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Growing at White Violet Center for Eco-Justice
...of course, alpacas.” Anna Nagy shows one of the White Violet Farm Alpacas at the Vigo County Fair in Terre Haute, Indiana. The alpacas and White Violet Center have made an impact on Anna. The Nagy family has attended and/or participated in almost every Earth Day celebration. For several years, White Violet Farm Alpacas has sponsored the Vigo County alpaca 4-H club, of which Anna and her two sisters are members. “Anna has gone on to become the president of...
Rainy day on and off the farm
...Greencastle, Indiana, visited. Garden Manager Candace Minster showed them around and answered questions about the ministry. They’re pictured below with Director Lorrie Heber, Sister Mary Montgomery, Candace and myself. And there is no way we can give a recap of the day without talking about the morning alpaca show at the Vigo County Fair in Terre Haute. White Violet Center is a co-sponsor of the Vigo County Alpaca Handlers 4-H Club. These photos are from the obstacle course portion of...
Sister Laurette Bellamy
...both involved in the PA South Side Circle as well as several parish groups: A Bunco group, adoration times, women’s club dinners and the Joy Club. Laurette wasn’t much for using a cane or a rollator, but ended up using both at different times. She called her cane, Elsie and her rollator, Hector. She was also a connoisseur of chocolate, as long as it was Russell Stover’s milk chocolate. Sister Laurette Bellamy with General Superior Sister Dawn Tomaszewski. I believe...
Ann Wagner Harper: Finding the Silver Lining
...was a short one, as her well trained voice was soon sought by Art Berry and the Columbia Club, Indianapolis. Because her salary at the club was only $35 a week, she asked for help in getting a day job at WIBC, an Indianapolis radio station. Station owner Richard Fairbanks hired her “sight unseen.” With this much coveted job, Ann’s salary jumped to $75 a week. On this radio station, Ann sang on the show, “PM Party,” with a full...
Sister Joan Zlogar (formerly Sister Joseph Bernard)
...River Grove, Ill., Joan was interviewed by the River Grove Messenger newspaper. Joan described her personal goals as principal in this way: “My door will be open to any student who wants to come in and introduce themselves. I’m going to classrooms, to club activities. I want to know them on a first-name basis … I want them to be the best they can be. … I see the principal as a master teacher. I don’t have all the answers....
Marywood, CA, Class of ’74, 50th Reunion
October 12, 2024 at 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm EDT Clubhouse 2 at Laguna Woods 24112 Moulton Parkway Laguna Woods, California 92637 United States 949-597-4286 View Location Website Peggy Farner 714-801-4508 chuck@farners.net $100 Ticket cost for the reunion evening Details: Saturday, October 12th, 5:00-9:00pm Girls only reunion at the Laguna Woods Clubhouse 2, Grevillea Room in Laguna Woods Sunday, October 13th, 10:00am Meet for a walk down the street/site of where our school used to be. This will be followed...
My life with the Violin
...St. Francis Borgia School in Chicago. Then, in 1963, we opened Mother Theodore Guerin High School, just down the road a piece in River Grove. I walked down there twice a week and started the freshmen Glee Club. The following year, I began teaching there, full time, with two Glee Clubs. In 1964, Sister Mary Catherine Keene joined me, and very soon we were invited to begin violin lessons with George Perlman, a well-known teacher and editor, in downtown Chicago....
Don’t take yourself too seriously
...today for the first time in at least three years. My doctor told me I don’t have enough stress in my life. It is a fundraiser. People are paying a lot of money to play with me. I think they should get a refund. … I’m buying a bushel of balls … I think when I come to a water hole, I should just throw a ball in. I’m told when I drive up to the club, they will take...
The Philosophy of Fair Trade
...challenge facing the world” with poverty and economic justice following at 44 percent. However, with fair trade, everyone benefits. If you regularly shop at grocery stores, check out the produce aisles by looking for the fair trade label on items such as avocados, bananas, chocolate/cocoa, coffee, and tea. Fair trade is not limited to agricultural products. You should think about fair trade every time you shop. “Visibility of Fairtrade products has increased since 2021 for nearly all major product categories...
Witness
...the righteous cannot rise beyond the highest which is in each of you, so the wicked and the weak cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.” A ‘Teachable’ Moment I believe Will LeCroy can teach us an essential truth: Who among us deserves to be labeled, judged, discarded even, according to the worst thing we ever did? Rather are we not called to honor human dignity and extend God’s loving design to all creation, to all...
Sister Margaret Heese (formerly Sister Margaret Bernard)
...told by some of her friends – stories known only to a few. Margaret talked Sister Barbara Bluntzer into getting her ears pierced. Sister Jean Fuqua felt honored that Margaret let her use the best sewing machine in the sewing room. Sisters Margaret Norris and Joseph Fillenwarth still can’t believe Margaret used the sewing machine to sew name labels on her clothes. As the youngest sister in a local community, band member Sister Joyce Brophy was given a pocket watch...
WVC adds ‘Real Organic Project’ certification
...protect the integrity of the organic label. Organic farming has always been based on “feed the soil, not the plant.” Young plants inside the greenhouse. Real organic farming relies on the microbial activity of the soil to slowly release nutrients to the plant. In recent years, many organic farmers have grown distraught over USDA decisions that have negated this fundamental truth, even though growing in soil is original to the USDA Organic standards. Further, rules have been overlooked regarding the...