St. Patrick's Day Parade

The Wearing of the Green in 2003
It looks like 23 cars along with their drivers appeared from the dark of their garages for the annual St. Patrick's Day Parade. This was a great turnout on a day that looked like rain was on the way. The parade had a new route this year but many of the other features remained the same. The new route took the parade through Gateway. The meeting place was north and west of downtown, and made use of several large parking lots. This improved the access and allowed room for the group to form up, but took us away from coffee and breakfast.

The parade started, more or less, on time, 10:00 AM, but it was near 11:30 before we moved out. Way ahead of us was the Mini Club, about 30 to 40 cars, all sorted by color and with numbers to indicate where in the formation each car was to be located. The Land Rover Club as also ahead of us, but from the conversation around me most people thought they were Toyota Land Cruisers. The run down the course was uneventful, although the road in Gateway is very narrow and kids always seemed to be about to run out in front of the car. From Gateway the route made its way over to 3rd West and 2nd South where everyone broke up.

Many of us gathered at Granato's for lunch and then headed home to wash out the green hair dye.

Taking part were: Marty Van Nood and Terri Kaufman; Sharon & Mike Bailey; Stan & MaryAnn Jenkins, Steve Nelson along with Megan, Abby & Ivy Palfreyman and Alden & Kenzie Long; Scott & Lauren McAllister and Keatlee O'Toole; Bill Walton; Kent & Kaye Thomas; David & Carol Marks; Wade & Alice Ashby; Brad, Nancy & Amy Parkin; Lexi & Sam Wheeler; Nicholas & Nick Nichols; Floyd Inman; Dan & Sharon Forster; Doug Wimer; Chris Shell; Jon & Susan Hermance; Gary, Sandy, Margaux Lindstrom & Robert Kedziereski; Ron Christensen; and Brent Anderson.

Pictures were taken by Gary Lindstrom.

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