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Celebrating Winona Catholic schools
Each year we celebrate the gift that Catholic schools are to our community and our nation. This year, we realize and celebrate how blessed our Winona Catholic community is and we celebrate in a special way.
Catholic Schools Week provides us the opportunity to acknowledge and give thanks for the many gifts that come to us as a result of our schools. First, we have the witness of parents and families choosing Catholic schools because faith and academic excellence are a priority for them. Second, we have graduates of our schools doing amazing things, now and in the future, with the education they have received. Our alums are world-class professionals, dedicated employees, committed parents, and valued volunteers in their communities and beyond. Third, we have incredibly generous benefactors who sustain our growth and enable our future: the Catholic parishes of Winona, parents, individual families, and foundations.
Winona Volunteer Services (WVS) Client Services Coordinator Kay Peterson understands the importance of getting meals to those in need because of her experiences with her father, she said. “I guess with my own father not necessarily being able to make meals all the time, I can just relate so much to how valuable it is to have someone drop off a cooked meal,” Peterson noted. “And if I wasn’t there helping my dad, then I would want a volunteer to be dropping off meals.”
Throughout the pandemic, a small army of workers and volunteers have worked, day in and day out, to get warm meals to Winonans in need. These workers and volunteers have dedicated their time to putting together and distributing meals at WVS, Winona Area Public Schools (WAPS) and the Winona Catholic Worker.