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Hamilton Mayor John Bencivengo to lead township's 2012 St. Patrick's Day Parade as grand marshal
The Saint Patrick's Day Parade Committee handed Mayor John Bencivengo the Irish tri-color sash on Friday, naming the Italian Republican as the grand marshal of the township's 2012 parade.
Bencivengo made the crucial sales pitch last year to persuade the parade committee to relocate the annual event from Trenton to Hamilton. Trenton hosted the first 25 parades, but the 26th was held exclusively in Hamilton and led by grand marshal Wayne DeAngelo, a sitting New Jersey lawmaker . . .
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THE 2012 PARADE IS SET FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 10 . . .
12:30 OPENING CEREMONIES
1:00 PARADE BEGINS [Marchers will be notified of arrival time]
ABOUT THE PARADE | In November of 1985, a small group of people banded together to organize a St. Patrick's Day Parade. Trenton had not had a parade in honor of the Patron Saint of Ireland for more than 100 years. Desmond Murphy, who was born in Dublin, and is now the owner of the 149 Club on Washington Street, originated the idea.
Initially, the group consisted of four local Irish-American tavern owners. However, it expanded to include those with the expertise to organize the event. The problem was, despite all that expertise, none of them had served on a Parade Committee before or had taken on such a monumental task. Undaunted, they decided to invoke "Murphy's Law", the one that says if something can go wrong, it will. Read more . . .
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