NEWS
News from the Parish of
Saint Patrick's Church, Railton and Saint Mary's Church, Odessa,
as well as the Archdiocese of Kingston.
The parishioners of St. Patrick Railton donated 520 pounds of food to the Southern Frontenac Community Services Food Bank in Sydenham from their Lenten food drive in April. Thank you to St. Patrick’s Catholic School students for decorating the bags with an Easter theme and to parishioners for donating food and filling the bags. Thanks also to those at coffee on Sunday who helped take out the food to the cars for delivery to the food bank.
On January 30, 2024, a cheque for $2,496.90 was delivered to the Southern Frontenac Community Services (SFCSC) food bank in Sydenham from the St. Patrick's Knights of Columbus. Another cheque for $700 was given to the Partners in Mission food bank in Kingston on January 25th.
Jim Hase presenting donation, with l-r Heather Rogers the SFCSC executive director, Emily Flynn, a parishioner and food bank volunteer and Jody Riddle, the food bank coordinator.
St. Patrick Railton and St Mary's Odessa donated 490 lbs of food to the local food bank (SFCSC) in December 2023. Items were collected in bags decorated for the season by students from St. Patrick Catholic School in Harrowsmith.
Emily Flynn, Pauline Hogan and Patsy and Jim Hase pose behind 490 lbs of donated food. At Right is Jody Riddle, the food bank supervisor at the SFCSC food bank.
The congregation at St. Patrick Railton and St Mary's Odessa collected 638 lbs of food donations for Lent in bags decorated by students from St. Patrick Catholic School in Harrowsmith, delivered to the food bank at Southern Frontenac Community Services Corporation (SFCSC) April 11, 2023.
