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Published by the COAR Peace Mission * 4395 Rocky River Drive * Cleveland, Ohio 44135-2569 * (216) 252-5572

Sheltering, educating, and healing children for El Salvador's future since 1980

2008 June Articles:

Page 1 - 1st Communion Prayer Partners . . .	Page 4 & 5 - Chapel and roof repairs - major work
Page 2 - . . . help with Chapel Fountain Repair	Page 6 - Perfect Storms - wind and rising costs
Page 3 - 2 Annual Benefits in October - Save the Dates!!	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

More on wind damage - pictures Page 4&5, above, click for costs >>

March Articles:

Page 1 - Back to School in 2008	Page 4 & 5 - Buen Provecho - taking good advantage of food
Page 2 - 2007 Annual Report on Sponsorship . . .	Page 6 - Blown Away - Wind Storms Jan. 2nd
Page 3 - 2007 Sponsorship ideas	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2007 December Articles:

Page 1 - 2007 - The the Year in Pictures . . .	Page 4 & 5 - Give the Gift of Sponsorship
Page 2 - 2007 - The end of the year, anyway	Page 6 - Giving that Changes the World
Page 3 - 2007 Annual Benefit - Sr. Mary Pat Fund for Special Education	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2007 September Articles:

Page 1 - Special Education at COAR . . .	Page 4 & 5 - COAR gets an A - new computers (thanks!)
Page 2 - Giving the benefits of	Page 6 - Baptism by Visitors
Page 3 - Education to all Children . . . ANNUAL BENEFIT	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2007 June Articles:

Page 1 - The Graduating Class. . .	Page 4 & 5 - The Pride, the Stats
Page 2 - Four Special Students	Page 6 - Pride in El Salvador
Page 3 - Sr. Mary Pat - Saying Goodbye with a New Endowment Fund	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2007 March Articles:

Page 1 - High Holy Days . . .	Page 4 & 5 - What a Girl Wants . . . What a Girl Needs
Page 2 - The place of faith in the lives of the children . . .	Page 6 - High Holy Days, indeed
Page 3 - Vickie Cavanaugh reflects on a year in service at COAR	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2006 December Articles:

Page 1 - Nahum, orphaned but not abandoned . . .	Page 4 & 5 - Memorial Garden at COAR's heart
Page 2 - Alumnus Edgar Tolentino thanks you for COAR	Page 6 - Remembering Julia Gurka
Page 3 - Annual Benefit Results	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary - three teenagers

2006 September Articles:

Page 1 - Seminarian Summer . . .	Page 4 & 5 - Sponsorship Gems
Page 2 - in service at COAR	Page 6 - Seminarians & Priests
Page 3 - Annual Benefit Project	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2006 June Articles:

Page 1 - A College Semester . . .	Page 4 & 5 - Solidarity
Page 2 - in service at COAR . . .	Page 6 - Gifts from the heart
Page 3 - the Casa de Solidaridad	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2006 March Articles:

Page 1 - Why COAR?	Page 4 & 5 - Special gifts!!
Page 2 - Because it works!	Page 6 - Easter Appeal
Page 3 - Strategic Planning	Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

2005 December Articles:

A week of festivities around the 25th anniversary August 15th . . . including hundreds of alumni, Archbishop LaCalle of San Salvador, members of Fr. Ken’s family, and so many more . . .
Remembering the very beginning . . . Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, murdered December 2, 1980 . . . she helped with the refugees who would become the first COAR orphans and paid the ultimate price . . .
and Fr. Ken . . . a testimonial from an alum now living in the U.S. Floods and volcanoes in El Salvador

2005 September Articles:

A COAR Story . . .Antonio Aquino, now working in El Salvador's Supreme court, remembers the women who became his mothers and says, "God Bless You Sisters of Charity" . . .
	Meet the Bad Boys of Casa San Jose . . . one of the houses where 10 young boys, ages 6 – 10, eat, sleep, do homework and chores, and play together . . .

2005 May Articles:

Healing Sergio's Family - A Dying Mother's Wish . . . Motherless. The little boy on this year’s calendar and on the last newsletter is Sergio. He is five years old, the youngest of six, four older brothers and a sister. He came to COAR a year and a half ago, when his mother was dying . . .
	Two for COAR . . .the 25th Anniversary coincided with the death of Pope John Paul II . . . Romero painting donated by NE Ohio artist . . .
25th Anniversary of Romero's Assasination . . . was remembered at COAR with a poem and picture contest . . .

2005 February Articles:

COAR Children's Village Inaugurates Its 25th Year . . . with parades, speeches, and the dedication of Calle Padre Kenneth Carlo Myers Brown, a beautiful new road into COAR . . .
A COAR Story . . . Francisco Heriberto Chicas Orphaned then Employee of COAR . . .
2004 Annual Benefit . . . New Classroom Construction: $11,000 Raised . . . - and - Updates on Past Annual Benefit Projects . . . Mariela is six years old. She came to COAR extremely malnourished this year, but is doing quite well after treatment . . .

2004 Spring Articles:

COAR Team in International Children's Games!! . . .
. . . Words cannot express what it was like to see COAR kids in Cleveland and mingling with the world at this spectacular international event . . .

Sr. Stan, COAR Pioneer, RIP 1916 - 2004 . . . . . . "I love these children. We sow our destiny here . . . If they shoot my head off tomorrow, I don't mind. I feel I've done my best . . "
COAR Cafeteria Opens March 15 !! . . . . . . The project of the 2002 Annual Benefit is ready to serve the students, staff, and surrounding economy . . .

Summer Parish Mission Appeals . . .
A major source of funds for COAR. Consider speaking or ask your pastor to have COAR speak . . .

"Missionaries" (a play by Elizabeth Swados) . . .
Willoughby Fine Arts Center, Cleveland, OH, (440) 951-6637
COAR Speaker: April 17, 7:00-9:00 pm
Therese Osborn, former associate of Sr. Dorothy Kazel will speak about COAR as the legacy of the "Missionaries" . . .

Special Events

May 14 - 7:00 pm - Reunion of all high school, college, and recent grad COAR visitors @ La Casa Tazumal, (W150th St, one block S of Lorain) - 52 attended!!!

March 23 - Easter Sunday (preceded by Holy Week - the most elaborate celebrations in the world!)

January 15 - First Day of School at COAR

January 2 - Wind storms rip El Salvador

Visitors in 2008:

March 20-28, 2008 - St. Edward High School, Lakewood, OH

March 22-26, 2008 - Elizabeth Stofelano Senior Service Trip, Albany, NY

June 18-25, 2008 - St. Joseph Church, Strongsville, OH - Parish Partnership

June 25- July 3, 2008 - St. Rita & Resurrection & Sts. Cosmas and Damian - Cluster parish trip

Visitors in 2007:

June 11-18 - St.Gabriel, Charlotte, NC - Youth Group

July 18-25 - St. Bernadette & St. Ladislas, Westlake, OH - Youth Group

July 30&31 - Church of the Resurrection, Solon, OH - Social Concerns

August 1-10 - St. Mary, Hudson, OH - Young Adults

November 16-25 - Villa Angela St. Joseph & Beaumont High Schools, Cleveland, OH

Regular Features:
Memorials/Special Gifts . . .

Sponsor's Corner . . . Welcome new sponsors!! . . . Thanks to those who have welcomed new children . . .
From the COAR Peace Mission Executive Director 2006 March . . . An Easter Appeal 2005 December . . . Hurricanes 2005 September . . Love 2005 May . . . Dignity 2005 Feb . . . Lenten Rebirth 2004 November. . . the Games 2004 March . . . Lenten Death
News From El Salvador - October 2005, update on floods and volcanoes - Basic information on El Salvador

Romero Assassinated
March 24, 1980

Let us not develop an education that creates in the mind of the student a hope of becoming rich and having the power to dominate. Let us form in the heart of a child and young person the idea of loving, of preparing oneself to serve and giving oneself to others.

--January 22, 1978

COAR 25th Anniversary 2005
Please participate . . .

We would appreciate any reflections, stories, or news items for inclusion in a 25th year archive and history we are assembling.

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