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When someone
virtuous turns
away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, is because of the iniquity he
The Open
it
committed that he must die. But turns from the wickedness mitted,
he
he does what is
shall
turned
preserve his
away from
has committed, he
all
he
stomach
the sins that he
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he
shall not die.
-Ezekiel 18:26-28
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is
through the
and just,
since he has
shall surely live,
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to the soul
he has com-
right
life;
if
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Parishioners help frame family's dreams By ELLEN NEERINCX
"Losing that day didn't
SIGMON Correspondent
CONOVER
—
If
you
went to the Park Hill neighborhood last week to look at the Habitat for Humanity home being built there, you
might have found parishioners of Hickory's St. Aloysius Church working; or you might have found them working on any of the other three homes being built in the area that
week.
"Wherever you need help, people go," said Bill
Sylvester, a St. Aloysius pa-
rishioner serving as construction leader for the home. "If we have extra people, we help them. If they have extra people, they help us."
.
exceeded our goal." Sylvester said that, in addition to having all the windows and doors installed and tarpaper on all the roofs, the volunteers had all the roofs shingled and most of the siding on the houses by the end of the week. There were a variety of people working at the Park Hill site during the week;
some working on their first Habitat homes, and some who had spent many years volunteering for the organization. Sylvester said that there was plenty of work,
Aloysius supplied the funds and much of the labor St.
Park Hill home, one
Above
teers.
"They build up
their
and their confidence in their abilities," he said. "Then they can go and work on their own houses." John Grindel, Sr., a St. Aloysius parishioner, has worked on Habitat homes for 15 years. Eight years ago, he said, he was on a scaffold at a site
He
when
it
col-
of the four Habitat for Hu-
lapsed.
manity homes built during "Building on Faith," a weeklong building blitz Sept. 14 21. Churches from the community came together to supply volunteers to build the houses and serve lunch each day at the site. Linda Sylvester called and coordinated the St. Aloysius volunteers, which numbered eight to 10 a day
broke his hip and ankle. Then Grindel persuaded his square dance club to hold
for the entire week.
Even though workers were rained out the first Saturday of the blitz, they still met their goal of getting all four houses weathered-in by the end of the week, said Bill
Photos by Ellen N. Sigmon
even for first-time volun-
skills
.
"It's a real team effort," added Barbara Malone, a St. Aloysius parishioner who said the Park Hill home was the second Habitat project on which she had worked.
for the
"We
really hurt us," he said.
16 feet and
fell
money to buy new scaffolding for Habitat for Humanity. "God a benefit to raise
spoke to
do
it
me and
told
me
to
that way," he said with
a grin.
"He
talks to us if we'll
just listen."
One
of the four houses being built that week was going to his son, he said. By coincidence, said Joyce Corbett, a St. Aloysius
parishioner
and
former
president of the local Habitat
board,
Sylvester.
the
five-bedroom
See FRAME, page 14
left: Barbara Malone, Eileen Kaiser and Jackie Stone put insulation board onto the Habitat for Humanity house built by St. Aloysius Church parishioners. Above right: Tammy Warner, who works for Habitat for Humanity through Americorps, takes some boards to
be measured and
cut.
Golden anniversary for St. John Baptist de la Salle Church GERALD POTKAY
By REV. MR.
NORTH WILKESBORO St.
John Baptist de
Church celebrated
la Salle
its
50th
anniversary Sept. 21 with a special
Mass and
Franciscan Missionaries be-
came the
was
Correspondent
—
the early 1900s, the Catholic
population of North Carolina
dinner.
"Today's celebration will continue throughout the year as we pray for all parishioners past, present and future," said Father John Hanic, pas-
—
scarce.
To
reach these
districts of the
state, priests used railroad chapel cars, which operated between 1907- 1930s.
By
1933, Bishop William
Hafey, bishop of the Diocese of Raleigh (which encompassed all of North Carolina at the time) invited the
J.
Franciscans of the
tor.
The
history of St. John
an interesting one, dating back to a time before the church was even built. From the late 1800s to Baptist de la Salle
is
During those
Catholics living in the rural
and mission
New York
sent on a
first priest
regular visiting basis.
Mass was
early years,
said in "house-
churches," similar to those of
the early Christian ties
communi-
of the
first
Two
brothers,
three centuries.
Ed and
Harry Hettiger, went
to
Ra-
leigh to ask Bishop Vincent
J.
Waters about the possibility of buying the "old Forester home" for use as a church.
Province of the Most Holy
With
Name
was acquired and converted into a church and rectory. On June 2, 1952, the
to give pastoral care to
the seven counties (including
Wilkes) in the northwestern part of the state. Thus, Father Peter Sheridan of the Order of
the bishop's approval,
the house
See ANNIVERSARY, page 14
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