Gros Morne

August 15th was a Red-Letter Day at St. Timothy’s Convent. The community joined with Sr. Priscilla to celebrate her 60th anniversary of Religious Profession.

Last week we reported on the corn mill and mixer now being used at the Campeche (Gros Morne) hen house to produce feed for our 1,000 hens.

Jesus-Mary School - Gros Morne, Haiti: Maryknoll Lay Missioner Abby Belt brought us a DVD copy of "Taking Root" about Wangari Maathai's life and the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya. So, on June 5, International Day for the Environment, the Lekol Jezi-Mari student body learned about Wangari Maathai and her Greenbelt Movement by watching “Taking Root”, on the screen by the red door.

On January 12th (the anniversary of the big 2010 Haiti earthquake), the Montfortain Fathers celebrated the ordination of two young priests who were ordained in our parish church.

On Saturday, October 6, at about 8:11 PM a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck northwest Haiti, its epicenter about 11 miles outside the city of Port-de-Paix.  It was followed by strong aftershocks that were felt as far away as Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital. So far, seventeen people have died; 353 houses were destroyed; and 7430, damaged.  However, with time these figures will probably rise.

Here are the smiling faces of the 300 campers who attended Camp Claudine this July.

Tee Shirts For Soccer Finals – Roger Jean, (aka Tiden), our friend and long-time main driver, unloaded the parish twinning program sea container yesterday and this morning the truck was unloaded here in Gros Morne and in Garcin. Our yearlong QUEST volunteer, Sofia Pascual, who started the after school sports program, brought the tee shirts to the boys' final games today.

Pictured, Lekòl Jezi-Mari students in Gros Morne, receive visitors who bring letters from their pen pals at St. Jude School, in Chattanooga, TN.

In this edition:

• NEWS FROM SR. VIVIAN IN HAITI
• VISITATION TO SAN DIEGO

LETTER FROM SCHOOL CHILDREN IN HAITI...