The Latest Addition!

The Pink TabletTalk Bunny Ears are tipping toward the latest story produced by Tablet reporter Stefanie Gutierrez - new daughter, Anna Elizabeth, who was born July 25. Her Daddy, Manny, and big brother, Gabriel, are shown on the day they took her home.

Celebrate Labor Day at the West Indian American Day Parade along Eastern Parkway on Monday, Sept. 1.

A 9:45 a.m. Mass will be celebrated at St. Matthew Church, 1123 Eastern Parkway, Crown Heights, before the 11 a.m. parade. Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will ride on a float representing the diocese. Marchers alongside will receive T-shirts and backpacks.

For more information, call Elba Melendez at 646-327-8364.

Our Lady of the Snows parish, Floral Park, will be holding a Yard Sale on Sept. 6, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., to benefit the OLS Building Fund.

Please call 718-347-0512 to make donations or for more information.

Are you a woman looking to earn her GED? The School Sisters of Notre Dame Education Center, Jamaica, offers preparation classes. Registration is Sept. 3, 4 and 5, 9 -11:30 a.m. at the Center at 120-09 141st St.

Classes include GED Preparation, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.; Basic Education, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 1-3 p.m. and Desktop Publisher, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 12-1:15 p.m. Call 738-0588.

Come bowl with ladies from St. Anselm’s and St. Patrick’s at Maple Lanes, 1570 60th St., at 16th Ave., Borough Park on Friday evenings, 6:45 p.m., beginning Sept. 5. New bowlers welcome.

Call Janice at 917-803-2830 or Karen at 718-923-6330.

This Week’s Tip of The TabletTalk Top Hat goes to the Msgr. Sherman Council, Knights of Columbus Glendale, who presented a check for $500 to seminarian Christopher Bethge as part of the Knights of Columbus Refund Support for Vocations Program.

Grand Knight Donald Gander, above, presents the check.

Bethge, of Sacred Heart parish, Glendale, is studying at St. John’s University while at the diocesan seminary at the Immaculate Conception Center, Douglaston.

Young men ages 16-24 are invited to take advantage of the Fatherhood Program sponsored by Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens.

The program offers parenting, budgeting and finance, job readiness workshops, case management, medication and conflict resolution training. The free services are available at 52 Wilson Ave. (basement), Bushwick.

For more information, call Leibniz Scottborgh at 718-628-1905.

Next summer, sail to San Juan and St. Thomas while supporting a Queen of All Saints, Fort Greene, fundraising event. Come aboard the Carnival Ship Miracle July 11-19, 2009, departing from New York for San Juan, Puerto Rico, and St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Cost per person (double occupancy) includes meals, port charges, taxes, insurance and gratuities: inside stateroom, $1,620; outside stateroom, $1,750; or stateroom with balcony, $1,930. First payment of $350 is due Nov. 16. For more information, call 718-638-7625.

The Food Pantry at St. Gerard Majella, Hollis, needs volunteers to help on Tuesdays and Fridays from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. and Tuesdays from 2:30-4 p.m. to pack groceries.

Please contact Grace Brunken or Father Ed Doran at the rectory, 718-468-6565.

If you would like to donate food, nonperishable items can be brought to the rectory between 9 a.m. and 8 p.m.

The Centennial Committee of Holy Innocents Church, Flatbush, would like to contact all former parishioners and school alumni as they prepare for the 100th anniversary of the parish.

Please call Michelle Granillo at 718-469-9500 or Trudy Zadrozny at trudy390@gmail.com.

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

Humanitarian Award

Catholic Charities Brooklyn & Queens honored Catherine Gilberti, senior vice president of Silverstein Properties, Inc., left, with the Bishop’s 2008 Humanitarian Award at a dinner recently. With her are from left, Robert Siebel, chief executive officer of Catholic Charities; John J. Murphy, dinner chairman; Sister Ellen Patricia Finn, O.P., associate executive director of Catholic Charities; Msgr. Alfred LoPinto, Vicar for Human Serivces; and Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio.