York Saint Patrick’s Day Upcoming Fundraisers Parade Committee Sunday, March 27, 2011 Sean Kenny Daniel Reilly White Rose Bar & Grill will donate 20% Jane Lyter Joanne Riley of food sales between 2–6 p.m. Roseanne Maglione Charlie Rupp Everyone who stops by can enter a Damian McGarvey Mary Anne Winkelman free drawing to win tickets to the Joan O’Keefe Bob Wright Penn-Mar Irish Festival Andrew Paxton Mary Yeaple May 21 & 22, 2011 Taste of Pennsylvania Mistress of Ceremonies at Wine & Music Festival Continental Square Parade fund receives 25% of Dara Rees, abc27 WHTM tickets purchased through www.yspdparade.YorkWinefest.com 28th Annual While Supplies Last Judges Sunrise Soap Company (29 N. Beaver St.) Ed Camp, Ace Distributing is donating $2 from the sale of every Eugene Draganosky, York Traditions Bank bar of limited-edition Guinness Soap Betty Bryan Fish, abc27 WHTM Melissa Snyder, Jump Street YORK Krista Mercadante Walton, MediaOnePA Saint Patrick’s Day For more information: York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Committee Upcoming Irish Events www.YorkSaintPatricksDayParade.org PO Box 1043 • York PA 17405-1043 Sunday, March 20, 2011 PARADE Gaelic Storm at the [email protected] Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center (717) 578-0146 April 29 & 30, May 1, 2011 Follow us on Twitter: 20th Annual Fairie Festival @YorkStPatParade at Spoutwood Farm When Tweeting about the parade, Saturday, June 18, 2011 please include #yspdp 11th Annual Penn-Mar Irish Festival at The Markets at Shrewsbury Like us on Facebook: (proceeds benefit Penn-Mar Human Services) March 12, 2011 York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade 1 p.m. step-off along November 11–13, 2011 Maryland Irish Festival Market Street in Downtown York at the Timonium Fairgrounds Save the Date (proceeds benefit Irish Charities of Maryland) GRAND MARSHAL: 29th Annual Check our web site throughout the York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade year for updates and information Saturday, March 17, 2012 on Celtic events happening in and around the York area Paul Kilker Many thanks to the following for Special Thanks valuable in-kind assistance: Anonymous Balloons Instead—Pat Wilson to Our Sponsors Cabot Creamery Cooperative Central Market House City of York Digital Ephemera Photography Many thanks to the following for Inside Out Creative making our new fundraiser a success: International Festival & Events Association Accomac Inn Irish Charities of Maryland Irish Edition Artistic Foods Catering IrishPhiladelphia.com Central Family Restaurant Jump Street Culinary Creations Paul and Lynn Kilker O’Shea Lumber Company JRs Fries Oxford Hall Celtic Shop Just Cupcakes Pennsylvania Council on the Arts The Left Bank Restaurant Print-O-Stat Maewyn’s Sir Speedy Sports 35 Photography Sam & Tony’s Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center Simply Soup Sunrise Soap Company White Rose Bar & Grill The Susquehanna Photographic Yorktowne Hotel Take Five Expresso Bar Turkey Hill Minit Markets VisitPA.com WGAL TV 8 WHP 21 News WHTM abc27 WPMT FOX43 Fairie Festival at Spoutwood Farm White Rose Community Television Green Bean Roasting Company York College of Pennsylvania Harrigan Holidays York County Convention & Visitors Bureau Just Purrfect Puzzles of Ireland The York Water Company KM Photography Lynn Kilker Sign language Kimman’s Gifts interpreting provided Oxford Hall Celtic Shop at Continental Square Irish Charities of Maryland MediaOnePA by Fair Interpreting LLC Majestic Theatre in Gettysburg Children’s Dental Centre New Grounds Coffee Party Belles Free wireless internet available (Drs. Dave Laughlin and Angela Lutz) Penn-Mar Irish Festival Colony Papers Seasons downtown, courtesy of York Y-Fi Rep. Eugene DePasquale Sunrise Soap Susquehanna Folk Music Society A wide variety of marketing and Fulton Bank Taste of PA Wine & Music Festival Inside Out Creative That’s Different…Chocolates volunteer opportunities are available PEOPLESBANK, A Codorus Valley Co. Turkey Hill Dairy for next year’s parade. Please call Turkey Hill Minit Markets (717) 578-0146 or email C.S. Davidson, Inc.• Oceco, Inc. • Chris Reilly Two Pups Pastries [email protected] for details. Spoutwood Farm May Day Fairie Festival York Emporium DIVISION ONE DIVISION TWO About This Year’s Leinster Division Munster Division Grand Marshal Paul Kilker was born in Reading, PA, and grew Welcome to the York Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Susquehanna Valley Mariners Chapter up in Williamsport, PA. He is owner and president (American Merchant Marine Veterans) of GGS Information Services, a local company he Dauphin County Prison Color Guard founded in 1988 and which today is a leading global York High Alumni Band Lancers Senior Alumni Drum & Bugle Corps provider of technical information services to major WGAL News 8 equipment manufacturers. City of York Mayor C. Kim Bracey Paul has lived in the York area since 1987 with Rep. Eugene DePasquale Revolution Corvette Club his wife Lynn and they are the parents of a son (Jon) and a daughter (Laurie). Flags of Ireland Turkey Hill Minit Markets Paul’s mother, Rea McKeon, was born in York County Junior Miss, Inc. Blakely, PA, with her grandparents coming from Grand Marshal—Paul Kilker County Cork, Ireland. Paul’s father’s parents hailed Docuscan USA Madison Longstreth, Miss Pennsylvania Teen USA from County Mayo and were married on-board ship York County Literacy Council as they traveled to America. They settled in Carbon- Jerry Brown (Blarney O’Shaughnessy) dale, PA, where he was a coal miner and she raised Ceol Neamh Pipe Band ten children. abc27 WHTM Paul graduated from Marist College, Pough- Brian & Chris Klimes York County Special Olympics keepsie, NY, with a BA degree in history in 1971 and Irishtown Fire Company graduated from Catholic University, Washington, DC Coyle School of Irish Dance in 1974 with a Master’s Degree in philosophy. He Boy Scouts of America, Cub Pack 25 Union Fire Company No. 1. Manchester #23 completed additional studies at American University Heidlersburg Vol. Fire Co. #25 in Washington DC. Friends of Chris Reilly Prior to starting GGS, Paul served in senior York Catholic High School Marching Band management positions at Datacomp and AMTEC, Loch Raven Pipes & Drums where he was Executive Vice President responsible Lancaster Irish American Cultural Society Tiogar Ta Siad fos Neartmhar for aerospace and automotive operations. During York Revolution Baseball Team this period, AMTEC produced the GE TOPS (Task Tom Murren Oriented Publication System) for GE Aircraft Engines 87th PA Re-enactors Association Brownie Girl Scout Troop of Wrightsville technical manuals as well as publication services for McDonnell-Douglas, Saab-Fairchild, GE Industries, WGTY-FM 107.7 York Chapter of National Organization Garrett Turbine, Mack Trucks, Inc., Allied-Bendix, for Women Volvo Trucks, and SAS Airlines. Turkey Hill Dairy York County Federation of Democratic Women Paul was recognized for his business skills in Central York Middle School June 2002, when he was awarded the “Entrepreneur Colonial Fife and Drum Corps Ni Riain School of Irish Dance of the Year” Award for Central Pennsylvania. Comery for Judge Today with nearly 30 years of technical infor- Insurance Services United mation management experience directly related to Pennsylvania Army National Guard database publishing, Paul heads a company with Loving Eyes 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy Club seven offices throughout the world and more than Tall Cedar Officers & Clown Unit Martin’s Potato Chips 500 team members. Red Rose Segway GGS has been widely recognized as among the “Best Places To Work in Pennsylvania” in both 2002 Irish Blessing and 2005, and honored as a Finalist in the Central Penn Business Journal’s “Business of the Year” The York Water Company awards competition in 2006 and 2009. BUCKET BRIGADE Paul also serves on the boards of York Tradi- PARADE NOVELTIES Please consider supporting the parade tions Bank, the York County chapter of the American with a monetary contribution at this time Red Cross, and The Marist Brothers. At Continental Square: A strong supporter of the local York community, the Kilkers over the years have supported such com- 2011 commemorative parade munity organizations as the American Red Cross, the YMCA, the YWCA, the north York chapter of Rotary t-shirts, Irish flags, beads and International, the York County Food Bank, The Salva- assorted other novelties are tion Army, The United Way, The ARC, The Special Olympics, The York College of Pennsylvania, the Eas- available for sale. ter Seals of Central Pennsylvania, the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, the Cultural Alliance of York County, and many other local organizations. DIVISION THREE DIVISION FOUR Four Provinces of Ireland Connacht Division Ulster Division Bishop McDevitt Assembly, Susquehanna Pipes & Drums Knights of Columbus WPMT FOX43 Christian School of York York City Junior Girl Scout Troop 20376 Flannelly for Judge Smith Family Springettsbury Manor Chapter of the Rabbittransit Daughters of the American Colonists Tom O’Shea for Judge The Fairies of Spoutwood Farm PA Jeeps Shipley Energy Oh! Gill’s Irish Dancers McGinley School of Irish Dance Ace Distributing White Rose Street Rod Association Bark-A-Ritaville Freestylers 101 The Rose PA Nonbelievers, Inc. Smooth Jazz 92.7 York County Corvette Club Penn-Mar Irish Festival Greater Overbrook String Band Pet Guardians Friends for Brad Jacobs 1. Leinster York County Heritage Trust Fire Museum 2. Munster John & Theresa Ruby Tidings of Peace Mennonite Church 3. Connacht Chilly Dilly’s 4. Ulster Eric Maloney For Congress WARM 103.3 The flag ofLeinster represents the counties of Carlow, CBS 21 News & MDA Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Longford, Louth, Meath, Zembo Shrine Minicar Unit Kiltie Band of York Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford and Wicklow, Ireland’s most Drive Right Inc. Auto Sales eastern and populated counties. The Leinster flag was used Black Rose Rollers by the United Irishmen in 1789 and the Irish Republican The Unorganized Fellows Brotherhood (IRB). From around the 16th Century a blue Strong for Judge flag with the Gold harp was the arms of Ireland until United Mark Sollars for Register of Wills Irishmen switched the main color to green to symbolize the Clan Walsh revolution in the 18th century. The flag is also known as the Amira Rock Publishing Arms of Ireland and was the unofficial Irish flag from 1798 Ailes Road Fire Brigade into the early 20th Century. Gruvers Bakery The three crowns on the Munster flag had been a sym- 96.1 WSOX bol for when Muster was split into three kingdoms, which Professional Actor Erik Nelson DeLorean Mid-Atlantic Club were Thomond (north), Desmond (south), and Ormond (east). Muster is made up of the counties Clare, Cork, Kerry, Elks Lodge Limerick, Tipperary and Waterford, Ireland’s most southern Music by Irish Blessing in the Lafayette counties. The Munster flag should not be confused with the Greg Gulden & Granddaughter Angel flag of Dublin, which is similar; the flag of Dublin has three Room of the Yorktowne Hotel, 3–6pm Castles within its flag. today. $5 cover; food & beverages The flag ofConnacht is a representation of the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo, which are available for purchase Ireland’s most westerly counties. It is believed the arm and Immediately following the parade ... the sword are from the O’ Connor clan, rulers of the area before the invasion of the Normans. The black eagle is said Enjoy a presentation by Philadelphia’s Greater Overbrook String Band in nearby Cherry to be from the Browns, who were a tribe in Galway city; if Lane (the courtyard behind Central Market). Learn about the history of Mummery, hear true would show a unity of both the Gael Clans and the Old English. how the band chooses a theme each year and creates their elaborate costumes, and The flag ofUlster represents the original nine counties even practice doing the Mummers Strut! of ancient Ulster and must not be mistaken as the flag of Northern Ireland. The Ulster flag is taken from the crest of The appearance of the Greater Overbrook String Band is supported by the Pennsylvania Council on the the O’ Neill Chieftains of Ulster, a clan who strongly resisted Arts, a state agency, through its regional arts funding partnership, Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PPA). to the English in Ireland. The Red Cross on a gold field was State government funding for the arts depends upon an annual appropriation by the from the de Burgos, a representation of the earldom of Ul- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and support from the National Endowment for the Arts, ster dating back to 1333 when the last de Burgo earl died. a federal agency. PPA is administered in this region by Jump Street. SOURCE: www.YourIrish.com (used with permission)