Virtual Bulletin
get the scoop on the latest going-ons at our parish
Have you seen the latest masterpiece that Fr Ryan's friend, Mr. Cappozzoli has painted on the windows of the Ministry Center? Here is a look at this spring's collection! Mr. Cappozzoli has been blessing our parish over the past year or so with his wonderful renditions of various biblical and faith scenes through the liturgical year. Thank you for your beautiful, inspiring artwork!
The retreat is currently full! If you would like to be put on our wait list, please email Cindy Blank at cmhex40@hotmail.com.
Send all cards and goodies to the Ministry Center or Church by Friday, April 23rd and we will have them delivered to Fr Ryan on the big day!
You can also mail to 135 S Buesching Road, Lake Zurich 60047
We will take late drop offs too all week!
Many thanks to Larry & Mary Jo Butz and OEO Energy Solutions for their generous donation to Fr. Ryan and the Parish of all the new LED lights in the Ministry Center (1st and 2nd floor), entire parish school building, and Fr. Valker Hall. Not only does it look brighter and lighter, but it will reduce our energy consumption by an average of 65% year after year!
This is a beautiful gift in honor and memory of Megan Butz
THE REGION 6 SCIENCE FAIR RESULTS ARE IN!
This year's Regional Fair was quite different than in years past because it was completely virtual, with no opportunity for a question and answer session. Normally two judges agree on a single score for a student whereas this year a single judge provided a score based on a review of their written report and narrated slide presentation. Based on their score, they are provided a Participation, Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award. This year all Gold awards qualify for the State IJAS Exposition.
Please let your students know how proud we are of them!
ILLINOIS JUNIOR ACADEMY OF SCIENCE (IJAS) REGIONAL RESULTS 2021
Andrea Fernandez - Battery Size vs. Time - Silver Award
Abby Hannah - Surfin' on Radio Waves - Gold Award
Lilly Kinsey & Meghan Wiseman - How Music Affects Accuracy -Silver Award
Philip Kruglov - Green Energy - Gold Award
Annabella Ori - Does What You Think Something Is, Affect How You Smell It? - Silver Award
Joseph Quast - Is this Helpful for Blind People? - Silver Award
Evan Villinski - The Corked Bat: Powerful or Pointless? -Gold Award
Elizabeth Vinnes - Do the Movies We Watch Affect How We Sleep? - Silver Award
Illinois Junior Academy of Science (IJAS) State Qualifiers for 2021
Abby Hannah - Surfin' on Radio Waves
Philip Kruglov - Green Energy
Evan Villinski - The Corked Bat: Powerful or Pointless?
Meghan Wiseman - Which Preservative Keeps Gala Apples Freshest the Longest?
Meghan Wiseman's project from last year, Which Preservative Keeps Gala Apples Freshest the Longest?, qualified for the State Fair in Spring of 2020. Since the State Fair was canceled last Spring due to the Pandemic, her project automatically qualifies for this year's State Fair.
Congratulations and I hope your students enjoy a well-deserved Spring Break!
Rita Salit, 6-8th Grade Science
The St. Francis Eagles 8th grade boys volleyball team defeated St. Raymond in the Northwest Suburban Catholic Conference tournament championship on May 13. This capped off a 20-0 season in both conference and tournament play, and a remarkable 39-1 stretch over two years for these boys.
From Left to Right: Coach Amy Whelan, Colin Whelan, Will Niese, Brad Schaefer, Dylan Franada, Adam Galdoni, Colin Ulbrich, Spencer Kinsey, Andy Lawitz
THANK YOU!
Over the past year, FF/PM Jason Kraus and his team has provided Stop-the-Bleed, First AId & CPR training for following St. Francis de Sales Parish staff and volunteers! Great job everybody and thank you for taking the time to learn great skills to help keep our Parish a safe place!
SFdS STAFF TRAINED BY THE LZ FIRE DEPT IN 2019 AS OF 8/22/2019
STB FA CPR
Fr. David Ryan X X X
Tami Anderson X X X
Laura Angelini X X X
Cathy Chiarelli X X X
Traci Dahlinger X X X
Laurie Haas X X X
Karin Jurczak X X X
Pam Lynch X X X
Catherine McGlauchlin X X
Mimi McGlauchlin X X X
Julie Morones X X X
Jerry Perez X X
Judy Reilly X X X
Pat Stewart X
Chris Tovar X X
Our students had a very successful State Science Fair yesterday at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, IL.
Please congratulate these young students, when you see them for their hard work and contributions to scientific research! I'm so proud of them! - Rita Salit
Marry Titterton [Astronomy] Light Pollution - Gold Award & Best in Category ($50 cash)
Mathew Gonzalez & Spencer Kinsey [Behavioral Science] Does Color Affect Taste? - Gold Award
Kendall Freeland [Microbiology] Do Natural or Chemical Disinfectants Work Better? - Silver Award
Katie Agrella [Botony] Does More Carbon Dioxide Make a Plant Grow Faster? - Bronze Award
Thank you for your support of the Lake County Right to Life Annual Mother’s Day Rose Sale. We raised $1,238 to support advocacy efforts that all life is precious and a gift from God. A special thank you to our volunteers: Mary Stubstad, Joan & Emily Deichstetter. Janet Gozzola, Mary Flanagan, Cathy, Jim, Nick & Anne Mastores, Tami, Gia & Jeremy Anderson, Mike Carlino, Olivia Georgen, Rick, Kelly & Natalie Corrigan
THANK YOU to all who participated in the Back-to-School program! We again had a wonderful year with 400 backpacks donated to needy children! Because of your generosity, these children will start school with a new backpack and the school supplies they need for a successful year. Thanks to the staff in the ministry center for their help moving backpacks whenever we needed it, and to Julie Rohrbach, Linda Nelson and Diane Larrabee for their help on all the weekends. A special thanks to Siobhan O’Leary and her staff at Scotsman Ice Systems for their generous donation of backpacks to our drive. The backpacks were distributed to low income children through our St. Vincent de Paul Food Pantry, Our Lady of Tepeyac and Catholic Charities, just in time for the first day of school. We are grateful for your contributions to support these children and for giving them a chance for a bright new future.
We are grateful for your contributions to support these children and for giving them a chance for a bright new future.
Yolanda & Phil Strutzel celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married August 11th, 1968 at Hammerschmidt Chapel at Elmhurst College and blessed in the Church at Saint Domitti in Hillside, Illinois, Father Ryan blessed their marriage on August 11th, 2018 at the noon Chapel Mass and have been parishioners since 2002.
Bart & Terry Eiduke celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on August 10th,1968 at St Luke’s in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on August 12th, 2018 and have been parishioners since 2010.
Nereo & Libby Blasevich celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on September 28 at St Ladislau in Chicago, Illinois. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on September 29 at 12:30pm Mass.
Rich & Carol Spiekermann celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary. They were married at the Cathedral of the Risen Christ in Lincoln, Nebraska. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on August 10th, 2018.
Tom & Mary Carol McGanley celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary. They were married at St Barnabas in Chicago, Illinois. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on August 19, 2018 at the 9:30 am Mass.
Harry & Phyllis Cione celebrated a recent Wedding Anniversary. They were married on August 29th at St Isaac Jogues in Niles, Illinois. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on August 29, 2018 at the 7am Mass. Harry & Phyllis have been parishioners since 1976.
George & Mary Beth Webb celebrated their 40th Wedding Anniversary. They were married St Mary’s in New Haven, Connecticut. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on October 21, 2018 at the 8am Mass.
David & Audrey Raclaw celebrated their 60th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on at Immaculate Conception in Chicago, Illinois. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on June 15 at the 5pm Mass. David & Audrey have been parishioners since 2016.
Terry & Peggy Saunders celebrated their 46th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on June 17 at St John Brebeuf in Niles, Illinois. They have been parishioners since 1983.
Roger & Cindy Blank celebrated their 44th Wedding Anniversary. They were married on July 5th at Immaculate Conception in Chicago, Illinois. Father Ryan blessed their marriage on July 5th, 2019 at Good Shepard Hospital and have been parishioners since 1981.
if you have a special anniversary to celebrate and would like Fr Ryan to give a blessing, please reach out to the Ministry Center for more information! 847 438 6622 or email parishoffice@stfrancislz.org
Elizabeth Kalafut
Lake Zurich, IL // Lake Zurich Service Unit
Keep the African Girls at School
When Elizabeth missed school for an extended time due to illness, she realized how hard it was to get caught up. Through conversation with a mentor, she learned about cultural obstacles girls her age face in Africa and how those struggles increase once girls reach puberty. Elizabeth learned an underlying issue was how girls in underdeveloped countries often don’t have access to female sanitary products. She located Bookfriends, an organization looking to launch an initiative to encourage girls to remain in class simply by having monthly hygiene supplies available. Hygiene packs would be added to their shipments of books to schools in developing countries. Elizabeth worked with Bookfriends to produce a portion of the kits needed. She developed a volunteer team that included a church sewing group and a videographer. She then began to educate others about her project through speaking at church events and to local youth groups. She also created awareness for her project through social media and a YouTube video. During the time of her Gold Award project, 1,550 kits were sent to Kenya, and 3,078 kits were sent to Tanzania!
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From Lizzie: For my project, I partnered with Bookfriends, a local not-for-profit organization, founded in 2004 to send donated textbooks to schools in Africa. When the founder Paulette Kutchat learned that the African girls were dropping out of school after they reached puberty due to a lack of feminine hygiene products she decided to add hygiene kits for the girls to each shipment of books.
For my project, I assisted Bookfriends in the launch of their African Girls Project. The bake sale that you allowed me to hold in the Fall of 2016 was the starting point for my project. Many staff members at St. Francis including Cathy Chiarelli and Traci Dallinger, gave me advice, encouragement, and support. Many Girl Scouts and Religious Ed families donated baked goods for the sale. Through the generosity of the St. Francis community, I raised $1450, plus many ladies donated fabric. Also, some of my first volunteer sewers were members of the “Threads of Faith” group led by Donna Miller.
These funds from the bake sale were used to purchase fabric, underwear for the girls and plastic bags for the kits. During the time of my project, Bookfriends sent 1500 kits to Kenya in 2017 and 3078 kits to Tanzania in 2019. Bookfriends has now built a network of “padsters” who are currently making more pads for future shipments.
After receiving a shipment of books and hygiene kits Faith M., the headmistress and a teacher of a rural school in Kenya, shared the following observation:
“We see our girls coming to school now with less fear, definitely more confidence now that they have monthly supplies. And what a difference that confidence and regular class attendance makes in their educational progress.”
Throughout my project, I learned so much about the importance of education and why it is imperative all children, both boys AND GIRLS are educated. Last summer with the help of Sue Messmer, who I met when she volunteered to sew, I was able to summarize this information in this video which can be viewed on YouTube at HERE.
Click on a term below to read more about it!
