The littlest dancers get some one-on-one coaching. (Click on photo to view slideshow.)
It’s now less than a week before the Philadelphia St. Patrick’s Day Parade and the last fundraiser was truly a “fun” raiser, as Parade Director Michael Bradley called it.
Hundreds paid $25 to get into the event, which featured the popular local group, Blackthorn, a silent auction and a live auction with CBS3 personality Bob Kelly as auctioneer. Some items, like a baseball bat signed by Carlos Ruiz and an on-the-field photo session with the Philly Phanatic , went for hundreds of dollars.
The parade is set to march down the Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Sunday, March 14, starting at noon. It will be televised live on the CWPhilly and rebroadcast on CWPhilly and CBS3 on St. Patrick’s Day, March 17.
For the second year in a row, the parade organizers turned to fundraising to keep the parade afloat after the city, facing a budget crisis, began billing for services like police, port-a-potties, and clean-up, that the city had covered in previous years.
While the financial situation continues to be serious, the fundraisers have been anything but.
