Entries are now being accepted for the annual County Ventura St. Patrick’s Day Parade which will march down Main Street in downtown Ventura for the 24rd time on St. Patrick’s Day, Saturday, March 17 at 10 a.m. Presented by the Ventura Elks Lodge 1430, the parade with some 100 entries begins at the San Buenaventura Mission on Main Street in Downtown Ventura and moves east past the reviewing stand at Chestnut Street and on to the end at Fir Street.

The parade's them is “Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day”

Parade entries are being accepted until March 8. Parade organizers invite businesses, bands, dancers, acrobats, clowns, horses and organizations to participate in the county’s greenest event! Entry forms can be downloaded from the Parade’s website,www.venturastpatricksdayparade.com or obtained by calling Jim Monahan, Parade Co-Chairman at 643-4275.

Sponsors for the 2013 parade include Rabobank, Agromin, Dargan's Irish Pub, Georgino Development, Wells Fargo Bank, Ventura County Credit Unit, CSUCI, Crowne Plaza, Slaughter & Reagan and Limoneira.