By Tom Walsh —- Each year with the run-up to St. Patrick’s Day, a litany of tired old ethnic jokes is dusted off and trotted out, including the one about inviting your friends over for a seven-course Irish dinner: a six-pack and a boiled potato. While good for a chuckle now, the potato [...]
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By Jim Williams —- The task of entering a float in Cedar Rapids’ St. Patrick’s Day SaPaDaPaSo parade developed into an excellent example of the charitable work done by volunteers and philanthropic organizations and companies in Linn County. As a result of the East Central Iowa SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) Chapter [...]
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We’ve all heard it before: Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. And if there’s a country that does breakfast right, it’s Ireland. The traditional Irish breakfast — sausage, eggs and potatoes served with Irish soda bread or brown bread — was customarily made to fortify individuals for a busy and active [...]
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Here’s everything you need to know about today’s St. Patrick’s Day parade in downtown Cedar Rapids, including a map. What: SaPaDaPaSo 36th Annual St. Patricks Day Parade Celebration When: 1 p.m. Thursday Where: Downtown Cedar Rapids. Post-parade celebration and awards ceremony immediately following parade at 3rd Street Saloon, 1202 Third St. SE. Watch: KCRG 9.2 [...]
continue »By Diana Nollen IOWA CITY — Wearin’ o’ the green didn’t end on St. Patrick’s Day. It was back in full force Friday night (3/19/10) as Gaelic Storm kicked up a hooley in the Englert Theatre. Green boots, green shirts, green hair, green caps and blinking green beads greeted the popular Celtic band, along with [...]
continue »At 73, Peggy Becker Brabec has a lifetime of searching behind her. But she still has no real answers. She hopes someone in Linn County or Cedar Rapids will remember her story or recognize a family resemblance in a photo. Brabec was born St. Patrick’s Day 1937 at what was then Mercy Hospital in Cedar [...]
continue »Cedar Rapids police arrested 23 people for public intoxication, starting yesterday morning and running through 2 a.m. today, according to police logs. Six people were arrested for operating while intoxicated during the same time frame, according to logs.
continue »Thousands will descend on downtown Cedar Rapids today for the 35th annual SaPaDaPaSo parade for St. Patrick’s Day. The parade starts at 1 p.m., and it looks like the weather will cooperate this year. SaPaDaPaSo actually stands for Saint Patrick’s Day Parade Society. The parade will travel on the traditional downtown route along Second and [...]
continue »It was 75 years ago today that green beer first made its appearance in Iowa City and p0ssibly Iowa. Heck, maybe it was the first appearance in the United States. Ken Donnelly doesn’t know for sure, but he’d like to find out anything anybody might know about it. He did an Internet search and came up [...]
continue »The Iowa Legislature avoided making a big mistake. From the front page of the March 17, 1911, Cedar Rapids Evening Gazette: Special to The Gazette. Des Moines, Iowa, March 17 —The house of representatives today sent the five-mile limit bill back to the judiciary committee. This measure prohibiting saloons within five miles of a state [...]
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