t eanc 0 VOL. 43, NO. 29 • Friday, July 30, 1999
FALL RIVER, MASS.
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CHEER CAMP - The Bishop Feehan High School varsity cheerleaders, under the direction of moderator Lisa Serak, join with their campers at the school's annual summer camp. Feehan offers a variety of summer camps including volleyball, basketball and cheering.
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Starry Summer Night' brightens students' hopes for need-based scholarships. By JOHN F. KEARNS, JR. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATlONS
FATHER EDWARD J. Byington, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church, Hyannis, shows off the new Shrine to St. Francis. A renovation project was recently completed at the church and has brought even more people to the popular Cape Cod parish. (Anchon'Gordon photo)
Extensive renovations at C·ape Cod church blessed By MIKE GORDON ANCHOR STAFF
HYANNIS - Almost two years of work and planning came together July 18 for the community of S1. Francis Xavier Parish as it officially reopened its doors for worship following a nine-month, $1.4 million dollar renovation and expansion project of its church. More than 1,000 people helped
celebrate the special occasion including Bishop Sean P. O'Malley, OFM, Cap., who was on hand to celebrate Mass and bless the newly renovated building. Many pastors from neighboring parishes including Our Lady ofVictory, S1. Pius X, Holy Trinity, and S1. Mary of the Assumption also concelebrated the 5 p.m. Mass. Tum to page 13 - Cape Cod
MASHPEE - In spite of a little drizzle outside, the July 23 evening scholarship fund-raising gala, "A Starry Summer Night," shined nonetheless, raising more than $300,000 for the S1. Mary's Education Fund. The fund provides need-based scholarships to
ALL FOR CHARITY - Enjoying the July 23 fund-raising gala on Cape Cod that benefited the St. Mary's Education Fund, are, from left, Jeannie and Michael Falzone, Susan Mullen, Marta Downing and event Chairman Suzanne Downing. (Photo by John E. Kearns, Jr.)
students at Catholic schools throughout the Fall River Diocese. Some 250 people attended the dinner at the Willowbend Club in Mashpee, which, according to Chairman Suzanne Downing, filled the room to capacity. She said the evening was successful "far beyond her expectations." Among measurable successes of the night was the fact that Downing, along with her co-chairmen, Sheila Feitelberg and Phyllis MacNeil, and a committee of 14, were able to meet the challenge offered by three principal benefactors of the event. Tum to page 13 - Education