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Before we cover all the wonderful things taking place at our parishes this beautiful fall day, I would like to talk about two wonderful souls from our community who passed away recently and whose funerals will be celebrated next week.

Speaking of the St. Patrick’s Parish Hall…

We told you last week that Maurelio & Ruth Serna spent a great deal of time scrubbing the floors, cabinets and tables in the kitchen that had been neglected for years. St. Patrick’s parishioner Joe Kraus took it upon himself to prime, paint and seal the kitchen floor this week to bring back its luster. Many parishioners have commented on how beautiful the kitchen looks after all this labor-intensive care to our church kitchen.

Both St. Anne’s and St. Patrick’s Churches are working on flagpole projects to honor our country. The members of St. Anne’s Parish Council are moving forward on their end of the project. In honor of Jim & Marlene LaMotte, their family brought a specialist to come and trim branches, clean up the flagpole and paint it so that “Old Glory” may fly freely.

St. Anne completed its roof project this summer. On Wednesday of next week, Joe Martin and his crew will be gracing St. Patrick’s Church to upgrade the church and rectory garage roof as well. A project that should have cost us $60,000 has now been reduced to us making $8,000 because of Joe Martin’s kindness of lowering the cost of their work by that amount for the sake of the parish! That St. Patrick’s did not dip into her bank account for either the gym bathroom or the roof project is a testimony to a whole lot of people doing good in the name of God at this beautiful, hidden gem in the Diocese of Joliet.

Nick Skokna (the “potato chip guy”) is moving forward for a lighting project inside and outside our churches. He projects the cost of the entire project at St. Patrick’s will cost about $8,000, unless we get volunteers to climb up the sixteen-foot ladder we have and install the lights inside our church ourselves (for some reason, our 75-year-old sexton tells me his sixteen-foot ladder climbing days are over… go figure). If anyone can help us with this project, we would appreciate it! (St. Anne’s Church is next for lighting upgrades). If we do this, we can save $3,000-4,000 in labor.

Thanks to Ted Peterson (Van Drunen Farms) and all our city inspectors, we have been given the go-ahead to move forward with the plumbing work in our first-floor gym bathrooms. Joe Kraus (him again!) is working with his sons in cutting out all the concrete necessary for Joe Cohn to complete his plumbing work. Hopefully we can finish this project by the end of October.

The St. Anne Parish Council met last night to celebrate all the good work that has been accomplished with our summer St. Anne’s Day and Golf Outing events. They are moving ahead with a sidewalk project that will bring the sidewalks closer to the curbs for the sake of our seniors, which is a wonderful thing! They also are in the planning stages to celebrate their building’s 15th Anniversary with Bishop Ron Hicks on December 4th. The RA Brass Quartet will be playing at both parishes that day and we are hoping for a wonderful turnout at both parishes to welcome Bishop Hicks and to celebrate our Border Town spirit!

That’s it!!! (That’s enough!!!). As one parishioner commented about what we are doing with the parish, having volunteers come together to make these projects possible, “This is how a parish is SUPPOSED to work!” Have a blessed weekend all! – Fr. Pete

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PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR SICK: Austin Fuhrmann, Jean Gibson, Evelyn Provost, Mary Kay Blankestyn, Elizabeth Rademacher, Ron Gall, Carmen "Butch" Florio, Cynthia Vickery, Joanne McCracken, Karen Hensa, Irene Budz... and all those on our sick list.

PLEASE PRAY FOR OUR BELOVED DECEASED: Shirley Rehmer & Nancy Williams 

At St. Anne's... Eva Bell, Paula Bertrand, Lola Billings, Duane Blanchette, Cheryl Boswell, Patrick Burns, Cindy Capriotti, Jesse & Ashley Childress, Abraham Daily, Tom Dandurand, Aria Dionne, Teresa Dionne, Carol Futcher, Raelynn Garrett, Jack & Lucy Houk, Val Lagacy, Bentley Lottinville and Linda Miramontes.

At St. Patrick's... N. Atkinson, R. Bailey, D. Barth, Beetle Family, D. Brown, B & T Cantwell, M. Cantwell, E. Cirks, M. Clocksin, E. Coffman, S. Conner, M & D Cousin, M. Cruz, A. Delaney, D. Demack, M. Dionne, J. Dobbins, E. Duke, D. Dunlap, G. Field, C. Fritz, R. Gall, J. Gilbert, J. Grill, R. Harper, D & L Haut, Fr. Hessling, J. Hibbs, D. Hiller, R. Ilg, C. Jones, L. Kane, R. Kazee, K. Kelson-Laney, A. Kijewski, L. Lanove, L. Lee, L. Leranth, E. Lopez, B. Love, W. Marten, L. McNulty, L. Mercado, R & V Morse, C. Ortman, C. Palider, C. Piec, C. Provost, R. Rehmer, P. Reising, D. Roberts, A. Schaff, D. Schmied, T & J Settles, K. Simpson, B. Siwicki, B. Spagnola, M. Tolbert, M. Tolmer, H. Tousignant, M. Tedford, M. Velazquez, G. & L. Vlach, M. Williams, M. Witherspoon, C. Woosnam, S. Young, A. Zimmerman, M & L Zink and G. Zokal.

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