[Magdalen] pencils

[Jay Weigel]

For several years, while I was at St. Barnabas, the Diocese of E. TN
participated in a backpack project in which you chose a grade level and
stuffed a backpack for a boy or girl in that grade level. The backpacks
were brought in on a specific Sunday and blessed, then dropped off at a
central location from which they were distributed to children in need. We
had near 100% participation in our little congregation, and it was such fun
to go and pick out the supplies. I understand the project is no longer in
existence. Pity, that.

Up here we have "Stuff the Bus" which is the same sort of thing, but not at
all personal.I've participated, but it's not as much fun.

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, to be perfectly honest, although I've heard "Michigander" all my
> life, I never connected it with the bird!!
> Just thought it was that way because it sounded ok and got the point
> across...like "flatlander."
>
> > On Sep 8, 2015, at 2:40 PM, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm one of the 12% who prefer "Michiganian." Democratic governors have
> > ended to prefer this as well. There's no official term, but the U.S.
> > Government Printing Office prefers "Michiganian." I guess I'm the
> > overly serious type who doesn't like being called something like a
> > large poopy game bird. But what am I talking about, as I'm an
> > Illinoisan?
> >
> > Scott, a native Wisconsinite who thinks "Wisconsinite" sounds good
> > even though it could be a brand of luggage or lawn fertilizer.
> >
> >> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:22 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> So are men from Michigan Michiganders
> >> and women Michigeese?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Scott R. Knitter
> > Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>