Orange County Group Cancels St. Patrick’s Day Parade
From a Times Staff Writer
MISSION VIEJO —
Irish eyes won’t be smiling with the news that Orange County’s only St. Patrick’s Day parade is being canceled after 25 years.
Organizers say the event had grown too large and expensive for their small volunteer group to stage. In addition, attendance--averaging 5,000 people--has been disappointing in recent years.
Still, “this is a bitter pill for us to swallow,” said W. W. (Tex) Shannon, a past president of the Mission Viejo Activities Committee. “We agonized over this decision.”
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