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STAPLES OF THE BUTTE ST. PATRICK’S DAY PARADE, the Pipe and Drum Band of the Edmonton Police Service parade in front of the Silver Bow Courthouse during last year’s St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

Edmonton pipers staple of St. Pat’s he Pipe and Drum Band of the Edmonton Police Service returns to Butte once again for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration.

The popular pipe and drum band from Edmonton, Alberta, will arrive in Butte on Monday, March 15, and perform at many locations throughout Butte through March 17.

The following is where they can be found around Butte during their visit:

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MONDAY MARCH 15 Time TBA — Perform at Southwest Montana All-Star Game, Montana Tech HPER. 8 p.m. — Night with the Pipers at the Acoma. Call 593-5545 for details.

TUESDAY MARCH 16 10:30 a.m. — Big Sky Living, 3100 Elizabeth Warren.

11:00 a.m. — Marquis Vintage Suites, 300 Mount Highland Drive.

12 p.m. — Lunch with the Pipers, War Bonnet Hotel, 2100 Cornell.

2 p.m. — BSB Courthouse, 155 W. Granite.

3 p.m. — Butte Plaza Mall, 3100 Harrison Ave. 4:30 p.m. — Magic Diamond Casino, 3700 Harrison Ave. 6 p.m. — Deluxe Bar, 823 Front St. 8 p.m. — Shillelegh Shindig at McQueen Club, 3250 Hecla.

9:30 p.m. — Silver Dollar Saloon, 133 S Main St. 11 p.m. — War Bonnet Hotel, 2100 Cornell.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 17 9 a.m. — West Elementary, S. Emmett & Steele.

11 a.m. — St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Uptown Butte.

1:30 p.m. — Gold Rush Casino, 22 West Galena.

3:30 p.m. — Sam’s Place, 905 N. Excelsior.

5 p.m. — Metals Sports Bar & Grill, 8 West Park.

6:30 p.m. — The Depot, 818 S Arizona.

8 p.m. — Jims Bar, 2720 Elm St. 9:30 p.m. — McQueen Club, 3250 Hecla.

11 p.m. — War Bonnet Hotel, 2100 Cornell.

Mainstreet Uptown Butte is accepting contributions to help cover travel and lodging expenses for the Pipers’ visit to Butte. Tax-deductible donations can be sent to Friends of the Pipers, P.O Box 696, Butte, MT 59703.

For more details, call 593-5545.

SCHEDULE OF EVENTS St. Patrick’s Day Brunch St. Parick’s Day events kick off today with the annual brunch at the War Bonnet Hotel.

Starting at 12:30 p.m., the event is sponsored by the Butte Catholic Community North. Master of Ceremonies is Dan Kelly and Guest Speaker is the Rev. Frank Wright.

Cost is $15 for adults, $7.50 children under 10 years old.

Tickets are available from the unit office 102 S. Washington or call 723-5407 or 782-4101.

No tickets will be sold at the door.

Blarney Stone Fun Run The Duggan Dolan Blarney Stone Fun Run is also on Sunday with a 3-mile race for serious runners, a kids’ race of about a mile and a walk for non-runners. Registration begins at noon at the Knights of Columbus hall on West Park Street.

The kids’ race starts at 2 p.m., followed by the mian race at 2:30 p.m. The race route is south on Montana Street, east on Front Street to a blarney stone in front of the Deluxe Bar. T-shirts, along with medals and ribbons for the winners are supplied

by Duggan Dolan Mortuary, which sponsors the run.

After the race, the Gathering of the Clans will be held at the Knights of Columbus. The Butte High History Club will offer activities for kids and there will be live entertainment throuthout the afternoon.

Admission is free.

Friendly Sons dinner On Tuesday, March 16, the Friendly Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick welcome in the spring — as they have for more than 100 years — with an annual dinner in Butte.

The 102nd annual dinner will be at the War Bonnet Hotel, 2100 Cornell Ave., with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and costs $25 per person. Tickets are available at the War Bonnet Hotel, Cavanaugh’s Country Celtic, or from Bubba Maloney, president of Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick, at 490-8661.

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DECKED OUT in Irish garb, Lois Cherne of Butte watches the parade on last year’s St. Patrick’s Day.

50/50, live music and more.

There is no charge for admission, but donations are welcomed.

Music is by “Jacob’s Pillow,�

Montana’s favorite Democrat Ensemble from Helena featuring Butte native Mark Piskolich.

The Edmonton Bagpipers are scheduled to arrive around 8 p.m.

Candidates for office and elected officials are encouraged to attend and bring a liquor bottle donation for the raffle.

Call Barb at 310-0638 for details about the Shindig, or Josh at 498-4870 for details about the Butte Democrat Central Committee.

Leprechaun Luncheon On Tuesday, Butte Celebrations will host its annual Leprechaun Luncheon at the McQueen Club, 3250 Hecla. The event begins at noon and features entertainment by the Great Scots Pipe Band, the Copper City Cloggers and Judy Powers with Frances Glenn. Cost for the buffet lunch is $7.50.

The Butte-Silver Bow Lunch with the Pipers Democrat Central Committee presents its 37th annual Also on Tuesday, the Friends Shillelagh Shindig on Tuesday of the Pipers will hold a lunch from 8 p.m. to midnight at the with the Pipe and Drum Band of McQueen Club, 3250 Hecla St. the Edmonton Police Service at the The event features great food, War Bonnet Hotel, liquor basket raffles, guest speakers, See SCHEDULE, Page 2

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Unselfish service to mankind Parade marshals spent years helping fellow citizens

BY GERARD O’BRIEN of the Montana Standard

ervice to the less fortunate has always been part and parcel of the lives of Joanne and Jim Cortese, the co-directors of the Butte Emergency Food Bank.

As they complete their final year prior to retirement, it is fitting that two Irish folks who have served the Butte and Anaconda communities for so long be named as the St. Patrick’s Day parade marshals this year.

And, as usual with the Corteses, they remain humble about the honor with a spot of humor, as they will be riding in a green VW bug convertible rather than a Cadillac.

The Corteses have long-time ties to the Butte and Irish communities.

Jim Cortese, 72, is the greatgrandson of Irish Naval Capt. Michael O’Shea, who, in the 1850s, rescued his crew from the lighthouse at Dursey Island (of the Beara Peninsula where many Butte Irish hail from) during a horrific storm. O’Shea was honored for his heroics. His daughter, Katie, immigrated to Walkerville in 1898 and married Cane Holland. Later, Jim was born to Katherine and Charles Cortese.

“I attended St. Lawrence School, Butte Central and Carroll College. Later I attended the St. Thomas Seminary in Denver, along with another great-grandson of O’Shea, the Rev. Robert Shea who used to live on Woolman Street. When we were ordained, there was a write-up in the Irish Times,” Cortese said.

Jim served as a priest and teacher of religion and government in the Anaconda Catholic

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was kind of a no-brainer, it filled niche for us,” Joanne said.

The co-directors joined the Food Bank in 2002, and helped push forward the initiative to relocate to a larger warehouse on 2nd Street. They moved into the new building April 2007.

Volunteers at the food bank have grown from six or so up to 90.

“The camaraderie among the volunteers is amazing,” she said.

Clients of the food bank are growing as well, especially those recently unemployed, the Corteses said.

The addition of the “food rescue program” will help get the food bank through the leaner times between their two large food collections — the annual Thompson Food Drive in December and the Postal Workers Drive in May. With a new kitchen, the food bank is able to take fresh food left over from banquets and caterers, repackage it, and give out to clients. That food would WALTER HINICK / THE MONTANA STANDARD normally go to waste.

JIM AND JOANNE CORTESE will ride in this Volkswagen Bug as grand marshals of this year’s “Missoula took in St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Butte.

127,000 pounds of repackaged food last year,” Jim said.

The program will keep schools and at St. Peter’s and church didn’t seem to be going service never ceased.

St. Paul’s churches in the in the right direction. I had a lot Joanne continued working as constant the flow of food into and out of the food bank.

Smelter City. of misgivings.” an education administrator at At the end of this year, the Joanne, 75, whose maiden Jim began working as a sales- Warm Springs State Hospital, name was O’Gillen, found her man for the Port of Butte and then as activities director for the Corteses will leave the food bank way to the Dominican Sisters then WestCo or Westinghouse Butte Park Royal Nursing home, with a solid foundation.

“The people of Butte have after high school in Minnesota Supply. now Copper Ridge, and in 1979, been so generous, even in the where she was raised.

In 1974, they got married and she became a Montana Tech bad years,” said Jim Cortese.

She was a school administra- had two children. professor in professional and tor in Alabama, Oklahoma, “People were very accepting technical communications.

“We just cannot thank them Illinois and ultimately of our decision back then, When the couple retired, they enough.”

Anaconda. though we were concerned wanted to continue their volunTheir future plans are to visit The couple became lay people about the reaction of leaving the teerism. They spent about two their children and grandchilin 1973, in part as a result of the church,” Joanne said. “Jim was months with the Dominican dren. The Corteses have a son, Vatican II council that changed a happy as a priest, and I was Sisters in Chicago before they Brian Cortese in Ellensburg, lot of the policies of the church happy as a sister, but I have no heard of an opening at the Butte Wash., a hay farmer, and a in 1962. regrets about being a sister or Food Bank. daughter, Jackie Mrachek, a “Things were changing so leaving it behind.”

“Our first love always was physical therapist, in Bismarck, radically,” said Joanne, “that the And their dedication to Butte and the service here. It N.D.

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Continued from Page 1 2100 Cornell. Cost of the lunch is $13. For reservations, call 494-7800.

Crowning of St. Urho Tuesday is St. Urho’s Day, and the crowning of this year’s patron saint of Finland will take place at 4 p.m. at the Helsinki Yacht Club, 402 E. Broadway. The event is followed by entertainment by the Great Scots Pipe Band from 6 to 8 p.m. and Andy Larson at 8 p.m.

The annual St. Paddy’s Day Parade begins at 11 a.m. at the corner of Mercury and Colorado streets. It travels east on Mercury to Wyoming Street, then north to Granite, then west to Montana Street, south on Montana to Mercury Street, and back east to Emma Park. (See map on Page 5) The parade is sponsored by Butte Celebrations. This year’s grand marshals are Jim and Joanne Cortese, co-directors of the Butte Emergency Food Bank.

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Activities will include at X-Box “Call of Duty” tournament, a Wii tourney, volleyball and a ping-pong tournament with prizes offered in each event. Door prizes will be given away and free food will be available from local vendors.

The Butte-Silver Bow Health Department, Butte Cares and the YMCA provide support for the TASC party.

Handing Down the Heritage

A family evening of Irish music and dance begins at 6:30 p.m. at the TASC teen party Civic Center. Music for the annual “Handing Down the Heritage” event The group Teens Advocating a Catholic Mass Safe Community will hold its annual is provided by Butte’s own Dublin A Mass with the Ancient Order of alcohol- and drug-free St. Pat’s Day Gulch with dancing by the Tiernan Hibernians will be held at 8 a.m.

Irish Dancers. Admission is $10 for party Wednesday at the Butte Wednesday at St. Patrick’s Church adults, $5 for students 12 to 18 years YMCA, 2975 Washoe St., from 5 to in Butte. old and free for children under 12.

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Welcome the pipers on Monday Friendly Sons The Pipe and Drum Band of the Edmonton Police Service, a group that has been coming to Butte to perform and help celebrate Butte’s Celtic heritage for more than 25 years, will be the guests at a special reception in their honor on Monday evening, March 15.

The reception to welcome the Pipers to Butte from Edmonton, Alberta, will be hosted at the Acoma Lounge at 60 E. Broadway.

Admission is $10 per person and includes appetizers and a special

performance by the Pipe and Drum Band for the many Friends of the Pipers in Butte.

Doors open to the public at 7 p.m.; the Pipers are expected to arrive at 8 p.m. and stay until 10 p.m.

All proceeds of the event will serve as a fundraiser for the programs and projects of Mainstreet Uptown Butte, including bringing the Pipers to Butte for future appearances and performances.

MONTANA STANDARD FILE PHOTO For more information or THE PIPE AND DRUM BAND of the Edmonton Police to reserve tickets, call Service marches in last year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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‘Jacob’s Pillow’ to play at Shillelagh Shindig The Helena band “Jacob’s Pillow” is scheduled to play for the 37th annual Shillelagh Shindig in Butte on Tuesday, March 16, from 8 to midnight.

The band gets its name from the Irish folk tale surrounding the Blarney Stone. Some say it was Jacob’s Pillow, brought to Ireland by the prophet Jeremiah — according to the Web site http://www.blarneycastle.ie/pages/ — but the band has also been billed by several other names over the years including “The Never Land Ranch Hands,” “The Dimpled Chads,” “The Earth Tones,” “The Swinging Pulaskis,” “Whistler’s In-Laws” and others. It is an ongoing gag for the

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The band, which has been together for about 10 year, plays several styles of music including all kinds of rock (southern, country, classic) as well as some folk and Irish tunes.

There are three original members, Ed Tinsley of Helena, guitar and vocals, Bill Lombardi, Helena, lead guitar, and Butte native Mark Piskolich, guitar, mandolin, harmonicas and vocals. Recently the band added Mary Tuckerman on vocals and piano, Trebor Riddle on bass and various other instruments and vocals, and Cody Davis on drums.

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The Shillelagh Shindig is presented by the Butte-Silver Bow Democrat Central Committee at the McQueen Club, 3250 Hecla St. The event includes food, liquor basket raffles, guest speakers, 50/50, live music and more.

The Edmonton bagpipers are scheduled to arrive around 8 p.m.

Admission is free, but donations are welcomed.

Candidates for office and elected officials are encouraged to attend and bring a liquor bottle donation for the raffle. Call Barb at 310-0638 for details about the Shindig, or Josh at 498-4870 for details about the Butte Democrat Central Committee.

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For more than 100 years the Friendly Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick have welcomed in the spring with an annual dinner in Butte.

The group will host its 102 annual dinner Tuesday, March 16, at the War Bonnet Hotel, 2100 Cornell Ave., with cocktails at 6 p.m. and dinner at 7 p.m. The event is open to the public and costs $25 per person. Tickets are available at the War Bonnet Hotel, Cavanaugh’s Country Celtic, or from Bubba Maloney, president of Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick, at 490-8551.

Maloney said the event will involve giving away two $500 scholarships to Butte High seniors Jennifer Lynch and Kane O’Neill, and will honor past members who recently died.

Maloney said it’s also a great event to reunite with loved ones.

“A lot of people come back to Butte for the holiday (St. Patrick’s Day), and it’s a good time of year to see friends and family,” he said.

This year’s featured speaker will be Traolach O’Riordain. O’Riordain is an adjunct assistant professor of Irish language and literature at the University of Montana in Missoula and is expected to speak about the history of Irish culture in Montana.

Pat Kearney will be the evening’s master of ceremonies.

The club will also present five memorial plaques to members who died in the past year. These memorials will honor Dan O’Gara, Jim “Harr” Harrington, Ed Morris, Bill Driscoll and Pat “Chops” Driscoll.

The Friendly Sons and Daughters of St. Patrick was founded in Butte in 1908 as a social club celebrating Irish heritage by Judge J.J. Lynch, Maurice English and John H. O’Meara.

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More than one way to celebrate

BY LYNN O’ROURKE HAYES familytravel.com

Share in the luck of the Irish this St. Patrick’s Day season by finding your own bit o’ green. Here are five ideas to consider:

1. New York City.

Head to the Big Green Apple for the granddaddy of all St. Patrick’s Day parades. Find a spot along Fifth Avenue to see the long-standing, noncommercial tradition unfold.

Held to honor the patron saint of Ireland and to celebrate Irish faith and heritage, the first march took place on March 17, 1762 more than 14 years before the Declaration of Independence was signed.

Stay at the nearby Marriott Residence Inn at Bryant Park, where free

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Contact: www.marriott.com; www.nyc-stpatrick-day-parade.org.

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Celebrate your family’s good fortune on the greens at one of this resort’s five courses. Junior tee markers, club rentals, instruction, golf camps and family tee times make it a grand 2. St. Lucia. location for a fairwayFamilies have the opportunity to give back to focused holiday. After a day on the links, enjoy pool the island during an ecofriendly stay that includes activities, surfing or booa half-day excursion toil- gie-boarding in the ocean, or a game of tennis. ing alongside island resiContact: (800) 654-2924 dents. Visit a working farm and help harvest seasonal or www.kiawahresort.com. fruits and vegetables, or 4. Lucky Ski Break. pitch in to catch farmSave a little green with raised tilapia and shrimp. festive “Spring Break on Later, join in a Friday fish Us” packages in Colorado. fry with the opportunity to You’re in luck when booksample locally caught ing family stays at seafood and vegetables. ski-savvy hotels in Vail, Contact: 1-877-657Aspen, Beaver Creek and 7625; www.landings.rock- Vail Resorts locations, including Breckenridge and Keystone. Stay five nights and get two nights free for a 40 percent savings and the

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5. Butte, Mont.

Years ago Irish immigrants came to this Rocky Mountain town in search of mining opportunities.

Today the Irish heritage is alive and well and no more evident than on St. Patrick’s Day, when the town comes alive. Enjoy the parade plus a trolley ride to learn more about the colorful characters, famous folks, miners and bandits who lived and worked in Butte. Consider a drive north to Glacier National Park or south to Yellowstone.

Contact: www. wintermt.com; www.buttecvb.com.

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Music on St. Patrick’s Day Music on St. Patrick’s Day will include the annual session with Butte’s own Dublin Gulch from noon to 3 p.m. at the Silver Dollar Saloon.

The band, with members Tom Powers and Mick Cavanaugh of Butte, Jim Schulz of Helena and John Joyner of Missoula, also will perform at the Handing Down the Heritage show with the Tiernan Irish Dancers at the Civic Center Wednesday evening.

Immediately after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Kevin Lowney will perform Irish music and comedy at the Jail House Coffee Shop, 116 W. Park.

Take The Challenge Lowney, a Butte native, has performed for 30 years throughout the United States and in Ireland. The show is family friendly and alcohol-free.

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in Irish, Italian and English.

In addition, many Butte mining songs and tales will be performed.

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DUBLIN GULCH, left, and Kevin Lowney are among the musicians performing on St. Patrick’s Day in Butte.

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August 13,14 & 15 In Historic Uptown Butte Performances by world class Irish bands and dancers. • Outstanding regional Irish bands and dance performances.

Irish Language Workshops – History.

Archival Photo Display - Author Lectures & Book Fair. • Film Festival - Children’s Activities Genealogy – Music & Dance Workshops Food & Arts & Crafts Vendors

For more information log on to

www.mtgaelic.org

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Throughout The Years!

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