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The Pantagraph Sunday, March 17, 2013 A9 www.pantagraph.com Phoenix-bound dog ends up in Ireland Revelers worldwide mark St. Patrick's Day Meredith Grant got about the mix-up was in a phone call from the airline before Hendrix's original flight was supposed to land in Phoenix. Grant said she felt like someone punched her in the stomach after finding out her dog had been sent overseas. Hendrix was returned, and the airline apologized and offered a full refund. By Jennifer Peltz and Verena Dobnik ASSOCIATED PRESS I.

mtSOT 1 1 rV i I jtf tmm PHOENIX (AP) An English Springer Spaniel named Hendrix ended up taking a serious detour on his way from New Jersey to Phoenix this week. He ended up in Ireland after being put on the wrong flight. United Airlines spokeswoman Megan McCarthy said the 6-year-old dog was traveling in cargo Thursday when the mix-up happened. When the error was realized, she said the airline took immediate steps to get Hendrix back to his owner. Phoenix television station KNXV reported that the first word owner At Call for a Complimentary Consultation 309-662-7729 www.pamzimmerman.com 2103 E.

Washington, BL Associated PressPAUL BEATY John Shepard and Gena Damento of Rochester, take a photo of themselves kissing Saturday after the Chicago River was dyed green ahead of the St. Patrick's Day parade in Chicago. The Pantagraph and PantagrapUxom reach of 1 UIIVYUpilMVil Central 88.1 Illinois every week. Securities ollered through Ceieia Hnancial Specialists LLC. member F1NRASIPC "Barr Painting for a Day" fA TO NEW YORK Crowds cheered and bagpipes bellowed as New York City's annual St.

Patrick's Day parade kicked off Saturday, and people with a fondness for anything Irish began a weekend of festivities from the Louisiana bayou to Dublin. With the holiday itself falling on a Sunday, many celebrations were scheduled instead for Saturday because of religious observances. In New York, the massive parade, which predates the United States, was led by 750 members of the New York Army National Guard. The 1st Battalion of the 69th Infantry has been marching in the parade since 1851. Michael Bloomberg took in his last St.

Patrick's Day parade as mayor, waving to a cheering crowd as snowflakes fell on Fifth Avenue. Marching just behind him was Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who presented Bloomberg with a historic Irish teapot earlier. "The Irish are found in every borough, every corner of New York," Kenny said at a holiday breakfast. "In previous generations they came heartbroken and hungry, in search of new life, new hope; today they come in search of opportunity to work in finance, fashion, film." Hundreds of thousands lined the parade route in New York, cheering the marching bands, dance troupes and politicians. "We're crazy, the Irish, we're funny and we talk to qDWqu si ultima with a group of women.

"That's what I'm hoping," said his girlfriend, Angela Gibson. Kenny, who visited Chicago for St. Patrick's Day last year, was again making the holiday a jumping-off point for an extended trip to the U.S., with stops in Washington, D.C., and on the West Coast over the ensuing several days. "I will use my visit to promote Ireland's many strengths and to further reinforce our deep and abiding political and economic relationship with the United States," Kenny said in a statement this week. He and President Barack Obama were to meet at the White House on Tuesday and Kenny was to give Obama shamrocks, a tradition that dates to Harry S.

Truman's administration. Obama also was slated to meet the Protestant and Catholic leaders of Northern Ireland's cross -community government, Peter Robinson and Martin for 8 Hours of Labor Call Today for More Details everyone," said 23-year-old Lauren Dawson of Paramus, N.J., who came to her first St. Patrick's Day parade. Green river In downtown Chicago, thousands along the Chicago River cheered as workers on a boat dumped dye into the water, turning it a bright fluorescent green for at least a few hours in an eye-catching local custom. In a sea of people in green shirts, coats, hats, sunglasses and even wigs and beards, 29 -year-old Ben May managed to stand out.

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