Organizers finalize preps for Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Regardless of Thursday’s climate, organizers says the Kansas Metropolis St. Patrick’s Day Parade will go on rain or shine.

“We have paraded by rain, we have paraded by snow.” mentioned Michelle Kilker, senior co-chair organizer for the parade.

Arrange went clean Thursday, and by Friday morning, the staging areas across the Kansas Metropolis Irish middle might be filled with floats and the route alongside Broadway filled with individuals.

“The Irish tend to magnify somewhat, however we do suppose it is secure to say we get about 100,000 individuals who come down yearly,” mentioned Erin Gabert, a parade committee member.

The large change this yr is extra distributors and a theme specializing in Kansas Metropolis’s wealthy Irish ancestry.

“We selected that as a result of we have now such a wealthy Irish tradition in Kansas Metropolis that we actually needed to sort of honor that, and produce ahead entries that had been going to honor that as properly,” Kilker mentioned.

Final yr was huge, however the hope this yr is making it even larger.

“This yr we simply actually need to construct on that pleasure once more,” Gabert mentioned.

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