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The daylilies were in bloom in the meditation garden at Our Lady of the Assumption parish in Latham in time for the July 14 feast day of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, known as the "Lily of the Mohawks."

Our Lady of the Assumption parish has been holding Monday-night barbecues and kickball games, a summer tradition....

At St. Mary's in Crescent, summer projects include landscaping and lighting near a statue of St. Mary and adding pavers and a bench; other landscaping, staining two porches, installing a fence at the rectory, doing yard work, cleaning floors and windows, painting garages and part of the parish center and updating the church's sound system....

St. Madeleine Sophie parish in Schenectady is replacing its parish center floor. The parish center was closed for asbestos abatement. TONI LAFOND, pastoral associate for administration, has accepted a new position at St. Paul's in Schenectady; LORRAINE DE CUYPER is no longer chairing the team that handles adult enrichment. Young people from the parish will be doing a workcamp -- building porches, stairs and wheelchair ramps and painting homes in Sunbury, Pa. -- in July....

MICHAEL SHARIFF of Our Lady of Hope in Fort Plain received the Catholic Daughters of the Americas' graduate award; he'll attend SUNY-Cobleskill in the fall to study agricultural engineering....

REV. CHARLES ANENE of Nigeria is visiting St. Ambrose parish in Latham until September. St. Mary's in Albany is welcoming REV. RAPHAEL WANJOHI of Kenya for the summer....

St. Madeleine Sophie School in Schenectady is holding its summer camp, "SMS Jungle," with 81 campers signed up for weeks of crafts, science, technology and literature. Some visited a museum butterfly exhibit; others planted a vegetable garden....

St. Kateri Tekakwitha parish in Schenectady has a new sister parish in Concordia, Mexico....

A summer film festival at St. John the Evangelist in Schenectady on Tuesday afternoons and evenings recently featured "Florence Nightingale"....

Parishioners at St. Mary's in Nassau are working on sprucing up the parish hall this summer. Parishioners DON AND SHARON ANSELMENT celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary....

"Safe Summer in the Park" in Cohoes benefited from the work of LORRAINE OKESON of Holy Trinity parish, who brought Frisbees, word searches, rosaries and religious medals to hand out. Holy Trinity parishioner TRISHA GAGNON was valedictorian for this year's graduating class at Cohoes High School....

Holy Mother and Child parish in Corinth/Lake Luzerne has ended its Sunday-night Mass in the summer, and also held a luncheon in memory of its late former pastor, REV. CHARLES GAFFIGAN....

All Saints parish in Albany announced that its basketball camp is back this summer, with girls and boys in grades two through seven getting together the mornings of July 27-31 to learn new skills....

St. Francis of Assisi parish in Northville and St. Joseph's in Broadalbin have been working on a capital campaign to renovate the Father Smith parish center; the goal of $38,000 is getting close.[[In-content Ad]]

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