Parables
Parish Picnic
By Ron Kobishop
The parish picnic as we now know it, lapsed for a few years in the 1960s and was resurrected by Fr. Peter in 1970. We were co-chairs with the Mitchs for a couple years and chairpersons until 1998. Many of the games, stands and benches were built over the years and are still in use. With the help of a lot of good volunteers over the past 39 years, our parish picnic is the best!
In the early 1970s, I went down to Ehr Hall to check the number of wooden tables we had for the picnic, I thought it was 22. Lo and behold, there were none. What happened to them? There was nowhere else to store them. I called the rectory and Jo Frank said she thought Msgr. Finucan lent them to someone. Except the good monsignor forgot who it was! There was a lot of head scratching. Someone remembered there was a flea market at the 51 drive-in. The manager was only there at night. If those are your tables, come and get them out of our storage, he said. Just what I needed, load 22 tables and unload them to Ehr Hall. It was a long 11-7 shift that night.
The 1970 parish picnic profit was $1,086. Hamburgers were 15 cents and beers cost a dime. We've come a long way baby!