A run up to Waterbury, CT on a Sunday morning to pick up food and supplies donated for Haiti. Thank you to John, Mary Lou and Robert Connors and Matt and Thomas Wagner for all you efforts. Also to the communities that donate and pack the Island Harvest boxes with the rice/protein meals.

AUGUST 1, 2026 FRIAR SUPPLIER PICNIC- September 20, 2026 is the Annual Friar Supplier Picnic. It will be held at the Bethpage State Park in Bethpage. It will start at 12 noon. Lots of Friar and Sisters plus all of you Lay People. We will provide the place and we need you to provide the assorted food. We will provide water, drinks, paper plates, utensils, cups. Next month in your monthly letter will be a flyer that is very detailed. The Pavilion is enclosed so the picnic is ra

Thank you to Our Lady of Peace, Lynbrook for an ENTIRE barrel of peanut butter. This will go out in the next shipment to Haiti. Thank you to the smiling Eric for doing the pick up. God provided the beautiful skies.

St. Raphael Outreach in East Meadow loads us up with food for Haiti. Thank you to Ann and all the wonderful staff that work at Outreach.

The Order of Malta genourisly donated 1,200 labs of Rice to be shipped to Haiti.

FRIAR PICNIC- I think I found out the reason why we could not rent the Pavillion for our Picnic. The Ryder Cup was being held at Bethpage State Park. So I’m sure this is the reason. They were not taking any reservations for the month of September. We are already coming up with dates for next year so we will schedule a date for next September! FRIAR AND SISTER DONATIONS- These donations have been decreasing for the past 5 months. If you haven’t been giving for food for the Fri

1) PB and JELLY SANDWICHES Currently we are giving just peanut butter sandwiches out every morning to 225 students at Our Lady of Fatima School. Not every child gets a sandwich every day-. There are 750 kids in the school. I’m going to give 2 options: Option A: To feed 500 children this is what I need: BREAD- $1,800 JUICE AND WATER $700 PEANUT BUTTER $300 We hire 3 young teens at $50 per month and they work Monday to Friday. They start at 6 am and finish at 10am. We

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