You could hardly hear a thing on Church Street at 3:30 p.m. today. That’s because it was clogged with honking, cement-mixing trucks from S.D. Ireland. The yellow-and-white mixers were guests of honor in the local construction and excavating firm’s annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. Of trucks.

Funds raised for the spectacle will be donated to S.D. Ireland’s Cancer Research Fund.

See the accompanying video for a look at the trucks. But mind your volume meter.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=3-TX50nOjqM%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in Mar 18-24, 2009.

Mike Ives was a staff writer for Seven Days from January 2007 until October 2009.