Yates-Ontario-Wayne Features
- May 4, 2012
- Sister, Ontario charity team up
Janice Ann Marie Cooke recently realized her lifelong dream of becoming a woman religious. With that goal accomplished she's now looking forward to helping a good friend achieve her own dream and by
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- April 30, 2012
- Newark church hosts concert
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If there's any truth to the oft-quoted notion that singing is praying twice, then there were an awful lot of prayers coming from St. Michael Church in Newark on April 15.
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- March 26, 2012
- Women bond at lunchtime chats
- By Jennifer Burke/Catholic Courier
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- February 3, 2012
- Migrants honor Our Lady of Guadalupe
MARION -- Octavio Cortez celebrated the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe not once but twice with his fellow migrants.
A group of about 40 people awoke in the early morning hours of Dec. 11 to celebrate "Las Mañanitas" at the Our Lady of Guadalupe Mission at St. Gregory Church,
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- January 23, 2012
- Female jockey finds success at local track
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FARMINGTON -- It was a storybook ending for one showdown at Finger Lakes Race Track last fall -- the only female jockey on the only filly in the race beating all the boys, including her own fiancé.
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- January 9, 2012
- Pantries struggle to feed hungry
Need is on the rise in the Finger Lakes area. At least, that's the story from local food pantries, which have seen the number of families they serve skyrocket in recent months.
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- January 5, 2012
- Vigil-goers pray for unborn
Last month nearly 100 people gathered at St. Michael Church in Lyons to pray for all unborn human life, uniting their prayers with those of thousands of other Catholics who prayed for the same thing during this past Advent. Knights of Columbus Council 897 held its second-annual Vigil for All Nascent (Unborn) Human Life
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- December 8, 2011
- Local 4-Hers are Rising Stars
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CANANDAIGUA -- Seven-year-old Riley Winum wrinkled his brow as he measured candy corn into a cup, then carefully poured it into a plastic bag.
He briefly paused to consult the recipe card on the table in front of him before doing the same with raisins, peanuts and Cheerios cereal. With a look of intense
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- November 18, 2011
- Film documents lives of female farmworkers
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PITTSFORD -- In 2000, filmmaker Nancy Ghertner realized that although she'd lived in Sodus for 30 years, there was an entire segment of her town's population that she knew almost nothing about.
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- November 3, 2011
- Blessing attracts dogs, fish, frog
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WEEDSPORT -- Our Lady of the Snow Parish is going to the dogs.
At least, that's what passers-by might have thought Oct. 4, when eight dogs -- accompanied by their owners -- converged on the parking lot of St. Joseph Church in Weedsport, which is one of Our Lady of the Snow's three worship sites. The dogs and their owners were gathered with several other parishioners and their
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