Welcome home and get well wishes to Parish’s former Mayor Lillian Harter.  Lillian recently underwent heart surgery, was at St. Luke’s for a shorter time than what was projected, due to her determination.  Send her a letter of cheer at 2912 East Main Street, Parish, NY  13131.

Colleen Swartz Cicchetti of Brockport and Carrie Swartz Wells and son Dylan of Rochester spent Saturday and Sunday in Parish to help with their father's birthday party.

 Laura Swartz of Rockville MD; Jon, Brenda, Max and Maggie Swartz of Rochester; Todd, Brandon and Patrick Cichetti of Brockport and Jeremy Wells of Rochester arrived on Sunday to help with Fred's party.

 Carol Welch of Mt. Kisco, New York spent the weekend with her cousin Fred Swartz and family.

 Fred Swartz celebrated his 70th birthday with a  backyard picnic enjoyed by family, friends, current and former neighbors, and former co- workers at the East Syracuse -Minoa School System.

Mary Lou Guindon and Nancy Bookheimer met at the Grist Mill on Sunday evening for some catching up and confirming details on the upcoming Parish Olde Home Days.

Bob and Fran Gryzick (you know that couple that celebrated 50 years of marriage on June 7) had dinner at the Manhattan Moon with Ralph and Joyce Vesey and Jim and Carol Zender.  The three couples had dinner together at the same place the previous Friday.  Joyce and Carol were laughing, when they saw Bob and Fran enter the dining room and jokingly said, "Did you come in two cars, again?"   Fran asked what they meant, that they came in one car last week and this week.  The ladies laughed again and said in between giggles, “two identical Toyotas were next to each other in the parking lot last week and we saw you in one and Bob in the other.”  Well, Fran couldn't believe that they saw what had happened the week before.  Anyway, to make the story short, after Bob and Fran said goodbye last week, Fran went to the car, unlocked it and sat down in the drivers seat to wait for Bob.  She thought he was taking a long time to finish saying goodbye, then when she looked to the side, there Bob was sitting in the car next to her and just staring ahead waiting.  Needless to say, Fran became hysterical.  She let him sit there and after many precious moments he finally looked over Fran’s way.  Fran has never (in 50 years) seen Bob  move so quickly as he did when he got out of that other car.  Boy, Bob will never live this one down.  Gotcha Bob!

Chet and Gretchen Sayer are aunt and uncle to Liam Wells Scott Morton,  He is the new son of their niece, Kimberly Harter Morton and her husband Michael of Lexington, MA.  Congratulations to Michael and Kimberly and the proud grandparents Don and Dabby Harter.

Bill Harter and son, John and daughter, Jodi stopped by to see Chet and Gretchen Sayer on Tues., July 22.  John and Jodi  were home from Atlanta to visit family and friends.

Connie and Kara Shovlin and Kim Campbell enjoyed lunch on Sat. July 19 with Chet and Gretchen Sayer.

Jean Nellis and Gretchen Sayer recently escorted Gail Madison to lunch to celebrate Gail's birthday.

Last week Rose Henderson and Gretchen Sayer traveled to Oswego to visit folks in the nursing homes there.

The Classes of 1998 and 1999 will celebrate jointly a 10 Year Reunion.  They are in need of updated classmate contact information including addresses, email addresses, and possible name changes.  Please forward any information pertaining to members of the Class of 1998 or 1999 to Lisa Dennison Knapp at Lisavoley2@...

The Parish United Methodist Church and The Parish Faith Church of the Nazarene join together  to announce their Vacation Bible School.  The VBS, "God's Champions" will be held July 28th-Aug 1st, 6:30-8:30 PM, for ages 4-11 yrs, at the Nazarene Church.  Call 625-7740 for more info. 

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Blessings and Peace be with you,

Mary Lou Miller Guindon/'75
315 625 4575