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No St. Paddy’s parade in Tupelo this year
The Downtown Tupelo Main Street Association this year has opted not to produce a St. Patrick’s Day parade downtown. Instead, the group is creating a new event called Wine Downtown.
Debbie Brangenberg, Main Street’s executive director, said board members decided that their efforts in producing the parade would be better spent on a new event.
Main Street is focusing on an April wine-tasting event, patterned after the Wine Down Main activity it coordinated in 2008.
The ticketed event will start at 5 p.m. on April 29.
Read more in Tuesday's Daily Journal.
"I see a lot more older folks sippin on wine at restaurants." Exactly! Thanks for proving my point.
Almost 2/3 of our Mayor/Merchant Jack Reed's mayorial campaign was focused on how he wants to get Tupelo more youth oriented and away from its "Retirement City" subtitle.
The ball was dropped here.
I wouldn't exactly call a wine tasting a youth event persay. I see a lot more older folks sippin on wine at restaurants.
I guess this is another example of "Tupelo trying to gear more stuff toward the youth of the city and shed their retirement city reputation."
"The ticketed event will start at 5 p.m. on April 29." ...."Ticketed" which means I guess you have to PURCHASE tickets for the event. Ummmm, if you could only have figured out how to charge admission to a Parade then I guess we could have had one.
Hope the Wine Party isnt on Sunday! lol