Entries are needed for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary.

Entries are needed for the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade hosted by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. March 16 in downtown Sedalia. The deadline to enter is Sunday.

South Ohio Avenue will run green on Saturday during the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade in downtown Sedalia.

Marguerite and Jim Ellis proudly display an O’Daniels Clan banner in a St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday in downtown Sedalia. The O’Daniels come from his mother’s side, Jim Ellis said. The parade was sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary. The auxiliary hosted an Irish stew and chili luncheon and an auction after the parade.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a cake walk, parade, lunch and auction on March 12.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary plan to bring a little Irish spirit to Sedalia on Saturday, hosting a variety of events in honor of St. Patrick’s Day.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a cake walk, parade, lunch and auction on Saturday. The cake walk will kickoff at 9 a.m. at VFW Post 2591 at 121 S. Ohio Ave. A minimum of 10 people are needed per walk and the cost is 50 cents.

St. Patrick’s Day festivities will take place on March 15 in downtown Sedalia. Events will include an Irish stew lunch and cake walk at 11 a.m. at Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591, 121 S. Ohio Ave.; a bagpipe luncheon from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church, at Fourth Street and Osage Avenue, $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and younger; and a St. Patrick’s Day parade at 2 p.m.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day with a cake walk, parade, lunch and auction on Saturday. The cake walk will kickoff at 9 a.m. at VFW Post 2591 at 121 S. Ohio Ave. A minimum of 10 people are needed per walk and the cost is 50 cents.

Fans of all things Irish will have to find alternatives this year to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Sedalia. 

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary will host a St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 17.

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2591 Ladies Auxiliary will host a St. Patrick’s Day celebration on March 17.

The VFW Ladies Auxiliary Post 2591 is celebrating St. Patrick’s Day early this year with a parade, cake walk, auction and other activities for the Sedalia community.

The school-age children of Sedalia like to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by pinching each other. They viciously seek out the poor soul who forgot to wear any obviously green clothing and pinch them at every opportunity. Extremely light and extremely dark shades of green just weren’t good enough; and the green needed to be plentiful. Some claim that they are wearing green underwear, but even if it’s true it only stops some of the pinching. Some children wait anxiously all year for the day in which they will have what they see as a legitimate excuse to inflict pain upon their classmates.

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