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VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's a play filled with festivities, fun, and a small spot of luck arsenic Visalia goes greenish for its St. Patrick's Day Parade and Irish Fest successful the Park connected Saturday.
The Breakfast Lions Club volition big their 15th yearly event-- starting successful Downtown connected Main Street astatine 10 a.m.
"Everyone celebrates St. Patrick's Day. They statesman with downtown Visalia doing the parade, they spell from the parade and really spell to the Vintage Press and astatine 1 o'clock it is the Irish fest astatine the Recreation Park and that's wherever the amusive begins," says Terry Culotta, the Chairman of The Visalia Breakfast Lions Irish Fest.
Tickets outgo $50 online and $60 astatine the door.
Designated drivers tin get successful for $20.
There volition beryllium a twelve nutrient trucks with escaped unlimited beer, wine, and intoxicant tasting from astir 50 vendors.
Many of them are local, including 1852, Brewbakers, Longshot Brewery, Simply Brewing, Salty Walrus, Lake Bottom, The Blend Wine Room, and TC Hops.
Meanwhile, organizers are encouraging radical to program ahead.
"We privation to marque definite this is simply a amusive harmless lawsuit and we volition assistance get them a thrust location if they request a thrust home, we impulse them to usage a ride-sharing and oregon downtown uncovering trials, determination volition beryllium taxis, we telephone the taxi companies out, to marque definite they are connected manus and downtown," explained Terry.
The California Highway Patrol is besides urging radical to beryllium liable this weekend.
The Visalia bureau volition person other patrols retired connected the roads and downtown successful hopes of deterring DUI drivers.
"Even conscionable seeing a patrol serviceman is going to alteration somebody's mindset, oregon adjacent if they are having questions connected whether to thrust oregon not, we are hoping that discourages idiosyncratic from driving and hopefully making the close prime successful getting a rideshare oregon calling idiosyncratic to travel prime them up," said CHP Officer Adrian Gonzalez.
Event leaders accidental profits for the 21 and implicit lawsuit spell close backmost into the assemblage and are distributed done scholarships and grants successful enactment of section non-profits.
But beyond the wealth made the events are an accidental to acquisition and clasp antithetic traditions.
"To beryllium capable to acquisition antithetic cultures and spot what's going on, particularly St. Patrick's Day is conscionable a batch of fun," says Terry.
Festivities successful Visalia Kick disconnected Saturday astatine 10 a.m. with the parade that runs on Main Street from Church Street down to Willis downtown.
The amusive volition proceed astatine Recreation Park for Irish Fest successful the Park.
About 1,500 radical are expected to attend.
Tickets are inactive disposable online for $50 and $6 astatine the door.
For non-drinkers oregon designated drivers, tickets are $20.
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