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A parade of their own

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GALENA–Last week, on Tuesday, March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, employees from The Workshop, spread a little joy throughout town.

The staff boarded the float that would have carried Workshop consumers and staff as grand marshals in Galena’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, which was cancelled, and drove through the parking lot and on the street in front of the two Kreider Services group homes in Galena, one on West Street and the other on Park Avenue.

Workshop staff, wearing lots of green, cheered and yelled to the residents, who are currently quarantined at their homes due to the COVID-19 pandemic.