OCTOBER 2012 â– 5
NEWEARTH
Help us make New Earth even better In an ongoing effort to keep our diocesan paper, New Earth, fresh and relevant to the Diocese of Fargo faithful, we’d love your input. In the coming days, we’ll be meeting on what improvements we might make to achieve the above goal. What’s working? What changes would you like to see? Please send your suggestions by email to Roxane.Salonen@fargodiocese.org, or call (701) 356-7958, by Wed., Oct. 10.
‘Walk a mile in my shoes’ An invitation to step out to end poverty The local conferences of the Society St. Vincent de Paul invite Fargo-Moorhead area residents to become friends of the poor. The Society will host the fifth annual Friends of the Poor “Walk a Mile in My Shoes� event on Sat., Oct. 13, at West Acres Mall, Fargo. Check-in begins at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 9 a.m. at the Sears wing. Anyone can participate in the walk and walkers are encouraged to find sponsors or get pledges to raise funds. Walkers and sponsors can sign up by going to www.svdpfriendsofthepoorwalk.org. This year the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has three area conferences participating. They include St. Anthony’s and Lucian J. Arrell conferences of Fargo and St. Joseph’s conference of Moorhead. The proceeds for the walk will assist families with various needs and to purchase gift cards from a local shoe store to give to needy school-age children in
the Fargo-Moorhead area. The gift cards will enable the parents of the children to purchase shoes for the 2013 school year. The funds allocated for shoes are distributed next fall prior to the beginning of the school year. Last year’s walk raised enough funds to purchase 275 pairs of shoes for area children in need. Marge Klinger, chairman of the Friends of the Poor Walk committee, feels a special connection to the Society. “Seeing the face of Christ in the man in need of work boots, the mother of a little girl that has been going to school wearing her brother’s shoes that are way too big or the little boy that has the toe cut out of his sneakers because they are too small, has given me a great love for this organization and the poor that come to our door,� she says. The Friends of the Poor Walk is a national event held each year in nearly all of the 50 states. For more information, call (701) 212-0392 or email svdpfargo@msn.com.
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Ashley Combs, second to left, claimed second place recently in an art contest sponsored by the National Catholic Daughters. She’s pictured here with, left to right, Angela Scheett, regent, Tracy Bergum and Father Larry Delaney.
Sacred Heart sixth-grader from Grand Forks honored through Catholic Daughters contest Ashley Combs, a sixth grade student at Sacred Heart Catholic School in East Grand Forks, was selected recently as a second-place national winner in Art Division One at the National Catholic Daughters Convention. Ashley, the daughter of Colin and Kumi Combs of Grand Forks, was in fifth grade when she created the art. Her teacher at the time, Tracy Bergum, celebrated with her upon receipt of the $50 prize from the Catholic Daughters. Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court Marquette No. 677 of the Greater Grand Forks area, holds a contest each spring within the three Greater Grand Forks Catholic Schools, parish religious education programs, and others from the area interested in participating. Each area has different divisions separated by age groups and grade levels. The divisions comprise essay, art, computer art, music, photography and poetry categories. Winners of the local contest are entered at the North Dakota State Convention, and winners there move on to the national competition. The Catholic Daughters of the Americas is a fraternal organization serving Catholic women. Doris Zidon chairs the contest locally; Angela Scheett serves as regent.
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