The Giving Trees with their tags are out in the church for one more weekend. Please pick up a gift tag or two as a reminder to support this annual project. Collection of your gifts will be the weekend of December 09-10 or delivered to the Parish Office anytime.

Parking Lot Update: The parking lot is open and ready for use. We are very excited to be back in business. The parking lot lights will be reconnected soon. A special thank you to the parking lot committee members and our leader, Mike Wendzinski, for directing the efforts to get this done. Also, a special thank you to Verheyden’s Funeral Home for their support and patience throughout this process. We are most grateful for you sharing your parking lot with us during this process.

The final course of asphalt was being applied upon our return from Italy and the following couple of days. We expect striping to be applied this weekend, Saturday November 4. We will work through final punch lists in the days to follow. Thank you for everyone’s support and patience. Once again, a special thank you to Verheyden’s Funeral Home for their support and patience throughout this process. We are most grateful for you sharing your parking lot with us during this process. Thank you for your support!

I expect one or two courses of asphalt will have been applied by the time you read this article. Weather permitting, they planned to lay the asphalt last week and pour the cement collars around the storm catch basins. We are in the home stretch! Thank you for your support and patience through this large parish project. Thank you for your support!

Cement stabilization was performed last week, and final grading should be completed as I write this article. Cement collars were also scheduled to be completed last week. I am hopeful that our first course of asphalt will be going down this week.