<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:18pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><b style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:24pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Irish Singer James Kilbane headlines St. Patrick’s Day party
in Avon Lake</span></b><br></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A <u>sober St. Patrick’s Day party
and celebration</u>, presented by Sober Seventeenth, Inc. and The LCADA Way,
returns to Avon Lake’s elegant Ahern’s Banquet Center to offer a family
friendly, rip-roaring good time from 5pm to 8pm on Sunday, March 17th, 2019 for
the sixth consecutive year.  </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">All are welcome at a new
party, a new way that has emerged as one of the biggest and best St. Patrick's
Day celebrations in Northeast Ohio.  The
Sober Seventeenth St. Patrick's Day Party serves no alcohol, but it offers an
abundance of fun and enjoyment through authentic Irish culture. The evening’s
entertainers will be introduced by Judge William T. McGinty of the Cuyahoga
County Court of Common Pleas. The event offers:</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Back by popular demand and directly
from Ireland is James Kilbane. Kilbane is, famous for the 2005 “You’re a Star”
televised competition and has gone on to achieve multi-platinum sales of his
recordings in Ireland and become County Mayo’s number one singer.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Making
their Sober Seventeenth debut, The McNamaras from Cleveland performing traditional
Irish tunes on flute, tin whistle, and fiddle;</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">     </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guests
will be greeted by bagpipe tunes by 13-year-old prodigy Reece Colovini. Reece
is the youngest piper in the history of the 87^th Cleveland Pipe
Band, a competitive pipe band founded in Cleveland in 1987.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">●<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">    
</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The award-winning Burke School of Irish
Dance will showcase authentic Irish culture through the performance of young
Irish step dancers, always a crowd favorite. The Burke School of Irish Dance
was founded by Theresa (Tessie) Burke of Elyria who has been teaching Irish
Dance for the past sixty years. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Fun for kids, including shamrock
face-painting and a St. Patrick’s Day theme coloring contest with valuable prizes
donated by Pat Catan's</span>. <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Judge
Sherry Glass of the Lorain County Juvenile Court will chair the panel of judges
for the contest.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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</span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A saintly serving of Irish and
international favorites for every taste and appetite including: Corned beef,
Swedish meatballs, Italian sausage, cheese crackers and veggies, fresh fruit
display, chicken lollipop (gluten free), mini hamburgers, pasta marinara and
pasta Mediterranean, tea, coffee and soft drinks.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">"It's so much we don’t need booze," explained Jack
Kilroy, President of the nonprofit Sober Seventeenth, Inc.  "But seriously, we help people in
recovery prevent relapse, we provide a counterpoint to the pervasive drunken
Irish stereotype and we give families a chance to show their children authentic
Irish culture away from the sea of alcohol that has flooded the day meant to
honor the patron saint of Ireland."</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Admission includes food and great entertainment.  Tickets are $20 and $6 for kids aged 10 &
under.  Advance sale and online tickets
are only $17 and are available online at <a href="https://sober17.brownpapertickets.com">https://sober17.brownpapertickets.com</a>
and paper tickets are available at Casey’s Irish Imports in Rocky River, Ohio.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Contact:
Jack Kilroy at <a href="mailto:sober17th@gmail.com">sober17th@gmail.com</a> or 440-759-1253</span></b></p><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Jack Kilroy </div><div>Tel. 440-759-1253</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Lato, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px;line-height:20px"><i><span style="background-color:rgb(242,244,245)"> </span>People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.</i></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Lato, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.5555562973022px;line-height:20px">  (George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer)</span></font></div>
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