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Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped to make 1,807 cabbage pierogi and almost 1,000 cheese pierogi over the past three Wednesdays. Below is our remaining cooking schedule. Please come and join in the fun!! Wednesday, June 26th (2:00 - 4:00) (Make Cheese Pierogi) Wednesday, July 10th (2:00 - 4:00) (Make Cheese Pierogi) Tuesday, July 16th (9:00) (Steam Cabbage) Thursday, July 18th (9:00) (Make Golumbki and Kapusta) Friday, July 19th (9:00) (Make Golumbki and Kapusta). We are taking donations of soda (Coke and Pepsi products) and water. Cheer (both liquor and beer) donations for the basket raffle at the Polish Picnic on July 21st can be dropped off at the rectory.
There will be a meeting of all the chairpeople for the Polish Picnic on Monday July 1st at 6:30 in the North Chapel. Booth chairperson(s) should come with any concerns or questions for their area of responsibility. If you are unable to attend the meeting, please contact the rectory (445-5789). Any other interested people are welcome to attend. Once again, thanks to everyone for their hard work making pierogi for the picnic.
St. Anne Society will meet on Wednesday June 19, 2019 at 6:30 pm in the Parish Center. Our guest speaker will be Kimberly Bruce, a freelance writer and the author of Look at the SON: The Fruit of Medjugorje. She will speak about her four trips to Medjugorje and its miracles. We invite all women of the church to join us and bring a friend. Refreshments will be served.
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MUSIC BINGO Irish Sister City Committee Fundraiser on Wednesday, June 26 at Friend's Grille,117 Seymour St., Pittsfield. Arrive at 6:30pm. Prizes. Full Menu Specials including Corned Beef & Cabbage Dinner. $5 per bingo card ( up to 4 )
July 26 - RAGTIME at Mac-Haydn Theatre. Bus leaves here at 5PM, dinner at Yianni’s and then on to the show. Cost of the trip is $85. August 29 – SARATOGA – Race track or the Casino. Bus leaves here at 9:30. Cost is $35. October 7 – ENDERS ISLAND DAY OF RETREAT – Bus leaves at 7:30 from St. Joe’s and we leave Enders to return home about 4-4:30. Cost for the day is $100.
POLISH PICNIC NEWS Thanks to the many volunteers who have helped to make almost 2,000 cabbage pierogi over the past two Wednesdays. We will begin making cheese pierogi on the following Wednesdays from 2:00 to 4:00. Please come and join in the fun!! June 19th, June 26th, July 10th. We are taking donations of cooking spray (Pam) and wax paper as well as soda (Coke and Pepsi products) and water. Cheer (both liquor and beer) donations for the basket raffle at the Polish Picnic on July 21st can be dropped off at the rectory.