Those who are Irish, and those who wish they were, will have two opportunities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year. The Ticonderoga Knights of Columbus will host its annual Irishman of the Year celebration Saturday, March 10. The Knights of Columbus will also have their annual corned beef sandwich sale St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17.
Ticonderoga — Those who are Irish, and those who wish they were, will have two opportunities to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day this year.
The Ticonderoga Knights of Columbus will host its annual Irishman of the Year celebration Saturday, March 10.
Council 333 will honor a local resident at the K of C hall on Montcalm Street. The Irishman of the Year is selected by a Knights of Columbus committee.
A corned beef dinner will be served at 5 p.m. and the Irishman of the Year, a closely-guarded secret, will be honored — or roasted — at 7 p.m.
Tickets, priced at $10, will be available at the door. The event is open to the public.
Dick Liddell was the 2011 Irishman of the Year.
“It seems to get more and more difficult to keep it a secret,” Knight Ralph Corbo said of the Irishman of the Year award. “Everyone wants to know who it will be. They’ll just have to come to the dinner.”
Ticonderoga’s Irishman of the Year dinner has been held for more than 20 years. It started as a Ticonderoga Area Chamber of Commerce function and was eventually taken over by the Knights of Columbus.
The St. Patrick’s Day celebration won’t end with the annual Irishman of the Year dinner.
The Knights of Columbus will have their annual corned beef sandwich sale St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17, beginning at noon. The club bar will also be open. Sandwiches will sell for $8 each. Each sandwich will come with streak fries, cole slaw and corned beef hash.
“St. Patrick’s Day is becoming a huge event for the Knights,” Corbo said. “It seems to get bigger every year. People really look forward to it.”
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