May 9, 2010

The singers of Naujoji Intriga would like to thank all who attended their Mother's Day brunch last weekend. They hope you and your mom enjoyed the morning.

Today the traditional American celebration of Mother's Day will take place with a special buffet from 12 noon to 2:00 pm at Lithuanian Village. Reserve your family table by this Thursday, May 6th.

There is still time to donate to the Lithuanian Franciscans cancer support center project in Lithuania. Now through May 23rd, you can make your check payable to St. Casimir, and place it in an envelope marked "Lithuanian Cancer Center".

Today at 11:15 am, the Cleveland Ateitininkinai will hold their annual meeting in the upper hall at St. Casimir Parish. Lukas Laniauskas, S.J will be the keynote speaker.

Cleveland City Councilman Michael Polensek invites you to the official groundbreaking for the Collinwood Community and Recreation Center, next Saturday, May 15th at 10:00 am. The new rec center will be located at 16500 Lakeshore Boulevard.

On Monday, May 31st, Catholic War Veterans Post 613, now sponsored by St. Casimir Parish, will commemorate Memorial Day with a flag raising at the freedom monument in front of the St. Casimir rectory at 8:30 am. The Memorial Day ceremony will conclude with breakfast in the lower hall. The entire parish is invited.

Don't forget that the Academic Scouts Filisterai will present soprano Virginija Muliolis and pianist Michael Borowitz in the upper hall at St. Casimir on Saturday, June 5th.

St. Casimir Parish will hold a tag sale fund raiser on Saturday, June 12th from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm on the Neff Road parking lot. If you can spare a few hours to help with this event, please contact the coordinator Joan Carpenter at 216-486-5649.

Father Bacevicius sent a lovely greeting this week via email:

On behalf of the entire community of St. Casimir Parish, I want to thank Aldona and Greg for their service to the Lithuanian Community. For the last 18 years Aldona was the Lithuanian voice of Tevynes Garsai and Greg was the English voice. Both of their efforts really enhanced the quality of Lithuanian life in Cleveland, keeping the people informed of news and entertained with our beautiful culture. I wish both Greg and Aldona all the best in the future, and as pastor, I can now say: "See you in Church!"

God Bless you,

Fr. Joe Bacevice
Pastor, St. Casimir Parish

And this morning I received a card from the members of Exultate, along with their director Rita Kliorys:

It is with sadness that we say "Goodbye" to the Tevynes Garsai Lithuanian radio program, which for 60+ years was a source of information, news and music for the Lithuanians of Cleveland and its vicinity. It's amazing (and tiring) to think of the countless hours and sweat that went into the preparation of each Sunday's radio program by + Juozas, Aldona and Greg, along with the countless number of people who helped along the way in all those years.

The EXULTATE choir would like to thank you and Tevynes Garsai for all the help we received from you in the 28 year history of our choir. You have been with us every step of the way, advertising our goings on, playing our songs, recording and miking our concerts. For that we are ever grateful. It has been great working with you.

With this we say a most sincere thank you, THANK YOU for all that has been Tevynes Garsai! We, along with all of the Lithuanians in Cleveland will feel a huge loss in your absence.

So, as the radio program comes to its closing, we'd like to wish you many peaceful Sunday mornings, when you don't have to run to the studio barely having awoken. Well, and if you do have to wake up, it's to go on one of those long bike rides you enjoy! We hope this is not the last we see of you, that you will find many new projects to work on, and we hope that we can rely on your help in the future when organizing concerts. But for now, enjoy the newly acquired free time, freedom and bask in the wealth of memories of the very dear Tevynes Garsai!

I also want to thank Genovaite Karsokiene for the lovely card she sent this week. Ponia Karsokiene is one of our many loyal listeners, who always greeted us every year at Christmas.