Have you ever wanted to join a worthwhile organization or nonprofit group but you don’t really have time for lots of meetings and yearlong events?

Well if that’s the case, the Krewe of Killarney is just right for you.

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 the day before St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 16, everyone can be “Irish.” 

We only have three events a year: one business meeting where attendance is not mandatory, followed by the annual St. Patrick’s Party and Auction, then the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

The Krewe of Killarney was organized 29 years ago to have a good time and to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an annual parade.

However, our main goal is to raise funds to help Pleasant Acre Day School and Holy Family School, and award scholarships to graduating seniors from our five area high schools.

We raise these funds every year from the membership dues and the funds we raise at the annual St. Patrick’s Party and Auction hosted by our outgoing St. Patrick from the previous year.

Eddie Walker, St. Patrick XXVIII, hosted the auction and party, then announced this year’s St. Patrick — Sen. Bob Dearing!

Dearing will lead the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 6 p.m. Saturday. Line up on Main Street at Memorial Park at St. Mary’s Basilica, will start at 5:30 p.m.

Put on your favorite green outfit (the more outrageous, the better), purchase your beads from Pleasant Acre Day School, and come on out for our annual walking parade.

St. Patrick will lead the parade with the rest of the Krewe and do his best to rid Natchez of all the snakes that have worked their way into Natchez since last year.

The Parade will end at the Gazebo on the bluff where all the snakes will be cast into the mighty Mississippi River.

Natchez and the surrounding community has a lot of Irish heritage and blood running through its veins but St. Patrick XXIX Bob Dearing says it’s OK for everybody to be “Irish” for a day.

Hope to see you at the Parade on St. Patrick’s Day.

May the luck of the Irish be with you always.

Stan Owens Jr. is captain of the Krewe of Killarney.