Shenanigans With the Bayshore area’s biggest and best St. Patrick’s Parade on schedule for Saturday at 2 p.m. along Bay Avenue, it’s terrific to see how all the organizations in town are working so well together to ensure the crowds anticipated to gather just about anywhere along the route will be happy.
The Mayor, Carolyn Broullon, who is certainly proud of her town and its residents, will be the Grand Marshall leading it off…along with those spectacular NJROTC cadets from MAST, who are always a part of this celebration, there are too many bands, bagpipes, drum and bugle corps and other musical routes in the line of march along with Henry Hudson’s own Admirals who are simply spectacular all the time. And look for those adorable Highlands School youngsters s well!.
But while everyone already knows the Business Partnership goes above and beyond to ensure the best in the line of march, look at all the other organizations to make this a very special day. Of course, there are all the businesses and even the Food Pantry at Our Lady of Perpetual Help who will all bring smiles to your faces and applause to your hands as they march, but the Highlands Police do a sensational job of ensuring as much parking as they can make available while still keeping the roads clear for traffic for parade goers.
At Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church, the regular Saturday afternoon mass at 4 is being moved to St. Agnes Church in Atlantic Highlands for this one time event, just to ensure anyone in town for the parade can also leave early enough to get to St. Agnes for either that or the 5:15 mass which is the regular mass at that church.
But every business in town does its share and all of it with a huge smile. Look for each of the restaurants and bars to have special drinks, music, entertainment, or just plain friendly space to help you stick around and enjoy more of Highlands. Check out Gem’s, that ever popular Bagel restaurant and shop on Bay Avenue. They’re offering special deals for breakfast, late or early before the parade, as well as Take 0ut orders for friends and family. And yes, there will be green bagels, or course!
The fire police will be out on the streets assisting the police with traffic and parking control, and of course the Highlands First Aid is always ready for any emergency.
So what makes St. Patrick’s Day and celebrations among all peoples so popular? It’s probably not because he drove the snakes out of the Emerald Isle. Nor is it because he used the shamrock to teach pagans among Christs and the three persons of the Trinity. It could be because since the 1800s, nearly 10 million people have emigrated from that beautiful little island, with most of them coming here, or nearby Canada. And we all know the Irish are a talkative, bragging., happy lot…and indeed do enjoy their pint or two on occasion.
So maybe that’s it. Perhaps it’s the charm of the Irish, their penchant to enjoy good times and to share fun and laughter with everyone that makes their patron saint’s day special occasion. 
Doesn’t make any difference what the cause. St. Patrick’s Day celebrated this Saturday sounds like a wonderful time to be in Highlands, enjoy music, charm, laughter, fun, a pint of something good to drink, and appreciate a town where all the businesses, government, church and organizations can get together, put the cares of the world aside for a few minutes, and appreciate how fortunate we all area to live in the Bayshore.
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