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Maiden Still home after all these years St. Pat’s Joliet voyage celebrating Shorewood Chamber to host first Cardboard Boat Regatta
church’s 175th anniversary By Stewart Warren For the Bugle
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By Clare Walters For the Sentinel
Sink or float? Homemade boats fashioned out of cardboard and duct tape will do either-or during the Shorewood Area Chamber of Commerce’s inaugural Cardboard Boat Regatta on Sept. 7. The event, which sets sail at 2 p.m. at Towne Center Park, requires participants to build a boat large enough to fit at least one person either sitting or kneeling. “You make the boat out of cardboard and duct tape and that’s it,” said Denise Schmidt, president of the chamber. Schmidt, who has both participated in and watched such races, said she’s seen cardboard boats run the gamut from a basic refrigerator box to well-engineered crafts with elaborate themes. “Some folks build for speed and others just for the honestto-God fun pageant,” she said. “They’re often extraordinarily creative. They may not be the most seaworthy of crafts, but they’re fun to look at.” Being the first time such an event is hosted in Shorewood, See REGATTA, page 2
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p St. Patrick’s Catholic Church of Joliet will celebrate its 175th anniversary of Sept. 7. u Children of St. Patrick’s School form a Celtic Cross.
n the early 1970s, Lynn Michels and her family began looking for a church. They’d just moved to Joliet and bought a big old house on Allen Street, a block-long stretch on the city’s near West side. There were several churches nearby, including St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, 701 W. Marion St., the Joliet Diocese’s first church. The family’s new neighborhood was called St. Pat’s, after the parish. “We did look at St. John’s because the church was so close, and my children went to school there,” Michels remembered. “But I looked into St. Pat’s, and I liked what I saw.” It was the second-oldest Catholic church in Northern Illinois, a beautiful red-brick structure topped by a pair of majestic steeples. It featured a series of stained-glass windows from Chicago’s Willet Studios, the sacred images telling the story of the Catholic faith. The church also had a popular school with a storied history in See St. Pat’s, page 2