Welcome to the Chicopee St. Patrick’s Parade Committee. Our purpose as a committee is to promote and encourage participation in parades, memorials, socials, dances, and other activities in memory of St. Patrick. To raise funds, to sanction, sponsor and promote contests and events in observance of St. Patrick’s Day. To cultivate social interaction among the members and to inculcate the principles of charity, justice, brotherly love, and fidelity, and to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its members. To hold real and personal property and to do all things authorized by law to further the purposes of this corporation.