St. Patrick's Day Parade 2017 ...

The sun was shining almost as brightly as the Irish pride at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade held Sunday, March 19 in Waukon, the event taking approximately an hour to display the wide variety of well over 100 entries. As depicted in the three photos below, there was certainly an abundance of ways entries displayed their Irish pride and made their way along the parade route. While one such entry appears to have been carried along the route with a little luck from a leprechaun, it also appears that Msgr. Ed Lechtenberg (photo at right) was carrying along his own bit of leprechaun luck as he made his way along the parade route on the way to seeking re-election in the annual race for the office of Mayor of Hanover. Photos by Lissa Blake. Additional photos from this year's event can be found on Page 14A of this week's print edition of The Standard. All of the parade photos found in this issue, along with many more from Sunday's St. Patrick’s Day Parade, are available for viewing/purchase by clicking on the Photo Gallery link on The Standard’s website at www.waukonstandard.com.