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 $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.” 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 26 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 years’ party will be at 6 p.m. Friday at The Gables, 3008 Carter St., Vidalia. The auction will begin around 7 p.m. Last year’s St. Patrick XXV Tom Taylor 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, and Tom will furnish the main meal and refreshments. Also at the party, we are proud and honored to present to Natchez St. Patrick XXVI Ricky Warren. Ricky will lead the St. Patrick’s Day Parade on 6 p.m. on March 17. Line-up on Main Street at Memorial Park will begin at 5:30 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. 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, where the fun will continue. Natchez and the surrounding community has a lot of Irish heritage and blood running through their veins but St Patrick XXVI Ricky Warren says its OK for everybody to be “Irish” for a day! Hope to see you at the party Friday night and at the parade on St. Patrick’s Day, and may the luck of the Irish be with you always.

 

Darren Cowart is the captain of the Krewe of Killarney