Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with Parade at Gaithersburg’s Washingtonian Center
The City of Gaithersburg, in partnership with the Harp and Shamrock Society of Gaithersburg and The Peterson Companies and Washingtonian Center, will host the 12th Annual St. Patrick's Day Parade from 10 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 17, 2012 at Washingtonian Center (I-370 and Washingtonian Boulevard).
Dozens of units will march in the parade, including Celtic dancers, bagpipe bands, clowns, fire trucks, and more. When the parade is over there will be live entertainment on the Lakefront Plaza until 1 p.m.
The Grand Marshals for this year’s parade are singer, songwriter Cathy Ponton King, who grew up in an Irish neighborhood in nearby Hyattsville, Maryland, and MIX 107.3FM radio personality Robert Carson.
For more information on the St. Patrick's Day Parade contact the City of Gaithersburg at 301-258-6350, www.gaithersburgmd.gov/stpatricksparade or The Harp and Shamrock Society at 301-447-9744, www.hssg.org.
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Roy ...sounds like a great event! I hope the weather is great on that day!
Have a good one!
Sounds like a great celebration. Like Rob, hope the weather is favorable. We will even be doing a little St. Patrick's celebration here in Southwest Florida. Enjoy your day!
Roy: Regardless of the weather I know the streets will be lined for Gaithersburg's St Patrick's Day Parade.
Good morning Roy,
St. Patrick's Day in Gaithersburg sounds like the place to be - their annual event is full of fun-filled activities, with something for everyone to enjoy!
Thank you very much for your comments. The Kelleys have a bit of Irish blood.
Dolores and I were engaged to be married on St. Patrick's Day in 1965. We we have additional reasons to celebrate the day.
Roy-Sounds like a great day to be Irish for a day, my complements to Dolores on her photo!
I am 1/4 Irish but I have only been to Ireland once many years ago. But I always get a kick out this holiday and the green beer as professed as St Patrick's Day beer. I doubt that way back when that they had coloring in the beer.
Everybody is Irish on St. Patrick's Day.
Thanks for stopping by. Happy Valentine's Day!