Holy Trinity Catholic Church at 901 North Holmes Avenue, Indianapolis, IN 46222 US - Summarization Parish Partners Neighborhood Clean-up Day Saturday, September 13, 2008

In the heart of Haughville on the corner of North Holmes Avenue & West St. Clair Street on the near westside of Indianapolis, Indiana.

Summarization

Parish Partners Neighborhood Clean-up Day

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Parish Partners Logo

Several people from or associated with Holy Trinity participated in the Clean-up. They were Father John, Ray Brooking, Carol Douglas, Ed Halloran, Kathy Ivancic, Jason Kashman, Joe Lazar, Pat Murrell and four of her girls from St. Catherine of Siena, Junior Daughter Court #109, Steve and Nancy Rasmussen, Dan and Patty Sebanc, Jerry Watson and GiGi and Bill Bartholomew. Father John was our spiritual leader; and, he was in and around and here and there making sure everything was running smoothly. Ray Brooking and Dan Sebanc drove pick-up trucks with other volunteers, including Jason Kashman to pick up filled trash bags, trash, and miscellaneous and sundry items, etc. Carol Douglas and Patty Sebanc helped to organize and serve the sandwiches, chips, apples and drinks. Ed Holloran, along with Joe Luzar and Jerry Watson, a Hispanic mother, Maria, and her son from St. Anthony and a father and son from St. Barnabas worked very hard on Kathy Ivancic’s team, which planted 18 mums at Holy Trinity. Six burgundy and yellow mums were planted on each side of the steps up to Holy Trinity and 3 rust colored mums were planted between the shrubs on each side of the entrance to Bockhold Hall.

While the mums were being planted and weeds were being pulled, other members of the team cleaned the litter from the vacant lot at the corner of King and St. Clair, and other members shoveled the debris from the curb of the street on St. Clair from Holmes to King.

Pat Murrell and her girls, Steve and Nancy Rasmussen and GiGi and Bill Bartholomew worked on various other teams. Steve Rasmussen’s team worked on Father John’s pet project of having the overgrowth of trees, bushes, shrubs and weeds cleared from over the sidewalk area just south of Walnut Street on the west side of Holmes.

The entire project was divided into 16 teams, with each team having at least one leader and several other team members. Eighty-four people’s names were on the sign-in sheet. They came from Holy Trinity, St. Anthony, St. Barnabas, St. Christopher, St. Jude and Roncalli. Others may have signed in if additional paper had been available. All 120 T-shirts were distributed. Several people did not receive T-shirts as our supply ran out. There were 130 sandwiches available at lunch time, with only 9 being left over.

Five members of Team Ivancic had other afternoon commitments and had to leave before lunch was served. Other people may have had to leave early also. Based on this information, the numbers of people that I saw and the work that was completed, I feel it may be easy to say we could have had at least 150 volunteers and maybe even a few more.

God provided us with a very beautiful day for our clean-up project!

All of my fellow Parish Partners have agreed the project was a success and we look forward to start planning for next year’s project right away.

- Kathy Ivancic

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Go to our Home Page, on the right side of the page, under the (blue) category, Parish Partners, click on Neighborhood Clean-up Day, September 13, 2008.

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