Bay Ridge Grand Marshal Installed

Kings County D.A. Joe Hynes was installed as Grand Marshal of the 2008 Bay Ridge St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Feb. 22. His deputies and friends are from left, Eileen McConeghy, Barbara Slattery, Patricia Callahan, Thomas Gottlieb, Erik Manning, Jerry Callahan, parade president, Hynes, Robert Long, JoAnne Gunderson and Theresa Cassidy. A 9:30 a.m. Mass at St. Patrick’s Church, 95th St. and 4th Ave., Bay Ridge, on Sunday, March 30, precedes the parade, which steps off at 1 p.m. down Fifth Ave. to Our Lady of Perpetual Help at 59th St.

You are invited to the Brooklyn Diocesan Union of Holy Name Societies’ Annual Communion Brunch to be held April 5 at St. Pascal Baylon Church, St. Albans.

Retired Bishop Thomas Daily will celebrate 10 a.m.

Mass followed by a brunch with guest speaker Fred Torres. Cost is $16. For tickets, call Carl Nott, 718-338-8322.

Polonaise Folk Dancers and kielbasa are just part of the plans for Polish-American Night, April 5, at St. Adalbert, Elmhurst.

Music will be provided by The Ablemen and a Polish Kitchen will be stocked with kapusta, pierogi, golabki, kura, ziemniaki, coffee and babka. The fun starts at 8 p.m. and goes till midnight in the parish center. Tickets are $35. Call Dotty at 718-639-0212.

Enjoy an evening of beautiful Italian vocal and instrumental music at the Opera Buffet at Sacred Hearts & St. Stephen Church, Carroll Gardens, on April 5, at 7:30 p.m.

For more information, call the rectory at 718-596-7750.

Are you interested in improving the relationships in your life? A weekend themed The Spirituality of Relationships: Finding Peace with God, Ourselves and Others, will be presented April 4-6 at the Immaculate Conception Center by Spirituality Matters Inc.

Cost of the weekend is $200. To register, go to www.spiritualitymatters.org or call 516-672-3851.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to Pauline Blake and her sister Cherry Blake who will be honored at the 2nd Annual Dorothy Bennett Mercy Center Benefit on April 5 at the Belle Harbor Yacht Club.

Both are longtime Associates of the Mercy Sisters. They have each been very active in community work especially religious education of children.
For tickets, call 718-622-7448.

Join the ladies at St. Columba, Marine Park, for their Annual Spring Fling Card Party on Friday, May 2, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $15 and includes a raffle, snacks, coffee and tea. Gents welcome too.

For tickets, call Rose at 718-627-4247.

Visitation Academy in Bay Ridge is looking for alumni. If you attended the Academy, please drop the school a line and help them update their alumni records.

Write to 8902 Ridge Blvd., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11209, call the director of development, Eileen LaRuffa, at 718-680-0377, or e-mail through their website at www.visitationacademy.net.

Support Futures in Education by coming out to their Angels on the Fairway Golf Outing & Scholarship Fund Reception on May 1.

The 12:30 p.m. golf outing is at The Creek, Locust Valley, L.I. Cocktails and dinner at 5:30 p.m. To register, call Terence Boyd at 718-965-7300 ext. 1607.

The school children of Good Shepherd, Marine Park, recently raised $2,000 for Hour Children, which provides services to women, who were formerly incarcerated, and their children.

Students held bake sales, Bingo games, a carnival and raffles. Their principal, Anthony Paparelli, and teachers are very proud of all their hard work.

Corpus Christi School’s Home School Association, Woodside, organized an Easter egg hunt and breakfast with the Easter Bunny and his friend Chick, below, on March 9.

Please send news items and photos of parish events to lbusetti@thetablet.org or call 718-965-7333 ext. 2021.

Tom Barnwell Sports Day

St. Francis of Assisi School, Astoria, celebrated its first annual Tom Barnwell Sports Day on March 9. Tom Barnwell was a strong supporter of Futures in Education and served as an usher in SFA and many parishes in Woodside and Sunnyside. Thomas Flood, director of the diocesan Office of Stewardship and Development, described Tom as a “man of modest means who gave selflessly from the heart.” His family, above, joined in the day, which included raffles, food and fun.