SENIORS
OUR LADY OF THE VALLEY PARISH
Support for heart patients at Middleburgh 'Zipper Club'
The parish of Our Lady of the Valley in Middleburgh is the home of a unique new support group for parishioners and community members: the Zipper Club.
POLISH PRIDE
Diocesan employee also in polka band
Joyce Solimini doesn't sleep in on Saturdays. The associate director of the diocesan Office of Prayer and Worship has to get up early for band rehearsal: She sings with The Polish Night Players, a polka band.
SENIOR WITH A SCROLL SAW
Woodworker's cross will adorn northern parish
Walter Ulrich makes crosses and other items out of wood. He recently donated an intricate scrollwork cross to St. Joseph's parish in Greenfield Center that features the Stations of the Cross carved into the wood.
RECONNECTED CATHOLIC
Back to Church and behind the camera
"I just want to be known for doing good," said Richard Martin of St. Mary's parish in Coxsackie, who came back to the Church two years ago.
SHAKER POINTE VOLUNTEERS
Every Tuesday morning, about a dozen residents of Shaker Pointe independent senior living community in Latham head out to volunteer at the Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York, located in Troy.
AGING AND DISABILITIES
Elderly mom gets care from senior sister
Sister Mary Bartholomew Biviano, CSJ, is headed back to her hometown of Norwich, in the Diocese of Syracuse, to work at the parish she grew up in -- and, most importantly, to take care of her 94-year-old mother.
DEPAUL HOUSING
Diocese's senior housing offers community life in retirement
"I was totally against it," Jim Nash admitted, thinking back to four years ago, when he and his wife moved to Franciscan Heights Senior Community in Rensselaer, a part of the Albany Diocese's DePaul Housing Management Corporation.
TECH TALK
Parish class gives seniors computer skills
Seniors are learning new skills at Sacred Heart parish in Lake George: The parish is offering a free computer basic training class.
MECHANICVILLE/STILLWATER
Bocce keeps seniors active
For people in the know, the long, raised-bed wooden boxes in the backyard of All Saints on the Hudson parish in Mechanicville/Stillwater can only mean one thing: There's a bocce game coming.
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