I'm going to declare Irish Fest's experiment with watching the parade rather than marching in it a success. We had a great day. No float to dismantle afterward, no agonizing wait for winners to be announced. And who knew there was so much to the parade? Having said that though, we will be back in line next year.
If you weren't there, The Star has some pictures (the first 22 anyway, at which point our local paper inexplicably moves to other cities' celebrations) and here are your winners:
GRAND PRIZE
Harris Family
FAMILY
1 Mike O’Connor
2 Reardon, Burke, Lillis, Soden, McGee
3 O’Rourke Sweeney
BUSINESS
1 Bob Hamilton Plumbing
2 Renaissance Festival
3 Sheehan’s Irish Imports
ORGANIZATION
1 International House of Prayer
2 Mid Continent Public Library Book Cart Drill Team
3 Harp and Shamrock (The Bob Reeder Fan Club)
SCHOOLS
1 St. Therese Marching Leprechauns
2 Lee A Tolbert School
3 Redemptorist Parish
BANDS
1 ACE Mighty Marching Pharaoh Band
2 F L Schlagle Marching Stallions
3 Central High School Band
DRILL TEAMS
1 Kansas City Marching Falcons
2 Gateway Highsteppers Drill Team
3 Kansas City Marching Sizzler Foundation
MEDIA
1 KFKF and the American Heart Association
2 KPRS Hot 103 JAMZ
3 KBEQ
TRADES
1 International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
2 District Council #3 Painters and Allied Trades Training Fund
3 Teamsters Joint Council #56
CHAIRMAN’S CHOICE
James B. Nutter and Company Balloon
SHOWMANSHIP AWARD
O’Shaughnessy Family
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS
O’Riada Academy of Irish Dance
Willie Arthur Smith’s Marching Cobras
Kansas City St. Andrews Pipes and Drums
Congratulations to our friends at the parade on another great event. And a reminder to those of you who may be hanging up the Irishness now that St. Patrick's Day is over: the 2010 KC Irish Fest opens in just 169 days.
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