Reminder: Local St Pat’s Day Parade is tomorrow

Calendar March 6, 2010 | Posted by Sunnyside Post

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The following is a reminder that the eleventh Sunnyside/Woodside St. Patrick’s Day parade will be held tomorrow, Sunday, March 7, at 2pm. Festivities begin at 1:00 pm.

More than 1,200 participants are expected to join the parade, which begins at the corner of 43rdStreet and Skillman Ave – and ends at 61stand Woodside Ave.

This year, many of the traditional Irish groups will be present, marching under a wide array of banners. There will be four pipe bands, dancers from the Niall O’Leary School of Irish Dance, and traditional Irish musicians from the tri-state area.

Additionally, Brian Fleming, the acclaimed Bodhran player (an Irish drum), will play with De Jimbe– a 7-piece band that blends traditional Irish music with African sounds.

There will be a variety of other groups that will march. They include:

  • The Keltic Dream Irish Dancers, a group of about 35 children (aged 7-12 year) from PS 59 in the Bronx, who are black, Latino and Indian who have learned Irish dance
  • A Haitian group from the International Career Institute
  • A group of 40 Tibetan students from the YCC & Himalayan South East Asian Club
  • Dance groups representing Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Mexico
  • School marching bands
  • Sunnyside United Dog Society, whose members walk their dogs in the parade
  • A senior citizen walking group, representing the Sunnyside Community Services
  • Dignity USA, representing gay lesbian, bisexual & transgender Catholics
  • A variety of other gay groups
  • Boys & Girls clubs 

 
Grand Marshal

Two grand marshals have been named this year: Danny Dromm and Mary Lanning.

Dromm, who was an openly gay fourth grade teacher at PS 199, helped co-found the parade and has been involved in it ever since, Fay said.  In the past he marched with his students from PS 199.

Dromm was elected as the New York City council member to district 25 (Jackson Heights) in November and assumed office Jan. 1.

Meanwhile, Lanning, an insurance executive, is the chairman of the NYC Clothing bank and is a founding member of YES!Solutions Inc., a grass roots organization that brings relief to the homeless, impoverished and ill.

 Note: Residents will not be allowed to park along the parade route after 11:59pm Saturday, March 6, through to 4 pm the day of the parade.  

For a more complete story on the parade, please click on the following link: Come One Come all

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