News - July 2023

No parking is allowed along 14th avenue in front of the church/hall/school. The City will issue tickets of $50 for cars blocking driveways and $40 tickets for parking in a “No Parking” zone. Vehicles preventing residents from exiting their driveways will be towed. Please use one of our three parking lots when attending mass or other Parish events.

Great News! We have secured funding from the City of Sacramento’s River Friendly Landscaped program to fix and upgrade the sprinklers at the Parish School & Old Convent (used for Religious Education) to more water efficient sprinklers in the lawn, drip for some of the flower bed, a new unified irrigation controller, and replacement of inoperable and leaking valves. Part of the project will also be spreading mulch in the flower beds around the school and old convent. There will be plenty of volunteer opportunities during the project, if you are interested in helping out email [email protected] for more information, the project will be on-going through September Your continued support to our Development Fund has made this all possible.

Thank you to our new volunteers interested in our Parish Bereavement Committee. We continute to need new members.---------- Responsibilities include setup, serving catered meals and clean up in the parish hall for families after funerals.---------- If interested, please call the office at 916-456-7206.

Thank you to the following parishioners who volunteered to maintain our parish grounds.----------- Joanne Walker for Rose Garden around Blessed Mother ---------- Ray and Rose Raynor for the Semi-circles outside stairs to side door and the Semi-circles outside by the chapel stairs ----------- Daniel and Brain Walsh for Msgr. Corkell’s Roses behind church ---------- Gail Samcoff for Roses in front of Parish Hall ---------- We are still seeking a volunteer to maintain the area in front of main rectory doors on 13th avenue. ----- For more information and to sign up, call the rectory office @ 916-456-7206.

In April we finished installing a new fence and gates around the perimeter of our school grounds facing 14th Avenue. Security measures continue to be upgraded. We recently completed installing over 20 cameras inside and outside the church, the hall, school, old convent and grounds. New lock systems are now operational on all doors through out the parish grounds.