The Leader Newspaper in Spain Edition 912 – 28 March 22

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No 912 Monday 28th March - Sunday 3rd April 2022

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think that many of us won’t be too surprised to learn that March 2022 in Cabo Roig has been the wettest on record, and while the rain came as a major boost to our reservoirs and our farmers there were many for whom it was not quite as welcome.

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St. Patrick’s day parade, as we do not want to put the safety of the participants, or the spectators, at risk.” The decision proved to be the right one, and although the Irish community still celebrated their National holiday in style, the partying was perhaps a little more mute than it might otherwise have been.

Although they acknowledged it as somewhat necessary, the Irish Community But now, in a show of in Cabo Roig were hoping major generosity, the Cabo that they Roig Business might be As the number of Community is spared from floats and participants using the the wet stuff will be limited, Parade funding it had on St Patrick’s Organisers are asking raised to meet Day itself, but the St Patrick’s potential entrants to we all know Day costs to make contact with them now that was organise a as soon as possible not to be, as parade that there was no they hope will let up at all in the strong be even bigger and better. winds or the rain over that In a statement issued on period. Thursday they wrote, “The But organisers had recognised that it would be the case even before the parade took place, as 48 hours prior to the event the management committee cancelled, issuing a statement saying that they were bitterly disappointed but, “because of the weather predicted for 17 March, we have taken the decision to cancel the

businesses of Cabo Roig will never be defeated so they will hold a SPECTACULAR INTERNATIONAL PARADE ON Saturday 7th May at 4pm.” “All the spectacle of the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade will be there, along with contributions from up to 100 different nationalities. This will be the largest ever parade staged on the coast.”

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