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La Crosse St. Patrick’s Day Parade canceled

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4 years ago

March 13, 2020

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Based on Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ request to cancel all public activities, La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat withdrew the St. Patrick’s Day Parade permit for Saturday, March 14.

2020 Irish Rose and Irish Man Tracy and Patrick Mullaney said they will look for solutions to give credit for community sponsors.

“They’ve taken care of us,” Tracy said. “We will make sure everybody is happy.”

The post-parade celebration at the Freighthouse Restaurant is also canceled, according to the Mullaneys.

“The community has been supportive of all of the events and the organizations,” Patrick said. “We will work through this.”

The couple showed optimism for Irishfest to come this August.

Kaitlyn Riley

Kaitlyn Riley’s passion for communications started on her family’s dairy farm in Gays Mills, Wis. Wanting to share agriculture’s story, she studied strategic communications and broadcast journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In college, she held officer positions with the Association of Women in Agriculture and Badger Dairy Club while volunteering as a news reporter for the college radio station. She also founded the university’s first agricultural radio talk show, AgChat. In her professional career, Kaitlyn has worked in radio, print and television news doing everything from covering local events to interviewing presidential candidates, and putting back on her barn boots to chat with farmers in the field. Today, Kaitlyn can be seen covering local stories that matter to you in the La Crosse area.