Fundraisers

When the parish bought the current church building in 1967 it cost $67,000. In today's dollars that would be some $470,000 according to this inflation calculator. A lot of money! So the people of the church initiated a series of fundraising events that over the years represented a lot of work, a fair amount of money for the church, and sometimes some good fun too, judging by some of the photos. Jane Wargo recalled in an interview for example that in the 1960s they held a number of rummage sales in the Grange hall in Chili.


 Another good fundraiser done for a number of years in the 1970s is shown in the photographs here. This was the food stand that they ran every summer at the Monroe County Fair. Shown below are Al and Cora Joseph.

In the following photo we see Bill Cavalcanti and Cora Joseph.