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Catholic Daughters Make Prayer Blankets

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Members, front (all from left) Raymonda (Candy) Parchment and Nicole Duhamel, back, Anne Renaud Conway and Helen Willey, gather at St. Norbert Church in Hardwick on Make A Difference Day, October 26, to make prayer blankets for those in need of prayers. 
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HARDWICK – Catholic Daughters of the Americas Court St. Veronica No. 1273 participated in Make A Difference Day, October 26. Members gathered at St. Norbert Church in Hardwick to make prayer blankets, given to those in need of prayers. The fleece blankets are prayed over while being made and are blessed before being distributed. Members completed 41 blankets at their work bee. Over 500 prayer blankets have been distributed since the church’s Prayer Blanket Ministry began in 2007.  Prayer blankets have been sent to those as far away as California and Florida. 

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EDITOR
Paul Fixx

CIRCULATION
Dawn Gustafson

PRODUCTION
Sandy Atkins, Dawn Gustafson

SPORTS WRITERS
Ken Brown
Eric Hanson

PHOTOGRAPHER
Vanessa Fournier

CARTOONIST
Julie Atwood

CONTRIBUTORS
Trish Alley, Sandy Atkins, Brendan Buckley, Elizabeth Dow, Hal Gray, Henry Homeyer, Pat Hussey,Willem Lange, Cheryl Luther Michaels, Tyler Molleur, Liz Steel. John Walters

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