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Faith and fun speak the same language at deaf summer camp
Participants at Camp Overbrook: In Sign enjoy some water fun in the sun during a recent session at the late June-early July day camp, which is sponsored by the archdiocesan Deaf Apostolate and hosted by Saint Joseph s University. (Photo courtesy of Sister Kathleen Schipani, I.H.M.)
By Gina Christian • Posted July 6, 2021
An annual archdiocesan summer camp has just wrapped up two weeks of fun, faith formation and sign language fluency for children and teens who are deaf or hard of hearing.
From June 21 through July 2, Camp Overbrook: In Sign brought 46 participants to the Maguire Campus at St. Joseph’s University for full days of arts, crafts, games, prayer and presentations, all conducted in American Sign Language (ASL).
Vaccine clinics reach deaf, hard of hearing
Marcelle Baptiste of Yeadon receives her first dose of the Moderna COVID vaccine during a May 4 clinic for the deaf and hard of hearing community. The outreach was sponsored by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, the Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre, and St. Kevin Parish in Springfield, where the shots were administered. (Gina Christian)
By Gina Christian • Posted May 11, 2021
Two recent clinics co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Archdiocese have made COVID vaccinations available for several hundred persons who are deaf, deaf-blind or hard of hearing.
On May 1, the archdiocesan Office for Persons with Disabilities and the Deaf Apostolate (OPD/DA) teamed up with the City of Philadelphia and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide Pfizer shots at the Esperanza Community Vaccination Center, located in the Hunting Park section of Philadelphia.
Staff photo / J.T. Whitehouse
Daniel Wakefield, director of the Ursuline Sisters HIV / AIDS Ministry, shows the food pantry the ministry operates.
CANFIELD The Ursuline Sisters are celebrating the 20th year of the HIV / AIDS Ministry clinic that opened in May 2001.
The clinic and ministry that operate under the auspices of the Ursuline Sisters Center in Canfield has served many Valley families touched by HIV over the years.
The ministry’s director, Dan Wakefield, explained that the HIV / AIDS ministry actually has its roots almost 30 years ago.
“The ministry began in 1993 as a prayer support and bereavement ministry,” Wakefield said. “There were a lot of people affected by HIV in the area, and there was nothing available to them.”
Beth Wilkes: Wheeling’s Quiet Kindness Hero
In 1968 a young lady named Beth Wilkes boarded a bus from Buffalo, New York destined for Wheeling, West Virginia a city she would call home for the next 50 plus years. Beth, a recent graduate of Nazareth College in Rochester and daughter of pediatrician Dr. Frederick B. Wilkes and nurse Elizabeth M. Wilkes, was sent to Wheeling on assignment through the Americorps’ Volunteer in Service to America (VISTA) Program. Beth was a slight, quiet woman, but she had a heart and compassion far greater than anyone else.
Three years prior to her arrival in Wheeling, Beth found herself watching the 1965 March on Selma, Alabama which was broadcast around the country. This moment, which changed the trajectory of our country and changed the Civil Rights movement, also changed Beth Wilkes. On her breaks from college, she traveled to Selma where she regularly volunteered within the local community, specifically teaching African-American nursing s
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