $500 each to a worthy senior from each of the four local high schools, Natchez High, Vidalia High, Cathedral and ACCS.
Funds come from the membership dues and from the generous donations we raise at the annual St. Patrick’s party and auction which will be at the Adams County Safe Room, 6 p.m. Saturday, February 15th. The auction will begin around 7 p.m. Last year’s St. Patrick XXIX Bob Dearing invites everyone to the party and auction. Everyone is invited and asked to bring your favorite side dish, an item to be auctioned and your checkbook to help out all our worthy causes. Also, Dearing will hand over the shillelagh to this year’s St. Patrick XXX, Ron Brumfield. Ron will lead the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 5:30 p.m. on March 17. Line-up on Main Street at Memorial Park will begin at 5:00 p.m. The parade will end at the gazebo on the bluff, where all the snakes will be cast into the river. Natchez and the surrounding community has a lot of Irish heritage and blood running through their veins but St Patrick XXX Ron Brumfield says it’s OK for everybody to be “Irish” for a day! Please join us at the party Saturday night, Feb. 15 and at the parade on St. Patrick’s Day, and “May the luck of the Irish be with you”.
Stan Owens, Jr.
Krewe Captain
Krewe Of Killarney