PEOPLE IN
THE NEWS
Have you heard?
BY KATE BLAIN
ASSISTANT EDITOR
St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam recently honored more than
150 volunteers, marking National Volunteer Week, including BEATRICE
PASICZNYK, ANN SHERMAN and RITA TRAIDER, who received awards for
20 years of service.
Also at St. Mary's, recent winners of monthly "values
in practice" (VIP) awards were nurse CAROL OLMSTEAD and LINDA
ORLEANSKI of the Health Information Management Department....
St. Augustine's School in Troy just held its first sock hop.
Students and parishioners danced to 1950s music by a band assembled by music
teacher JOHN DESSINGUE....
Students from Siena College in Loudonville are making a
second trip to Belarus to restore a Jewish cemetery and work on a house
while staying with local families. (Read about their first trip by searching
for "Belarus" at www.evangelist.org.) Fundraising for the trip is
ongoing; to contribute, contact RALPH BLASTING, 783-2320....
St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands just held its second annual
migratory bird count, gathering information from bird-watchers. The cemetery
will also hold a ceremony June 26 to note its listing on the National
Register of Historic Sites....
PHOEBE COLE, a senior at the Academy of the Holy
Names in Albany, has won second place at the Greater Capital Region Science
and Engineer Fair at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for her research
project on cancer cells. She can now compete nationally. She plans to attend
the University of Vermont....
Seniors from Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons School in Schenectady
recently participated in "Youth Service Day," volunteering for
cleanup efforts at historic Vale Cemetery in the city....
Opening day at Belmont Park racetrack this year included the
presentation of a check to Catholic Charities of Brooklyn, Queens and Albany
and to the Disabled Jockey Fund, representing a donation of 10 cents of
every transaction using new Dime Bank ATM machines at the tracks for the
next year....
LAUREN LITZ, a parishioner of St. John the Evangelist
Church in Schenectady, recently rang the bell at the NASDAQ stock market in
New York City -- part of an award for winning a First Niagara Bank essay
contest. Students wrote about ideas for businesses that could help others;
her essay talked about saving the environment....
St. Mary's/St. Alphonsus School in Glens Falls has reached
the $1 million mark in fundraising for its Catholic School Cornerstone
project, with the goal of renovating the school. The building is on the
National Register of Historic Places....
RAVEN SHORT, a junior at Catholic Central High School
in Troy, and physical education teacher KATHY ANGLUM have been
nominated for outstanding teacher and student awards from the East Greenbush
area and Troy Family YMCA. Raven was also named Rensselaer County student of
the year....
The Hearst Foundation has awarded The College of Saint Rose
in Albany a $250,000 grant to support its Massry Center for the Arts,
currently under construction. A music wing will be named for WILLIAM
RANDOLPH HEARST....
St. Catherine's Center for Children in Albany has received a
$2,250 grant from the Holiday Match fund at Stewart's. The money will send
children to summer camp and support other recreational activities....
Two seventh-graders from Christ the King School in Westmere,
JOAN HARRISON and RACHEL LEE, won first place medals at the
New York State History Day competition in Cooperstown recently for a project
titled, "DDT, The Killer Cure." They will compete nationally....
St. Mary's Hospital in Amsterdam has received a $17,000
grant from the northeastern New York affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the
Cure. The funds will be used for the Center for Complementary Therapies'
Healing Touch Buddies program....
DAVID KACZYNSKI of New Yorkers Against the Death
Penalty just visited LaSalle Institute to speak with the junior class about
his brother, TED, known as the Unabomber for a campaign of mail
bombings from the 1970s to '90s. The NYADP official shared thoughts on the
death penalty....
Thirty students at Siena College in Loudonville have been
inducted into Delta Epsilon Sigma, the national scholastic honor society for
students in Catholic colleges....
From Sunday bulletins
BY KATE BLAIN
ASSISTANT EDITOR
PAT BARR is the new parish health minister at Holy
Family parish in Albany, an addition to the parish's ministries....
Immaculate Conception parish in Glenville just hosted a
program on "taking care of your parents." Guest speakers addressed
elder law, community resources for seniors and adapting homes to meet the
needs of the elderly....
MEGHAN WEBSTER is being sponsored by her parish, St.
Mary's in Clinton Heights, when she participates in the Multiple Sclerosis
Walk on May 1 in Albany....
Several Pack 28 Cub Scouts from St. Mary's Church in Oneonta
have earned religious scouting medals: ALEX VALENTE, LIAM KELLY,
CHRISTOPHER CEROSALETTI, NATE MOON and ANDREW STANTON....
AGNES PHELAN, a parishioner of Holy Trinity in Cohoes
who passed away a year ago, has been honored with a plaque on the sidewalk
in the front of the church recognizing her half-century as a school crossing
guard there....
Children at St. John Francis Regis parish in Grafton have
already sent $105 to the needy in Appalachia through a collection of
"noisy money" (change); the collection continues....
MR. AND MRS. DUONG UOC and NGUYEN HAO,
parishioners of St. Luke's in Schenectady, have donated a monstrance to the
parish for monthly eucharistic adoration....
Parishioners of Blessed Sacrament in Springfield Center and
St. Thomas the Apostle in Cherry Valley are taking a "field trip"
to the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Albany this month. They
will attend Mass and tour the church, then tour St. Agnes Cemetery in
Menands....
(05/08/08)
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