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photo by: Andrew White
Crowds line Massachusetts Street to take in the Lawrence St. Patrick s Day Parade on Saturday, March 17, 2018.
Lawrence’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade was virtual this year, but the money it produced was real. Organizers announced they raised almost $50,000 to benefit area nonprofits that help children.
“As they always do, the Lawrence business community came through for us,” Janet Cinelli, co-executive director of the Lawrence St. Patrick’s Day Parade committee, said via email. “As they always do, our parade supporters came through for us too.”
If you remember, there was just a wee bit of a St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Lawrence this year. The big downtown gathering was canceled due to COVID, and in its place a few businesses decorated their storefronts for a “virtual parade.” (I can attest it was that type of year for all things Irish. My Irish coffee had virtually no coffee in it.)