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

Archbishop Escobar Alas with COAR Board of Trutees on 9/19/09
He visited our office to
Secure the Future of COAR!
2009 December Articles:

Page 1 - Like you were there - Msgr. Antall shows our benefit guests . . . Page 4 & 5 - . . . and the homes our children come from - and the home they find
Page 2 - . . . COAR success stories . . . Page 6 - Floods Nov 5-13 - loosing what little they have
Page 3 - THANKS! - Annual Benefit Secures the Future with $84,454 Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary



2009 September Articles:
Page 1 - Sponsorship Drive saves 29 children - thanks St. Joseph! Page 4 & 5 - First Communion partnerships and Aug. 15th fun!
Page 2 - The CCVI Sisters say goodbye after 25 years - looking to our Future . . . Page 6 - Saying goodbye to the CCVI and others who served in
El Salvador
Page 3 - Oct. 6th Annual Benefit Luncheon - "Securing the Future" Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary



2009 June Articles:
Page 1 - Does my sponsorship matter? Yes! Ask Gamaliel . . . Page 4 & 5 - St. Ed High School visits and heals with strong arms
Page 2 - COAR 10th grade builds an alfombra in Zaragoza Page 6 - We wait upon the Archbishop and celebrate weddings!
Page 3 - COAR On-line is here! So many ways to give . . . Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary



2009 March Articles:
Page 1 - 25 years of the CCVI at COAR . . . Page 4 & 5 - Chapel hosts 25th anniversary celebration
Page 2 - "Who receives a child in my name receives me." Page 6 - Love and Fear and the Bible: this world is passing away
Page 3 - COAR History available - New Archbishops and old friends Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary



2008 December Articles:

Page 1 - Salvadoran Catholic Women bring the message . . . Page 4 & 5 - Repaired Chapel is Reopened
Page 2 - How Precious to God Every Kid at COAR is! Page 6 - Faith, Because things Do Get Better!
Page 3 - 2 Annual Benefit Fun Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary


2008 September Articles:

Page 1 - How are the chapel repairs going? . . . Page 4 & 5 - Photo benefit preview (see the beauty)
Page 2 - . . . meet two (of the many) who have helped. Page 6 - The Sacred Heart of the Community - Parents
Page 3 - 2 Annual Benefits in October - DETAILS Page 7 - Memorials and Honorary

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 2008 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


Older . . .


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 . . .


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

January 21 - Fundraiser for St. Ed HS trip to COAR @ P.J. McIntyre Pub (click) - 20% of sales to trip

January 12, 2010 - First day of school at COAR

2 December 1980 - murders of 4 North American Churchwomen including our own Sr. Dorothy Kazel, OSU, and Jean Donovan.

15 November 1989 - murders of 6 Jesuits, their housekeeper and her daughter at the UCA, University of Central America

November 9 - Floods in El Salvador kill 100+, more missing. COAR is OK but our community and children's families are affected
--- READ the CV Director's latest report (click)

--- From the BBC (click)

October 6 - COAR Annual Luncheon Benefit, Cleveland, OH - Securing the Future Fund

September 30 - 4th Inter-diocesan Missionary Social for those serving the El Salvador Missions, St. Barnabas, Northfield, OH

September 18 - Archbishop of San Salvador Escobar, 7:00pm mass and reception: Sacred Heart Chapel, Lorain, OH (click)

Visitors in 2010:

June 28-July 7 - Padua Franciscan High School, Parma, OH

June 16-23 - St. Joseph Church, Strongsville, OH - Parish Partnership

May 31-June 7 - St. Edward High School, Lakewood, OH

March 18-20 - University of Seattle (w CRISPAZ)

March 13-18 - Holy Name Parish, Garfield Hts., OH

February 17-19 - VASJ and Beaumont High Schools, Cleveland, OH

Visitors in 2009:

November 22-25 - Kate's Kids Sports Scholarship Presentation, Harrisburg area, PA

May 20-28 - John Carroll University, Service Trip


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



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


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