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Ken Pepper of Cottonwood Cash & Carry presents a check worth $844 to Sr. Clarissa Goeckner, Prioress at St. Gertrude’s Monastery and Sr. Mary Kay Henry, Director of Development at the Monastery. The money was generated by a fundraiser for the Spirit Center where Cash & Carry pledged a percentage of all revenues from Aug. 1-7. The sisters are very grateful for the contribution. The consider Spirit Center one vital ongoing way they can contribute to the local community.

 

Vacation Bible School

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Exploring the Mysteries
June 18-22


Postulant Wendy Olin with students

 
Sister Janet and Postulant Cindy Harris leading music


Students singing


Students preparing paper to make origami doves


The St. Gertrude's Academy Class of 1966 held their "40 + 1 Class Reunion" on June 16, 2007. The gathered at the Monastery Chapel for a special Mass and toured the High School. The group enjoyed dinner at Spirit Center where they were joined by some of their former teachers. Pictured, L-R, are Dick Clifford of Lewiston; Sr. Catherine Manderfeld and Clark Christiansen, spouse of Ginger Watson Christiansen (whose back is to the camera), of Nezperce.

 


 The monastery park along Keuterville Road recently received a spring-time trim. An Avista crew took down power lines and trimmed branches while logger Jesse Geis (on the ground) and Kevin Geis (in the loader) removed all the old, weakened trees around the park. Monastery forester, Sr. Carol Ann Wassmuth, appreciated the crews’ careful work in guiding the falling trees around power poles, statuary and other trees. “It is hard to see the trees go,” she said, “but they were becoming a hazard to the power lines, cars and other structures on the property.”


Sonessa Lundmark (left), Art teacher at Prairie Middle School, received a donation of four boxes of yarn and needles from the Loosely Knit group at the Monastery of St. Gertrude. Also pictured are Sr. Miriam Mendez,
Sr. Evangela Bossert and Nov. Kim Marie Jordan.


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 Idaho Corporation of Benedictine Sisters
Monastery of  St. Gertrude
465 Keuterville Road
Cottonwood, ID 83522-5183
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Revised 21 August 2008