Photograph by George Sakkestad
Bishop Stanislaw Szyrokoradiuk of Poland blesses the food during the Easter Sunday event at St. Cyprian church in Sunnyvale.
By ANNE GELHAUS
The Catholic Community of Resurrection Parish has launched a campaign to raise $1.2 million to expand its facilities.
The Hollenbeck Avenue church plans to use the funds to build classrooms for day care, preschool and kindergarten, as well as a science lab, a computer lab and a library. This will enable the church to move these facilities from the Farana Parish Center, where they've been housed for many years.
"During recent years," said Rev. Michael J. O'Connor, "it has become evident that the parish center doesn't provide adequate space for the school's needs. Nor does it allow for widespread parish use, as was originally intended."
Two years ago, the church formed the Refit 2000 Committee to help with a feasibility study for the project. The committee determined that in addition to a new classroom building, the parish was badly in need of a new roof and a resurfaced parking lot. Fundraising campaign director Christine O'Connell said the church is hoping to complete these renovations by the year 2000.
O'Connell said committee members are asking for pledges of money and/or volunteer hours from the parish community through May 31. These pledges will be collected over a 36-month period.
For more information, call the fundraising campaign office at 245-5554.
This article appeared in the Sunnyvale Sun, April 10, 1996.
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