Community Commission Meeting of

Carol DeMayo asked that the Community Commission take on the task of producing a list of families or people that would be willing to host coffee hours for special occasions - sort of a HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE. An example of the need for this was when the Music Director retired, the Staff wanted to put on a coffee hour after mass and they had difficulty finding anyone to do it. If a list was put together then it would be easier to find people to do such things. Carol suggested that either families do it together or groups of 2-3 people. We thought that we’d expand on this concept and schedule two coffee hours per month, one after the 8:30 mass, and the other after the 10:30 mass. We would do this on different weekends and not interfere with other scheduled coffee hours, i.e. Meals on Wheels.

The first scheduled Coffee Hour by the Community Commission will be Sunday, September 21 after the 8:30am mass. Karen Jolin and family have volunteered to serve as hosts. This will entail ordering and picking up donuts & making the coffee. The next one was to be on September 28 but another commission is having one then. Should we schedule the next one for October 5 after the 10:30 mass? At the first couple of Coffee hours we will have a signup for people so that we can add them to our “Coffee Hour Volunteer” list. We should probably also advertise this in the bulletin in case others want to be added to the list.

The second piece of business that we dealt with was the continuing discussion of the “Senior Activities Committee” that we would like to form. We decided to schedule a meeting for Wednesday, September 24 at 7:00pm in the Parish Center. We’ll advertise in the bulletin and invite anyone who is interested in being on the committee. We hope to get some people interested and if we’re lucky, someone will decide to run or co-chair the group.