Philadelphia’s Parade Grand Marshal Redefines “Family”
By Denise Foley
irishphiladelphia.com

The Irish Chamber is very proud to support our own, Kathy McGee Burns, as she leads this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

“I’m bored with my story,” Kathy McGee Burns tells me as she settles down on a chair in front of her fireplace, where a gas fire leaps and dances. “You’re probably bored with my story too,” she laughs. She’s wearing a black and white dress with a commanding statement necklace of silver and pearlized globes the size of ping pong balls around her neck. “Like it?” she asks. “I was wearing it the other night at a meeting when I was introduced as ‘the shy’ Kathy McGee Burns. And I stood up and said, ‘Yes, I’m shy.’” She laughs again.

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Organizers of the 2015 World Meeting of Families event in Philadelphia have selected IABCN member company, Homestay.com as the alternative accommodation solution. 

Two million visitors from all over the world are expected to visit Philadelphia from the 22nd to the 27th of September 2015 for the World Meeting of Families congress and a Papal visit by Pope Francis. Local residents in the Philadelphia region and Tri-State area are being asked to sign up as host families for the event and welcome visitors into their homes during the celebrations.

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