Walkers Support St. Vincent De Paul
Organizers of the 7th Annual St. Vincent de Paul Walk for the Poor hoped for 250 people to participate in the Sept. 20 event. By the time the first walkers left on their journey around the grounds of the Evansville State Hospital on Lincoln Avenue, it was clear that those hopes had been exceeded.
Bishop Charles C. Thompson welcomed, thanked and prayed with the record 307 walkers who formally registered for the event, which offered participants one-, two- and three-mile routes on a near-perfect late-summer morning.
Other numbers:
• Forty-nine sponsors contributed $19,000 this year. Those numbers are the second highest in event history.
• Walkers contributed more than $10,000, the fourth-highest total ever.
• The 2014 Walk for the Poor will net more than $25,000 for use by St Vincent de Paul conferences this coming year.
The St. Vincent de Paul food bank serves 1,100 monthly – or roughly 70 percent of all the people served by food banks in the greater Evansville area.
John Payne, manager of Evansville’s St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store, on Walnut Street, also spoke and invited everyone to attend the store’s second annual Block Party from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 4.
