Former Green Hut owner Denny Hayes to serve as marshall at Bay City's St. Patrick’s Day Parade

The 2012 Bay City St. Patrick’s Day parade has its grand marshall and it’s William ‘Denny’ Hayes, the former long-time owner of the Green Hut pub. “I’m looking forward to it,” Hayes said of the honor. Hayes is 72 and retired from the bar business but as active as he’s ever been in the local Irish community. He’s currently the president of the Friends of Celtic Culture and a member of Bay City’s Ancient Order of the Hibernians, noting both organizations got started in the back room of the Green Hut. “I think over the years my promotion of the Irish (led to this),” Hayes said. “I always did something (at the Green Hut) to promote St. Patrick’s (day).”

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