Benefit Dinner At St. Vitus

Palm Sunday April 5, 2009

St. Vitus Parish, established in August 1893 as the first American Slovenian Roman Catholic parish in the state of Ohio and Diocese of Cleveland, will have a benefit dinner on Palm Sunday APRIL 5, 2009 at St. Vitus Auditorium, 6111 Lausche Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44103.  The dinner will consist of chicken or breaded boneless pork chops. Cost will be $12 adult and $6 for child 12 years or younger.

Parish or affiliated organziations of St. Vitus Altar Society, St Vitus Holy Name Society and St. Vitus KSKJ Lodge #25 along with families  involved in the "Mihevc Grant" scholarship program are co-sponsoring this dinner. Menu includes choice of chicken or breaded boneless pork chops, home-made soup, mashed potatoes, vegetable, salad, bread, choice of desert, and coffee or milk. Dinners will be served continuously from 11:00AM until 1:30PM.  Sit-down and take-out dinners will be available. Take-out dinners will be available in the auditorium social room.

The American Slovenian Catholic Union (KSKJ) via its "Matching Grant Funds Program" will provide a matching grant from this event is to support the Slovenian   Museum and Archives (SMA), Cleveland , Ohio . The SMA is a non-profit (501c3) organization whose mission is to preserve and share Slovenian ethnic identity and its various migration experiences in a sophisticated, multi-functional and interactive dwelling.  The general public is invited to attend this benefit dinner on April 5, 2009. Mass schedule is 9:00AM and 10:30AM. The traditional Slovenian "butare" (decorative and ornamental bundles of branches, greenery, etc symbolizing Palm Sunday and the beginning of spring) and Slovenian national attire will be part of the 10:30AM Mass. For ticket or other additional information contact the parish house at (216) 361-1444 or in the evening call Joe Hocevar at (216) 881-9586. Tickets will also be available at the door on April 5, 2009.

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Spomladsko dobrodelnjo Kosilo pri fare sv. Vida na 5. aprila 2009

Zdruzena drustva fare sv. Vida, Drustvo Najsvetejsega Imena, Oltarno drustvo, in KSKJ drustvo st 25, bodo na Cvetno nedeljo, 5. aprila 2009, pripravila skupno kosilo v solski dvorani od 11:00 dop., do 1:30 popoldne. Postregli bodo ocvrto svinjsko ali pisko pecenko. Dar je $12 za odrasle in $6 za otroke. Nakaznice dobite v predprodaji v farni pisarni (tel st 216-361-1444) ali clanih teh treh organizacij (poklicite tel. st 216-881-9586 Joe-a Hocevra-a), da se posluzijo te prilike. V Druzabni sobi bo tudi na razpolago kosilo, ki ga boste lahko vzeli domov.

Vsakdo, prosimo, naj pride in podpre to skupno prizadevanje! Prisrcno ste vabljeni, da pridite to kosilo 5. aprila 2009. Ta kosilo je tudi <<KSKJ Matching Grant>> in <<grant>> od KSKJ bo za podprati novi slovenski muzej in arhiva v Cleveland -u, Ohio-u. Slovenski muzej in arhiv (SMA) je nepridobitna ustanova, katere namen je na različne načine in v mnogih oblikah ohranjati kulturno dediščino in s tem narodno zavest Slovencev v Ameriki in Clevelandu.