My Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
Next Sunday, August 9th, St John Vianney will be celebrating our Feast Day Celebrations. There will be a Eucharistic Procession around our Church after the 10:30am Mass with a Parish Luncheon following. Please join us if you are able to. August 9th is also the Independence Day of my home Country of Singapore where we got our independence from the British in 1965.
Mary Our Queen Human Needs Committee is hosting their Annual Garage Sale from July 31st to the 2nd of August. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mary Parizek and all our volunteers who made this possible. All proceeds from our Garage Sale go to support families in need in our Parish. Thank you for your generosity.
We are also having a Christmas in August at St John Vianney. In the narthex there is a Christmas Wishlist tree with ornaments requesting gift cards that will support our Outreach program for the less fortunate. On each ornament is a prayer that we invite you to pray for the individual or family that you will be supporting. We thank you for your generosity.
We are preparing for the opening of our School at Mary Our Queen. Over the summer we have been making repairs, painting various spaces that needed it, cleaning, remodeling four classrooms, installing a new PA system for the School. Our hope is for us to complete the remodeling of all our classrooms in the main School building and have ceiling tiles and new lighting installed in the hallways of the main School building within the next three years. This will update the main School building – a project that was started in 2020 beginning with the replacement of the HVAC units of our School and the replacement of its windows.
We started the new boilers for the school and Kenny Center this week. Hopefully with everything going well, we will be ready for the new School year. We are also in the midst of upgrading the controls for the HVAC in the Kenny Center to complete the upgrades for the control system for the campus. This is also part of a campus wide mechanical replacement project. With the boilers replaced, what is left is the air conditioning of the Kenny Center which continues to run well. We will continue to evaluate it and schedule its replacement in due time.
I am still looking to plant a few trees at St John Vianney Parish to replace some of the trees we had to remove over the years. The cost of having a tree planted is about $600. I am hoping to plant four trees or a few more this summer. If you are able to help us defray some of that cost I would appreciate it.
I am also looking to plant about five spruce trees by the eastside of our parking lot by the fence line at Mary Our Queen. We will have the existing bushes taken down and will have the new trees planted by the existing spruce trees. The cost of having a tree planted is about $600. I am also looking to plant two or three spruce trees by the Rectory. If you are able to help us defray some of that cost, I would appreciate it.
Blessings for the summer, Fr Marc
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