Celebrating Catholic School Week

South Boston Catholic Academy officially kicked off Catholic Schools Week on 1/29 through to 2/3/2023.This Annual Celebration of National Catholic Schools Week is a fun, exciting and meaningful week promoting the importance of having faith, being kind to one another, caring for one another all the while getting an excellent education. Teachers and students focused on this year’s theme Faith. Excellence. Service. We celebrated our wonderful school and community in a number of ways including the following: School Spirit: Students decorated their classroom doors for a ‹Door Decorating› competition using CSW related theme or another of their choice. Judges will observe the doors and pick a First, Second and Third

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Community

In the ABCD model, Nick is partnered with someone with closer knowledge of the community, and Mercy, the perfect match in integrity, grew up in and lives in South Boston, where she is raising three children.

When she hears Nick Owen’s passion, she doesn’t miss a beat and adds her beautifully articulated experience.

“The skyrocketing expenses are leading to people running out of food. Imagine only getting through part of the month even when you are trying hard? Basic assistance or earnings just don’t stretch, and people need healthy food. That’s what’s different about the pop-ups. Nick supplied Bok Choy last week, and there were fresh vegetables and fruit, fish, chicken and things that make sense for the culture of families in Mary Ellen McCormack and Old Colony. It brings the food where the people are and that is part of why it works, too. You can see how people respond,” she said.

Since graduating from the Boston Public School, Snowden International, and getting an associate degree at Quincy College, Mercy Robinson observes and engages with the community she knows best.

“I worry that we won’t have real stakeholders here,” she said. The proud daughter of a father, who drives Uber, and mother who works as a community teacher following an in- home daycare program, Mercy grew up in what she describes as “projects but now called developments.”

She also has an intrinsic sense of the connection of food, transportation, healthcare, education and opportunity.

“It becomes impossible for some people to stay here, and that leads to a less committed community,” she said. Her observations hold no venom for “new” people but concern about affordability and investment in all.

“I will say that my greatest satisfaction is seeing people have what