St. Patrick, Hudson, has a sister parish in Guatemala; for the last two years, Mark Anderson from Mickelson’s Drug has donated all the medicine that the medical team uses to help those in need in the village of San Jose.

Sarah Zeien, principal and alumna of Spooner’s St. Francis de Sales School, offered a short presentation to honor Sr. Dominica Effertz, OSM, at the end of Mass Nov. 3.

Marena Hoogland, formerly of the Diocese of Superior, became a Benedictine sister of Annunciation Monastery, Bismarck, North Dakota, Oct. 19.

Thomas Ericksen, a former priest of the Diocese of Superior, was sentenced Sept. 26 in Sawyer County Circuit Court to the maximum 30 years in prison for molesting boys while serving in diocesan parishes decades ago.

On Sunday, Oct. 6, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., New Dawn Pregnancy Resource Center, Woodruff, held an open house to showcase their new ultrasound machine.

Part two: Building bridges through Guernseys and local generosity

A Blessing of the Animals took place at St. Joseph Catholic School in Rice Lake Friday, Oct. 4.