Oviedo celebrates St. Patrick’s Day with a 5K and a street party

St. Patrick’s Day weekend in Oviedo started off with a bang at the HOPE Helps Sham Rock N Run 5K Saturday morning, then a big celebration in the evening.

Oviedo Community News woke up early Saturday to warm up and run the 15th annual HOPE Helps Sham Rock N Run 5K at St. Luke’s Lutheran Church, then raced over to Center Lake Park to set up for the St. Patrick’s Day celebration that afternoon going into the night.

Photos by Isaac Benjamin Babcock, Demetrius Montero, Megan Stokes and Lia Stokes

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Isaac is a co-founder of Oviedo Community News. He creates editorial plans, working closely with the community to identify issues that affect people’s everyday lives. He is OCN’s resident photojournalist.

He is a longtime local journalist and former managing editor of the Seminole Voice. His work has been featured in Golfweek magazine, the New York Times and Jalopnik. He has won more than a dozen Florida Press Association and Society of Professional Journalists awards and contributed to award-winning, in-depth work for the NPR member station 90.7 WMFE.

Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida’s Nicholson School of Communication and Media, and may be best known for his many roles in the annual Oviedo Cemetery Tour. He enjoys hiking, running, sailing, motorcycling, modifying cars, inventing things, baking and going on adventures into forests and up snowy mountains with his family.