Saturday, March 18, 2000
Bellevue turns Irish
St. Pat parade spreads cheer
BY TERRY FLYNN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
BELLEVUE — The crowd and St. Patrick were both larger and the route was longer, attracting about 150 people to the second annual Bellevue St. Patrick's Day parade Friday. With Irish piper Frank Lowden of Mount Washington backed by the Bellevue High School marching band, the parade wound through several blocks of Bellevue's residential neighborhood before concluding in front of St. Anthony Church.
Julie Heuser and her 5-year-old daughter, Lauren, were having a great time following the parade along Poplar Street to the church. Lauren used her wagon to hold the green-wrapped candy she collected that was thrown from some of the vehicles in the parade.
“This is fun, and (Lauren) is enjoying it,” said Ms. Heuser, who has lived in Bellevue for about 10 years. “We didn't get to the parade last year, but I'm glad we decided to come this time.”
The statue of St. Patrick traveled the parade route mounted on a wooden platform in the rear of a fire department pickup truck. At about 3 feet high, it was gigantic compared to the foot-high statute carried in the parade last year.
“The statue was a gift from Sacred Heart Church,” Mayor Tom Wiethorn explained. “One of our citizens, Diane Witte, gave the statue a fresh coat of green paint and designed a new beard for St. Patrick because his old one was cracked. Ed Kohrs did the woodwork for the platform and the new staff for the statue.”
About 20 members of the Ladies Loyal Order of Hibernians, Our Lady of Knock Northern Kentucky Division, marched behind St. Patrick, followed by adults and children in a variety of green-adorned outfits.
The band led off, appropriately, with the Notre Dame fight song.
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