January Activities
January Activites will include: A "White Elephant"party at the regular monthly meeting, participation in monthly Eucharistic Adoration, delivery of donated Panera Products to local charities 10+ times per month, assisting with the Greater Chicago Food Depository with food distribution to those in need, and other activities.
December Activities
December Activities included: a Christmas Party for children, assisting the Knights with the joint Auxiliary/Knights Adult Christmas Party, our annual Christmas Bake Sale the weekend before Christmas, our annual Ladies Christmas appetizer party and cookie exchange at Alexian Brothers Office Complex, assisting the St. Thomas of Villanova Woman's Club by providing material for them to use to make pillow cases for children with cancer, monthly Eucharistic Adoraton, delivery of donated Panera products 10+ times per month to local chairites, delivery of desserts to the home for retired religious at the Society of the Divine Word Missions, and sponsoring families at St. Theresa and St. Thomas of Villanova for Christmas with food and gifts.
November Activities
November Activities included the delivery of Panera donations 10+ times duing the month to local charities, sponsoring three families for Thanksgiving one from each of the churches in our council, collection of donations for Operation Christmas Child, participation in the PLMA Food Drive which included 150 volunteers collecting an estimated 11 tons of food and other products and distributing them to local charities, participation in monthly Eucharistic Adoration, assisting the Knights with the Spaghetti dinner, providing desserts to the St. Theresa Hospitality Ministry for Welcoming Sunday, and a Pound Auction Fund raiser. Woman of the Month was Mary Kittler.
October Activities
October Activities inlcuded assisting the Knights of Columbus with a pancake breakfast; donating deserts and assisting the American Legion with a BINGO for blind veterans; First Friday Eucharistic Adoration; distribution of donated bread and baked goods 10 times during the month to: Appalachia Service Project in Chavies KY, Maryville Academy, The Carmelite Monastery, St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, St. Theresa, St. Thomas Food Pantry, and others; supporting the St. Theresa Women's Club with their annual flower show fundraiser, providing baked goods to the St. Theresa Hospitality Ministry for Welcoming Sunday, participation in the food distribution of the Chicago Food Depository and conducting a membership drive at St. Thomas of Villanova. Woman of the Month was Connie West.
September Activities
September activities included: Participation in the St. Theresa Ministry Faire and Feast Day Mass; assisting the Knights of Columbus with the annual Tootsie Roll Drive; cookbook donations to numerous charities; delivery of donated Panera bread and baked good 10 times during the month to Christian Appalacia Project in Hagerhill KY, St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, St. Theresa, St. Thomas Food Pantry, the Carmelite Monastery, Maryville Academy, Greencastle of Palatine and others; assisting the St. Vincent de Paul Society with pick-up and delivery of hundreds of packages of pasta for numerous charities; Eucharistic Adoration; assisting St. Thomas of Villanova with their 50th anniversary celebration. Our guest speaker for September was a representative of St. Thomas of Villanova's Prison Outreach Ministry.
August Activities
August Activities included: assisting the St. Thomas Food Pantry and the Greater Chicago Food Depository with distribution of food to those in need; monthly Eucharistic Adoration; a Bingo fundraiser at our regular monthly meeting; delivery of donated baked goods from Deer Park Panera Bread to local food pantries and charities 10 times during the month; delivery of collected school supplies to Palatine Township offices for the Apple Tree Campaign; sales of cookbooks to raise money for charities, donating a gift basket to St. Thomas of Villanova for their golf outing.
July Activities
July activities included: cookbook sales at local farmers markets, an Hawaiian themed party at our monthly meeting at which time many members were recognized for their contributions to the Auxiliary, church and community; twice weekly delivery of donation of baked goods to food pantries and local charities, donations to numerous charities of 100% of the sale of cookbooks; participation in monthly Eucharistic Adoration; collection of school supplies to be distributed to needy children through the Palatine Township Apple Tree Campaign.
June Activities
June Activities included donations to: St. Thomas of Villanova Ministry of Care in memory of Auxiliary member Marilyn Korney who passed away; donation of two pews for the newly renovated St. Thomas Church; donations of albs to Immaculate Conception Church and also to St. Theresa Church; donations of cases of cookbooks to various charities; selling cookbooks at Farmers Markets around the area; delivery of donated bread and food to local charities 10+ times over the course of the month; joining forces with the St. Vincent de Paul Society in packing 41 cases of food through the Feed My Starving Children organization - enough to feed 24 children for 1 full year!; installtion of new officers for the upcoming year at a joint installation dinner with the Knights of Columbus; providing desserts to the St. Theresa Hospitality Committee for Welcoming Sunday; and providing desserts for the funeral reception at STOV.
May Activities
May activities included assisting the St. Theresa Respect Life Committee with the Mother's Day Flower Sale for the benefit of The Women's Center, assisting the KC with the MH dinner, monthly pick ups and delivery of Panera baked goods to local charities, election of new officers for the 2011/2012 year, a champagne and appetizer party at the regular monthly meeting in celebration of an award and certificates won at the state convention.
April Activities
April activities inlcuded the deliveries of Panera baked good donations 2-3 times per week to local charities, a donation of cookbooks to the Carmelite gift shop at Holy Hill in Wisconsin, donating deserts and helping the American Legion Post in Palatine with the dinner and bingo for blinded veterans, donating cookbooks to the IL State Ladies Auxiliary for raffle prizes during the 2011 State Convention, additional cookbook donations, assisting the KC with Lent fish fries, Eucharistic adoration of the Blessed Sacrament and attending the IL State KC Convention in Springfield. The Auxiliary April meeting was an appetizer party/baby shower.
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