Have you ever wanted to join a worthwhile organization or non-profit group but you don’t 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 $25 per family or $15 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.” We only have three events a year, one business meeting — attendance is not mandatory — followed by the annual St. Patrick’s Party and auction and then the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. The Krewe of Killarney was organized 22 years ago to have a good time and to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with an annual parade, but 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 from the funds we raise at the annual St. Patrick’s Party and auction hosted by our outgoing St. Patrick from the previous year.

This year’s party will be at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at the Natchez Elks Club on Lower Woodville Road. The auction will begin around 7:30. Bob McWilliams invites everyone to the party and auction where you can become a member or just come for a good time and participate in the auction to help with our worthy charities. Just bring your favorite side dish and item for the auction.

Also at the party we are proud and honored to present to Natchez, St. Patrick XXII, Patrick McDonough IV. Pat will lead the St. Patrick’s Day Parade at 6:30 p.m., March 17, lining up on Main Street at Memorial Park at 6 p.m. Put on your favorite green outfit, (the wilder the better), purchase your beads from Pleasant Acre Day school and come on out for our annual walking parade where St. Patrick along with his “Blarney Babes” and the rest of the Krewe, will do his best to rid Natchez of all the snakes that have worked their way into Natchez since last year.

We have local pastor of First Presbyterian Church, Denny Read, playing the bag pipes and many former St. Patricks also leading the parade. The parade will end at the gazebo on the bluff where all the snakes will be cast into the river. Immediately following the parade St. Patrick will host a reception at Bowie’s Tavern.

 

Ricky Warren

captain of the Krewe of Killarney