Dance or Go All In for Charity at St. Charles Borromeo This Month

Channel your inner Fonzie or put on your best shades and poker face for charity at two upcoming fundraiser events co-hosted by the St Charles Borromeo Catholic Church and local community groups.

The Catholic Daughters of the Americas presents the third annual Saint Charles Borromeo “Sock Hop” this Saturday from 6 to 10:30 p.m. All ages are welcome and can dance the night away to 50s hits, participate in the cool costume contest, and play games for prizes. All proceeds will support the Saint Charles Church Refurbishment Fund. The fund is used on projects to improve the church, including replacing kneelers, refurbishing the church floor and improving the sound system. Wear your best 1950s outfits/costumes.

The Catholic Daughters of the Americas (CDA), one of the oldest and largest organizations of Catholic women in the Americas, donates to charities, administers scholarship programs and strives “to be helping hands where there is pain, poverty, sorrow or sickness.” The CDA was formed over 100 years ago and today numbers 95,000 dues-paying members in 1,250 courts (local chapters) in 45 states across the country, and in Puerto Rico, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Guam, and the Virgin Islands.

If dancing to Elvis, Little Richard and Bobby Darin isn’t your cup of tea, you can attend the September Poker Parlor Night fundraiser. 

The Knights of Columbus are hosting a Poker Parlor Night at the Social Center on Sept. 23. 

The event will benefit the Church’s Catholic school. The donation/entrance and fee is $20 and includes sandwiches, soft drinks and three hours of Hold’em action beginning at 4 p.m. 

Established in September 1939, the Saint Charles Borromeo Catholic School integrates faith with the learning process to students from kindergarten through eighth grade.

Saint Charles School was established as a parish school in 1939 with the Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin Mary (BVMs). The BVMs staffed the school for 43 years. Due to declining numbers in their order, the Sisters were unable to provide a principal for the school as the end of the 1981-1982 year. The BVMs withdrew entirely from Saint Charles School in March 1992. Since 1984, the school has been staffed by Benedictine Sisters and lay personnel. In 2000, a lay principal was hired and most of the faculty members were lay educators.

The Knights of Columbus was formed to render financial aid to members and their families and assistance is offered to sick, disabled and needy families. Social and intellectual fellowship is promoted among members through educational, charitable, religious, social welfare, war relief and public relief works.

The Knights of Columbus has grown from several members in one council to more than 14,000 councils and 1.8 million members throughout the United States, Canada, the Philippines, Mexico, Poland, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands, Cuba, Guatemala, and Guam.