We're getting ready for our trip, packing six large suitcases with donations. The generous parishioners from St. Paul's donated school supplies and medications for this trip. There's too much red tape to take the non-prescription medicines right now. St. Anthony on the Lake will be sending a shipment to Peru in July and has offered room for the medicines. Thank goodness! Everything else will be taken on our trip with us. Thank you Nancy Reinbold for packing all the suitcases.
We asked Sister Monica if there was a small gift we could give to each child during our visit. She has asked for a rosary for each child at the school. That's almost 500 rosaries! Janet Shanahan and Mary Kay Lammers has a connection with "The Rosary Man", Dick Schimmel. His goal in life was to donate one million rosaries. He's now 83 years old and he's donated over 2 million rosaries world wide. Thank you Mary Kay Lammers and Janet Shanahan for coordinating this effort. And most of all, thank you Dick for your huge donation. Read about Dick Schimmel in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel at
http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/29204419.html.
One of the suitcases contains six clarinets with cases. Thank you Nick Contorno for inspecting the clarinets. Now six more kids at St. Clare School can partake in the band. Not only did he inspect the instruments, he purchased new reeds for them. We have more instruments to inspect! Who knows where the other 50 clarinets will end up in this world!
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