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Catholic Charities to host weekend fundraiser

Catholic Charities to host weekend fundraiser

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Springfield, IL (CAPITOL CITY NOW)- Springfield’s Catholic Charites is running a fundraiser this Saturday, all money goes to a great cause. Patrick McConell, representing The Springfield Catholic Charities, was on the WTAX Morning NewsWatch to discuss their upcoming Fundraising event on Saturday.

What exactly are you guys raising money for?

This is our annual fundraiser for Springfield Catholic charities for the programs that we offer here in Springfield. Our well-known St. John’s Breadline. We have our Holy family food pantry, mobile food pantry, which goes out into our rural areas delivering food, a crisis assistance, office legal services, and then intact family services, fundraiser itself, this is probably one of the major fundraising programs for throughout the year.”

live from the knights of Colombus hall 364 on Meadowbrook. What else can we expect from this event?

From five to 8:30, it’ll be kind of a 1970s theme, we’ll have music, Live auction, silent auction, trivia, costume contest, should be a good time.”

How can one get involved?

We would love to have you get involved. There are many things one can do. go into our website at www.ccd.org. 
It’ll go through, you know, each one of our kind of you know, programs a little bit more in depth or they can, you know, give me a call on my work number, which is 217-523-4551 extension 114.”

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