MANASQUAN — Hundreds made it out to The Salty Whale in Manasquan on a bitterly cold Sunday for this year’s first fundraiser for the Belmar/Lake Como St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
Sunday’s fundraiser is the first in a series of seven fundraisers for the Belmar/Lake Como St. Patrick’s Day Parade, which is scheduled for Sunday, March 2. Drawing some 200,000 spectators in previous years, it remains New Jersey’s largest St. Patrick’s Day parade.
The fundraiser was hosted by the Women of Irish Heritage Jersey Shore (WOIHJS) and the parade committee. Chip Cavanagh, chairman of the parade committee, told The Coast Star that, much like the event itself, the string of fundraisers leading up to the parade has become a tradition…