Thank you to all the brothers who helped with the coat drive this year. I was thoroughly impressed with the amount of items that were given by the parish this year.

For those who don’t know, the coats are brought to Otway county in southern Ohio where they are given to two clothing “stores” which are manned all by volunteers. The stores sell the items for “pennies on the dollar”. The money is first used to pay utilities for the buildings and then the extra money is given to the food bank which uses it to buy food that is given away to the poor down there.

This year we were able to fill a 3/4-ton pickup truck full of bags of clothing! It was amazing!  Thank you St. Patrick Church parishoners for your generousity and thank you Knights for your work in helping move all those bags.