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for larger version       Fund Raiser Set For St. Paddy’s Parade The Queens County St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee has announced its first fundraising activity for the 2002 parade. The organization’s annual Beach Club dance will be held on Sunday, November 25 from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. at the Beach Club on Beach 116 Street. Music for the event will be provided by the Martin Quinn Band. According to Mike Benn, the event’s coordinator, this year’s parade, the 27th annual parade, will honor a contingent of New York City’s uniformed fire, police and EMS personnel. The honorees will be chosen by each firehouse and precinct in Rockaway and Broad Channel. "While we can never hope to properly reflect the pride, respect and sorrow we feel for all or our losses on September 11, this is our way of attempting, in a small way, to give our uniformed service personnel the proper respect that they are due, says Benn. The committee will also honor a selected number of members of the Irish and the Irish-American community as Grand Marshals and Deputy Grand Marshals. Those names will be released at a later date. "The committee urges all Rockaway and Broad Channel residents to attend," Benn says. The Rockaway parade is the second largest of the Irish-American St. Patrick’s Day, the largest being the Manhattan parade. While honorees are singled out each year, this is the first time in the long history of the parade that it will honors groups of individuals such as police officers, firefighters and emergency service EMT’s. This year’s parade will be particularly poignant in light of all the Irish-American firefighters, police and financial services personnel who perished in the terrorist attack of September 11.
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