Scranton<\/a> Saturday morning for the 64th annual St. Patrick’s Parade.<\/p>\nDespite the chilly and windy weather, A sea of green flooded the electric city.<\/p>\n
“Oh, we’ve been coming all our life. From my kids up to my granddaughter here, and my grandsons and everything. We love the parade! It’s wonderful. I wish the weather was nicer, but,” said Julie Nenish from Scranton.<\/p>\n
Over 140 organizations filled the parade route. One special guest in the parade for the first time, celebrating his Irish roots.<\/p>\n
A retired Irish American professional boxer from Lowell, Massachusetts, “Irish” Micky Ward.<\/p>\n
“It’s great just to see the people here. I come down to see my friend Nathan Barrett, and I do some stuff with Nathan. It’s a great time. It reminds me of back home. I love the people of Scranton,” said Ward.<\/p>\n
This year’s president for the Scranton St. Patrick’s Parade Association is Jude McDonough.<\/p>\n
“You know, seeing all these kids having a lot of fun. The step dancers. It’s just all the energy. Everybody is out of their houses. They’re out having fun, finally, after what was a very long winter,” said McDonough.<\/p>\n
The parade route was packed with tens of thousands of people, including some from our very own WNEP team.<\/p>\n
Meghan Murray from Hunlock Creek says she comes every year with her husband.<\/p>\n
This year, they brought the family along.<\/p>\n
“Actually, this is their first year. Yes. They wanted to come out this year, and we kind of just said you have to come, and they came,” said Murray.<\/p>\n
Like many, they love watching the bagpipes go by.<\/p>\n
“The bagpipes, the cars, and I want to get a shoutout to my Local 524 right out of Scranton here,” said Hunlock Creek resident Dan Harris.<\/p>\n
From bagpipes to step dancers, the electric city was proudly painted green.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 64th annual St. Patrick’s Parade in Scranton brought tens of thousands together despite chilly weather, with 140…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-138640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}