News of The Church of the Holy Comforter in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia Richmond, October 2019

• Goff Announces Appointment of Once again HoCo was OUT at Pride. Assistant Bishop • Thinking Ahead We were the first church to go to Pride • A Message from Dash back in the day. Now there are a number of • All Saints’ Day - a churches and at least one Jewish community. Celebration of The mood was joyful! Community in God • A HoCo Thank You • See you on the Mountain • Bill Reeves, former Interim Rector has died • Memories of Allison Cheek • And Now for Something Completely Different • Book Club for October - The Overstory • Digging and Discovery in Nazareth • Stewardship Update • Wonder Inspires Giving • My Holy Comforter “Wonder Inventory” • A Look at the Chancel • English Country Parish Articles Expanded into a Book • The Back Page Bishop Goff Announces and challenges among God’s people in Virginia.” Appointment of Assistant Bishop Brooke-Davidson was ordained a Bishop in 2009 after graduating from Fuller Theological The Rt. Rev. Susan E. Goff, Bishop Seminary. She began her ordained ministry at Suffragan and Ecclesiastical Authority of the St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Wimberley, Diocese of Virginia, is honored to announce the Texas, where she served as the Assistant Rector appointment of the Rt. Rev. Jennifer Brooke- from 2009-2011. She then served as Vicar of Saint Davidson as Assistant Bishop of the Diocese Elizabeth in Buda, Texas, from 2011 until she of Virginia. Bishop Brooke-Davidson has been was elected Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of Bishop Suffragan of the Diocese of West Texas West Texas. Prior to ordination, Bishop Brooke- since July, 2017. Davidson practiced commercial financial law for 12 years. She is married to Carrick Brooke- “Bishop Brooke-Davidson will bring Davidson, and they have two grown daughters, tremendous gifts to our Diocese,” Bishop Goff Emma and Kate, and a son-in-law, Daniel. said. “We will be strengthened by her Bishop Robert W. Ihloff will continue as part- clarity, commitment, time Bishop Associate for some time longer, and and ability to ask will maintain a primary office in northern Virginia good questions, at The Falls Church Episcopal. “I am grateful for along with her the continuing ministry of Bishop Ihloff,” said skill in helping a Bishop Goff. “I am also thankful to my brother community seek Ted Gulick, David Jones and Jim Mathes, faithful answers. She who have pitched in with parish visitations and is the right person other ministries this year. Their participation at the right time to in our common life has been a blessing to the share in leadership Diocese and will continue in various forms.” and support of Bishop Brooke-Davidson will begin her our mission and ministry in this Diocese on November 4. Please ministry.” join Bishop Goff in welcoming her to the Diocese Bishop Brooke-Davidson will take part in the of Virginia. full range of episcopal functions in the Diocese, - Diocese of Virginia communications office including Sunday and other visitations, support of Thinking Ahead persons in the ordination process, congregational By Peggy Hombs, Adult Formation development, conflict transformation, and work with diocesan committees and commissions. She Do you have an Advance Directive? will live in Richmond and have a primary office at Do you know the difference between Palliative Mayo Memorial Church House. Medicine and Hospice Care? Have you heard of POST? Come and hear Julie Edwards and Diane Bishop Brooke-Davidson extended Gilkenson present some greetings to the people of the Diocese of of the answers to these Virginia saying, “It is a great honor to be questions and more on called to the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia Livings Wills. Join us for to serve you under the leadership of Bishop a Forum on Advance Care Goff. I eagerly look forward to meeting you Planning on October 27th at Convention and working with you in the and November 3rd. Grab years to come. While it is hard for me to a beverage and a munchie, leave the people and congregations that I love in and join us in the Parlor at 11:30am. the Episcopal Diocese of West Texas, I do so in the conviction that God is calling me to new joys

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 2 A Message from Dash + All Saints’ Day - a Dear Friends and Companions in Celebration of Community in Ministry, God My name is Dash, and Hilary asked if I would By the Rev Dr Hilary Smith, Rector write to you this month. We have been together All Saints’ Day is a special day for me because I for six weeks, and I’ve learned a lot about our was baptized on November 1 when I was 24 years church in that time. We are at church most days; I old. All Saint’s Day or the Sunday following is a have met many wonderful people. I’m not as keen day especially appropriate for baptisms as we are on other dogs but, really, I’m just a bit scared. We remembering that we are connected to all the saints are in a class to work on that on earth and in heaven. Through baptism, we but it will take some time. I become members of the Church; we are sealed by won’t be there for the Blessing the Holy Spirit in baptism and marked as Christ’s of the Animals on October own forever. Baptism is a community celebration 6, but don’t be sad, Hilary is as much as it is a celebration for the family of the going to bring a picture on one being baptized. We promise as the members her phone so I can get blessed and friends of Holy Comforter to support the too! If you have an animal in newly baptized as they grow in faith and in their your life who can’t come to the lives. We baptize babies, children, and adults in the 10:00 am service on October Episcopal Church. If you or your child would like 6, you can bring their picture. to be baptized on Sunday, November 3 when we Even though I won’t be there, will celebrate All Saints’ Day, please let me know. I’m so happy that our church In addition, we will celebrate our connection with celebrates animals and cares each other as members of the church by turning about God’s creation. We hold this service with in our pledge cards for 2020. I love making my the Blessing of Animals every year on the Sunday pledge on this following St. Francis’ Day, which is October 4, or day because by the day itself if a Sunday. doing so I feel St. Francis was a great friend to animals and he that I honor our loved God’s creation. He founded the Franciscan community, Order and died in 1226. I hear that you are getting give thanks into your Fall Stewardship Campaign; what a to God for perfect time to consider how you are a steward my life and of all God has given you. St. Francis could have life in Christ, had a good life as a rich man but heard God and honor calling him to rebuild the Church. At first, Francis those saints who have gone before us who did so thought he was supposed to actually fix up the much for HoCo. On this day, we will also read the church in which he was praying, but God was names of our friends and loved ones who joined calling Francis of Assisi to renew the spirit of the the saints in heaven in the last year. You will find Church. You will get a letter from Hilary soon a roll call of the saints in the back of the church; about our pledge drive, but I want to thank you we list everyone who we have prayed for in the too for all you do to make HoCo a great place. I last year and you are welcome to add names of really enjoy the garden. Come by during the week those not yet on the list. Please plan to join us and visit me. on All Saints’ Sunday, November 3. Lunch will follow the service provided by our Holy Comforter Love, Foundation. Dash, the Maltese pup (with some help from Hilary)

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 3 paid, thank you for not making us follow up with To My HoCo Family, you. The cost is $180 per person for the entire You’ve heard the lyrics, “O, what weekend, and there is no charge for children 12 a night!”; now there’s a new version: and under. This covers six meals and two nights of “O, what a day!” As you might have lodging, and all the fresh air and beautiful scenery noticed, I was surprised and stunned you want, not to mention the company of your at the honor bestowed on me after the fellow parishioners. August 25th service when so many are It’s never too late to assist with some aspects of deserving of recognition. It rendered the retreat, so please reach out to me at lglettau@ me speechless which is very rare! gmail.com or speak with me at church, especially The kindness and love shown me was if you have any questions. See you on the overwhelming and I thank you from Mountain. the bottom of my heart. Many thanks to those who participated in the event Bill Reeves, former Interim from the coordination (and secrecy) to Rector, has died the fabulous food and the decorations. By Bruce MacAlister It was amazing! It’s 2002, the hundredth anniversary There is no community like our of Holy Comforter. We want to do something HoCo family and I am grateful for the special. We don’t have a rector. Interim blessing that each of you brings to my Rector Bill Reeves gives life. encouragement and we do it. Love and grace and abundant “[HoCo built a] Habitat thanks! for Humanity House in the Helen spring of 2002, a $50,000 investment with several thousand Holy Comforter labor-hours to build the house. The Outreach Committee and the Holy Comforter Foundation each contributed $25,000 from a recent bequest from Charles Brackett, to join in this celebration of our 100th anniversary” (from an Outreach Ministries See you on the Mountain brochure.) By Lisa Lettau The Rev William Reeves died September 16, It’s almost time to head out to 2019 at age 85. Long before serving HoCo as Orkney Springs! There are still a few open spots, interim rector, Bill had a distinguished career as so if you haven’t signed up and want to come an educator and priest. He served in Hong Kong, please do so right away. If Hawaii, and schools in Virginia. An especially you’ve already signed up long tenure was at Collegiate School. He was an and haven’t yet turned avid sailor and had most recently been Priest in in your money, please Residence at St. Paul’s Richmond. put your payment in the A full obituary is at www.richmond.com/ offering plate by October obituaries/reeves-william/article. 6th or mail your check to the church office. If you’ve already

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 4 The Rev. , first been done before. She heard the voice of God female Episcopal priest to telling her, “I want you to be my priest,” she later celebrate Eucharist, told the Tribune. dies at 92 “It was a powerful experience. It’s why I never By Egan Millard, assistant editor and reporter thought of giving up,” Cheek said. for the Episcopal News Service And she didn’t, even though she expected she The Rev. Alison Cheek, one of the first female would be deposed – permanently excluded from in The Episcopal Church and the first to any ordained ministry – after the publicly celebrate the Eucharist, died on Sept. 1 at ceremony. her home in Brevard, , according to “When the opportunity to go to the friends. She was 92. Philadelphia ordination came, I thought, ‘Well, if Cheek was one of the , the they toss me out, at least I’ll go witnessing to what first women to be ordained to the priesthood in I believe about the Gospel and about women’s The Episcopal Church. She and 10 other women appropriateness for being priests, and being true to were ordained at the Church of the Advocate in what I believed,’” she said in 2014. Philadelphia on July 29, 1974, two years before According to the Rev. Alla Bozarth, she is the was officially authorized survived by six “sisters” in the Philadelphia by General Convention. The highly controversial Eleven, as well as her four children. ordinations were later affirmed as valid. Memories of Allison Cheek “I sort of risked everything to do it,” she By Steve Van Voorhees recalled on the 40th anniversary of her ordination. “I would do it again.” Metro Washington, DC being Metro Washington, DC, you never know who you’ll Cheek was no stranger to bold moves. Born know! While I was a member of St. Alban’s near Adelaide, Australia, in 1927, she was raised Episcopal Church in Annandale, VA, in the late Methodist and graduated 1960s, I taught Sunday from the University of School with, among Adelaide, according others, Melba Matthias, to one of her former wife of Rep. Bob parishes. In 1957, Matthias of California she and her husband, and a former Olympic Bruce, moved to the decathlete, and Allison Washington, D.C., area, Cheek. Both of these where she became a women were great lay minister at several followers of Jesus and Episcopal churches while strong characters. They raising four children. In were, for me, examples 1963, she became one of the kind of women of the first two women real men wanted to admitted to the Master associate with. Allison of Divinity program at Virginia Theological was a quiet, smart and inner-directed person. We Seminary, from which she graduated in 1969. met regularly and planned our Christian education With encouragement from her rector, she pursued programs together. I enjoyed her company and ordination to the diaconate and became the first was very happy to cheer her progress as a ground- female in the South in 1972. breaking church leader. During a retreat, she experienced a powerful spiritual calling to do something that had never

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 5 And Now for Something orientation, but the Inquisition is in part a Busby Completely Different Berkley extravaganza. Brooks received a lot of negative write-ups from Rabbis about the Spanish October 22nd Men at the Movies Inquisition piece, along with some positive ones. By Steve Van Voorhees He kept it in and said publicly, “Comedy brings When someone says, “Mel Brooks” and real persecutors, dictators and tyrants to their “Woody Allen” in the same sentence, one has knees faster than any other medium.” We hope to wonder how these so very different funny that is still true today. men came to be linked. Well they can be when One final note: the filmThe Producers cost less one considers the “anthology” movie structure. than one million dollars to make; the Inquisition set alone in History… cost over a million dollars to build. This movie was the most expensive Mel Brooks movie to date, when it was released - over eleven million dollars. What was Mel Brooks’s funniest and best movie? This is heavily contested and debated among fans. Come see this one again or for the first time and add your vote We will gather for fellowship at 6:00pm. Bring a friend, bring your dinner! Movie and discussion will start at 6:30pm in the Parlor. Popcorn Once upon a time, Woody Allen made a movie of provided! Contact me for more information. vignettes and put it out as Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Book Club for October - Ask. In a very like manner, Mel Brooks released a The Overstory movie called History of the World, Part I. By Laura Hunt Starting with the title as an inside joke (There Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize, The was never a Part II planned or carried out.), Overstory by Richard Powers is an environmental Brooks strung together a collection of five satiric epic that weaves together the stories of nine main stories: The Stone Age, The Old Testament, The characters whose life experiences with trees Roman Empire, The Spanish Inquisition, and The bring them together to save the forests. The novel French Revolution, connected by incidents along entwines their tales into a larger “overstory” the way. So, we have this movie that is raucous that goes beyond their individual human lives as but not raunchy, an assault on taste, but not dumb. they learn to see that “there is a world alongside Brooks’ humor is more verbal than visual in ours - vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us” (Kenyon Review). The book intends to teach us to respect nonhuman nature and to recognize trees as protagonists in our own story of life. Every one of the characters is “drugged” by the glory of the green world (The Atlantic). The human characters include a War veteran whose life was saved by a banyan tree; a psychologist who studies the ways in

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 6 which people blind themselves to catastrophes, Powers describes his first encounter with giant particularly those that unfold gradually; a scientist redwood trees as a kind of “religious conversion” “committed to getting humanity to understand that inspired him to write the book from the that trees are sentient beings” (Atlantic); a veteran perspective of trees. Filled with linguistic beauty, who spends five years of his life replanting this monumental novel offers “glimpses of a vast, trees for major companies only to discover that primordial sensibility” (NY Times). And it offers his work only contributes to their destruction; hope: Nature and the trees will endure long after an environmental artist who creates beautiful transient humanity is gone. sculptures that tell the stories of nature; and a college student who accidentally electrocutes Digging and Discovery in herself, and on being revived, realizes that “beings Nazareth of light” are telling her to protect the giant By Maria Scott redwoods. It’s four o’clock in the morning. Through the But human lives are only the novel’s darkness the overlapping calls to prayer of the understory. Life – and even consciousness – on muezzins lend an otherworldly texture to the pre- this earth exists on a much grander scale (Kenyon dawn ritual of rising, brushing teeth, and lacing up Review). The trees around the people are so heavy shoes. It is nevertheless real: I am in Israel, exquisitely in Nazareth, to be specific, and I am preparing rendered that for another day in the field with the Shikhin they become Excavation Project, unearthing the everyday lives characters of 1st-3rd century (CE) Jews in a small town themselves outside the Romanized city of Sepphoris. (Atlantic) and Archaeology is a destructive science: by the true heroes unearthing the past we destroy the evidence of its of the book. context. It is therefore also a painstaking science: Trees do most everything has to be meticulously measured and of the things we do: they speak, sing, take care of each other, experience pain, dream, remember the past, and predict the future. They “take care of their families, sometimes making huge sacrifices for their children. They breathe, eat and have sex. They give gifts, communicate, learn, and record the important events of their recorded. Moreover, what we learn is not just lives” (NY Times) . what we take out of the ground, but what we The extraordinary thing about trees is not encounter in the process of doing so. The politics just their long lives, some “older than Jesus,” of archaeology are never far under the surface. as Powers writes, but also their ability “to make On October 6th and 13th, I will share with sugar and wood from nothing, from air, and sun, you some of the encounters, archaeological and and rain.” And although they provide the very air sociological, that I was privileged to have this past we breathe, “the humans hear nothing.” June. From digging with pickaxes to dining in Jerusalem, I got to be, not just another tourist, but a participant, however insignificant, in the shaping and interpretation of history. Wow.

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 7 Stewardship Update children and By Lisa Lettau adults in those settings, sing Hopefully you were able to attend songs together, the adult form on September 29th. Members of share bread the Finance, Stewardship, and Property and wine at the Committees reviewed our table, fellowship financials for the together in first eight months social settings, of 2019 and looking meet together to discuss how to make our church ahead to 2020. What more inviting and inclusive, and take risks and are our priorities? What work needs connect to community in ways that express our to be done, especially when it comes to faith. property maintenance, and what do we want to do that we might not already be doing? The theme for this year’s Stewardship Campaign is “Wonder in All”. The Wardens have both shared their thoughts with us on this, and we did a group “Wonder Inventory” as part of the forum (see articles these two pages). We look forward to the next year in the life of our parish. Wonder Inspires Giving By Shawn Sthreshley, Junior Warden Many world religions and secular I stand in awe at what we do collectively as a philosophies are based upon the concept of faith community to make such differences in the wonder. When the universe makes you stand lives of our parishioners, visitors, and our greater in awe of your experiences, and you consider community. It’s hard to take a pause and realize your being in the world, then your thoughts slant what we do...we do so much as a faith community toward the possibility of the Sacred. SHE doesn’t to meet the needs of others, within our parish and stay quiet for the discerning. beyond. There’s so much to celebrate about Our faith community HoCo! allows for such This brings a contemplation and sense of wonder practice in light of to my soul as a I such experiences. discern wonder Therefore, our everyday in our church experiences of the community. Please Sacred, or God, happen consider being a every day: especially part of making within our collective positive differences church community, in the lives of our whether in worship at church members and the greater community. HoCo, as we experience divine liturgy and holy music, share food with others at our pantry, care for our children in our nursery during our church services, teach our

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 8 My Holy Comforter “Wonder Inventory” By Beverly A. Evans, Senior Warden Contemplating the Stewardship Campaign theme, “Wonder in All”, moves me to take notice of what makes Holy Comforter such a beloved place for me. Sitting on the Vestry (this year as Senior Warden), has given me a deeper understanding of what goes into sustaining a vibrant body of faith housed in a beautiful old structure that needs lots of loving care. magic world of Vacation Bible School. I mean really, Harry Potter as a lesson on God’s gifts and profound message of love? Wonderful! I wonder at how we are able to touch lives through our Food Pantry, community meals, and curbside prayers and ashes. There is wonder sitting in a creaky wooden chair during a Wednesday afternoon contemplative service. How clearly God’s voice is Since our first random (divine?) heard in the silence. There’s wonder Christmas Eve visit to Holy Comforter walking the Stations of the Cross a few years ago, Robert and I have along the deep, shadowed walls of the experienced the wonder of engaging church, alive with Christ’s suffering, bravery, promise, and faith. At Holy Comforter we get to join together, not just on Sunday, but any day – to pray, give, build, repair, welcome and love. I invite you to think about your own personal “Wonder Inventory” at Holy Comforter. It’s wonderful to know that as we give, each in our own way, we receive God’s blessings in far greater measure. Thanks be to God. more deeply in the life of this church. The music drew us in, and the commitment to justice for all who come through these great wooden doors has kept us coming back. There are so many wonders here . . . The children and youth, whom I’ve come to know more fully through teaching Children’s Chapel and diving into the

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 9 A Look at the Chancel chancel arch to indicate By Laura Hunt the sacred space beyond. “Rood” is an Old English The chancel (photo #1) is the word for “cross” or term for the eastern part of the church, which “crucifix,” which sits atop is reserved for the clergy, the choir, and those the beam. assisting at the Eucharist. It is where worship is conducted. At the front of our nave, two raised wooden features look out towards the congregation: the Lectern (#3) on the right, from

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Photo 1 which the reader (lector) proclaims the Scriptures, The word chancel derives from Late Latin and the Pulpit (#4) on “chancellus,” meaning “lattice.” Before the the left, from which the Reformation, all Catholic churches had a screen homilist delivers the separating the nave from the chancel. Often sermon. this screen incorporated latticework, an open wooden framework using laths (thin strips of Architecturally, the wood or metal) arranged in a pattern. The lattice Choir is the western was designed to allow the congregation only part of the Chancel, between the nave and glimpses of the mysteries beyond, specifically the Photo 4 transformation of the bread and wine on the High the sanctuary, providing Altar into the Body and Blood of Christ. By and seating for the clergy large, the screens were destroyed by Puritans in and church musicians. the 17th century, Originally it held stalls on either side for the A reminder of this screen is Holy Comforter’s monks who chanted Rood Beam (#2), which stretches across the the Divine Office, the official set of prayers marking each hour and sanctifying the day with prayer. Today it contains the organ, piano, handbells, and choir chairs, as well as clergy seats for the celebrant and assisting clergy. Photo 5

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News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 10 Originally, the Eucharist was celebrated at series from the monthly Messenger. Plus there the High Altar at the eastern end of the church are four brand new articles to round out the (#5), where the priest had to turn his back to the series. The original articles have been revised and congregation to consecrate the elements and speak expanded. There are over 100 color photos, 45 of the Words of Institution (“This is my Body…”). which are newly added images. Enjoy Laura’s In the early 1990s Holy Comforter built a recounting of her six-month journey through free-standing Holy Table (#6) at the front of the English traditions and the Anglican faith. See her nave so that the congregation could participate study of village churches, whose art constitutes in the ceremony. Former congregant Howard a cultural storehouse and the real museum of England.

Photo 6 Wells donated the altar as a memorial to his son Christopher Bage, killed in a plane crash at age Topics include: thirteen. Significant financial gifts were also made • The Cultural and Artistic Importance of by the Rev. Fletcher Lowe and his wife Mary Fran English Parish Churches in honor of his 15-year tenure as rector at HoCo. • Differences between Anglican and The new altar brings the focus of worship Episcopal Services into the midst of the congregation, deliberately • A survey of medieval church architecture blurring the line between between nave and from Saxon and Norman to the many varieties of chancel, between worship and congregation. It Gothic was designed by a Liturgical Architect to be approachable from all sides with no barriers. • The roles of lay readers, church wardens, Nowadays, as the priest consecrates the Bread and and patrons. Wine, the Holy Table becomes the place of our • Unusual Anglican Services, including communal remembrance of Jesus’ sacrifice. Here Mothering Sunday, Lady Day, Rushbearing & the principal act of our worship occurs as we meet Summer Rejoicing, and Remembrance Sunday. God through the Eucharist. • 17th-century Prayer Books, modern English Country Parish liturgies, and Authorized Professions of Faith Articles Expanded into a • A look at the beauty of stone and wood sculpture, as well as stained glass windows Book By Bruce MacAlister, Editor • A view of the poets who lived along the Welsh borders: George Herbert, A. E. Housman, Just in time for Christmas gifts or personal and Thomas Traherne. perusal we are excited to offer, in early November, a 36-page full-color book comprising the twelve The book includes a map and a list of the 45 articles of Laura Hunt’s English Country Parish churches photographed.

News of the Church of the Holy Comforter - Richmond, Virginia - 11 Church of the Holy Comforter, Richmond a parish in the Diocese of Virginia under the Episcopal Church in the USA which is part of the worldwide Monument Avenue at Staples Mill Road web - www.hoco.org; e-mail - [email protected]; phone 804-355-3251; fax 804-355-0049

Coming Events at the Church of the Holy Comforter See the Hoco web site calendar page for detailed calendar and rota

• Sundays, 8:45am, Adult Formation, Hayward Food Pantry Hours: Parlor • First and third Saturdays, 11:00am to noon • Sundays, 10am, Choral Eucharist • First and third Tuesdays, 5:30 to 6:30pm • Sundays, about 10:15am, Children’s Chapel, Side By Side Meal Preparation starts in the Church, moves to Parish House • Fourth Thursdays, Side by Side, prep at 4pm, Children’s Chapel deliver about 5pm • Third Sunday of the monthly, 4:30pm, Story • Fourth Thursdays, Vet Shelter prep at 5pm, Time carpool to the shelter at about 6pm, and dinner • Sundays, 2pm, Yoga, in the Cary Montague served at 6:30. Room. Check the calendar for cancelations.

Editing of the Messenger is done by Bruce MacAlister, the layout by George Collier. The November Messenger will be available Sunday November 3rd, 2019. The deadline for that edition is Friday, October 25th, 2019, (but earlier submission is encouraged). If you feel that you have something you’d like to contribute, please contact Bruce MacAlister. Please send your submissions to [email protected]

Hoco Birthdays for the month of October: Edith Hardie, 1st; Peggy Hombs, 2nd; Pamela James, 6th; Phoebe Winter, 10th; Kipley Herr, 13th; Kendall B. Martin, 13th; Jennifer Moon, 23rd; Lit Maxwell, 24th

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