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Fifty Years of Marching Together 1952-2001: A Social History of the St. Patrick's Committee of Holyoke, Massachusetts Parade. Westhampton, Mass.: Edgar C. Alward & Jean A. Alward; Esparto Press. Past Parades (1952–2001) (PDF) (Report). Holyoke St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee. 2001. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 24, 2019.
Since 2014, every September the Parade Committee has held the Halfway 5K Run, marking the six months before the next parade, and the better-known 10k, the Holyoke St. Patrick's Day Road Race. Hosted annually the day before the parade since 1975, it has been called by Olympian John Treacy "a miniature Boston", had a record 6,800 contestants ...
An Irish population in this cluster of Midwestern cities hosts an St. Patrick's Day parade. It is "the only bi-state St. Patrick's Day Parade in the USA", according to the St. Patrick's Day Society of the Quad Cities, [108] crossing the Centennial Bridge from Rock Island, Illinois into Davenport, Iowa. Being so close to Chicago, this parade ...
[183] [better source needed] Held annually since 1952 on the Sunday following St. Patrick's Day, the parade draws hundreds of thousands of people from across New England and the Eastern seaboard of United States. In recent years the Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade typically attracts 350,000 to 450,000 people each year. [184]
Providence Health Systems was established by the Sisters of Providence of Holyoke in 1984. In 1998, Providence Health of Holyoke, Massachusetts merged with Allegany Health System and Eastern Mercy Health System in Radnor, Pennsylvania to form "Catholic Health East", which has 23 hospitals from Maine to Florida and was the eighth-highest-grossing hospital chain in the nation.
March 23: The first annual Holyoke Saint Patrick's Day Parade is held; following a period of absence since a previous parade celebration in 1901. [137] April 27: The Soldiers' Home in Holyoke is dedicated by Governor Paul A. Dever, and former AMVETS national commander Harold Russell, before a crowd of 15,000. [138]
Her inspirational words in the essay, has earned her a $277,720 scholarship over four years to Mount Holyoke College, in South Hadley, Massachusetts. According to the school's website , the ...
Holyoke Medical Center, formerly known as Holyoke City Hospital, is a full-service, community and regional non-profit medical center located in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Holyoke Medical has 198 beds in the main hospital and runs a comprehensive healthcare system that includes the VNA, River Valley Counseling Center and Western Mass Physician ...