October 23, 2008

Guest: Susie Paloma, Manager of St. Mary Family Center
Fill with Phil: Phil McGrath
Congratulations to Today's Winner of "The Pirates who Don't Do Anything, A Veggie Tale Movie": Julie Tull

Today Deacon Rick and Jenny spoke with Susie Paloma, Manager of the St. Mary Family Center in Des Moines. The St. Mary Family Center is one of the two Catholic Charities Organizations that will benefit from KWKY and Dowling's First Annual Diaper Dash. Friday, October 24th, bring donations of Diapers: sizes 4-6, Baby Wipes, and Milk-Based Infant Formula with Iron to Dowling's last home game against Johnston. The donations wil be loaded into trucks and transported to the St. Mary Family Center as well as the St. Joseph Emergency Family Shelter.

Susie shared with us a little of the mission of the St. Mary Family Center. The St. Mary Family Center serves an average of 850 families a month. They give out 25-26,000 food items monthly. As well as food items they give out diapers and formula. To receive diapers a family must register their baby with the St. Mary Family Center. At this point, St. Mary's Family Center has over 1,000 babies registered. These families can then receive a week's worth of diapers once a month to help them get by. So help the St. Mary Family Center and the St. Joseph Emergency Center by brining your donations to Dowling's home football game on October 24, 2008.

We also had an installment of Fill with Phil.
Phil's opening joke was in the spirit of Halloween:

-"What do you call three intoxicated ghosts on Halloween?"
-"Three sheets in the wind."

Phil also spoke with us about the St. Pius X Parish Mission which will be taking place from Sunday, October 26-Thursday, October 30. Two Redemptorist Missionaries will be coming in for the occassion: Fr. Tony Judge and Fr. Gan Nugyen

The mission has different topics every night with the general focus being to renew the parish's commitment to proclaim the good news. Everyone is welcome to this Parish Mission. There will be a social every night after the Mission. The Mission will kick off on Sunday, October 26 with a Potluck at St. Pius X at 5:30.

Phil left us with one final joke, which may not be as funny in print:

"An elderly man was at a party with some of his friends and he began to complain a little. 'Well, I've sure gotten old: my back hurts, I've got doctors poking around my colon, my right eye twitches when it rains, I've lost my hair and my gut's sticking out. I may need a hip replacement, my knee is acting up, and I can't feel my right foot anymore. From day to day I don't know if I can walk, let alone move my arms. It takes me twice as long to go anywhere and if I hear what you have to say you're lucky....

But at least I still have my Iowa Driver's License.'"