Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau might run popular parade
The Hermosa Beach Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau has entered into discussions to oversee the popular St. Patrick’s Day Parade, after the City Council determined it could no longer fund the event. The Council in June unanimously axed funding for special events including the parade, a series of summer concerts at the pier, and downtown celebrations marking the Christmas season and New Year’s Eve. Council members expressed hope that the private sector would find ways to keep the special events afloat, and Allen Sanford of St. Rocke stepped in to produce this summer’s concerts. Now the chamber has begun talking with city officials about the possibility of overseeing the St. Pat’s parade. That would return the parade’s original spearhead, chamber mainstay J. Travers Devine, to its organizational head. Devine, the chamber’s 2008 man of the year, helped launch the parade in 1995 along with Jean Cullen. The parade quickly became one of Hermosa’s most popular public events, with the exception of 2003, when it was rained out. Devine retired from overseeing the event in 2005, handing it over to a volunteer committee, which ran out of steam and handed it off to the City Council in…
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