Monsignor Lawrence E. Giblin Division One
Broome County, NY - March 2025

​​​BROOME COUNTY LAOH JUNIORS

     Our Junior members had fun making crafts and selling them at their table on Irish Day. A special, thank you to Peggy McManus for the beautiful basket, Kathleen Nilsson for the artwork, and Patricia Walsh for stained glass. We appreciate your support. Your donations helped make their fundraiser a success.
Thank you to everyone who supported the Krispy Kreme fundraiser. The juniors are on their way to meeting their fundraising goals. Coming up is the Junior bake sale in conjunction with the AOH chicken barbecue on April 26. Check out the AOH article for more information.
Our next meeting is April 5th at 1 PM at the AOH Hall. We will fill the Krispy Kreme orders and make something special for our homebound Hibernian ladies. We are actively recruiting new members, age 5 to 18 for the Junior Division and looking to our brothers and sisters for help. Please reach out to family or non-family members who are eligible. As our girls age out, it is important to keep our membership growing strong with the hope that they continue to be lifelong members of the LAOH. For information contact your division president or pick up an application at the hall.

 In our motto, Friendship, Unity, and Christian Charity.

Debbie Burke, 607-727-7183 and Eileen Rowley, 607-761-0212, Junior Co-ordinators

LAOH Division Two

Deborah Burke, President

  Thank you to the Hibernian Parade Committee, AOH/LAOH divisions, and the many volunteers who make the St. Patrick’s Day parade and Saint Mary’s Mass possible.
 We hope you support our Lenten Soup Supper on Good Friday April 18 from 4:30 to 6 PM. Take out your choice of soup, bread and dessert for eight dollars. Call or text 607-759-1820 or sign up at the hall. Order deadline is April 11.
 Welcome Martha Steed, Marie Almy, Sarah Hogan, and Maggie Hogan to LAOH Division 2. We are grateful for your membership! We hope you experience all the benefits of membership as well as enjoying the many events at our hall. Last month we rolled out the 2025 LAOH Division 2 Mary Curry memorial scholarship. Encourage your family members who are eligible to apply. Applications are due by April 31.
 Members are welcome to attend the NYS LAOH Board Spring meeting on May 3 in East Durham at 10 AM. The closing Mass will be on Sunday at 10:00 AM at the Mass Rock.
 It’s time to start thinking about attending the 2025 AOH/LAOH convention from 7/17 to 7/20 in Rochester, NY. For information visit: nyhibes2025.com.
 We are collecting dues for 2025. You can pay your due.($30) at our monthly meeting, drop at the hall, or send a check payable to: LAOH Division 2 with your dues card and a self address stamped envelope to Darlene Cameno, 43 Marys Rd.; Windsor, NY 13865.
 Thank you to our members for volunteering for the AOH Breakfast and in the kitchen for the various events in March. Many hands make light work. Our prayers and sympathy to Kathy and Tom Burns for the loss of Kathy’s mother.

  Our next division meeting is Wednesday, April 16 at 7 PM. I look forward to seeing everyone there. We hope you will take time out of your busy life and join us.

“Lá fhéile Pádraig sona dhuit!” 

Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Debbie

dburke8@stny.rr.com 

LAOH County Board

Michele Talcott, President

I would like to send a big thank you to the Parade Committee for such a wonderful parade day. I would also like to thank the AOH for a beautiful Mass and to the Corporation for all the entertainment for March. So much to be thankful for.

In our motto,
Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity

Michele Talcott, President

607-349-8736

LAOH Division ONe

Barbara Walling, President 

Wishing everyone a blessed and joyful Easter!

  We are looking forward to getting to know our newest members. Welcome Robyn Hawley, Mary Savelli, Linda Zemanik, and Patricia Williams.
  The months of February, and March are filled with opportunities to celebrate our Irish heritage and support many events at our hall. My thanks and appreciation to all of you who supported in anyway, these events. It never ceases to amaze me how many of you not only support our division events like our Ash Wednesday Simple Soup fundraiser, and our monthly mission in motion projects, but also volunteer at events like the Men’s Irish Breakfast and those who helped at the hall for Parade Day and the weekend leading up to St. Patrick’s Day either by working in the kitchen, providing desserts or bartending. Thank you for living our motto!
 Dues are being collected you can pay dues at our monthly meeting, or you can mail your check made out to LAOH Division 1 for $30, your membership card, and a self addressed stamped envelope to Eileen Zemek, 1960 Hawleyton Road, Binghamton, NY 13903.
 Please remember in your prayers, the families and friends of those who have recently passed away, including AOH member Hugh Reynolds, AOH member Jim Cullen, Joan Hanahue, mother of LAOH division one member Katie Burns, Mary Durgin, mother of LAOH division two member Diane Durgin-Sullivan and Joe Wiktorek; friend of many AOH/LAOH members. Continuing prayers also for our Hibernian sisters and brothers and their families in need of healing prayers.
 Our next meeting is on Friday, April 11 and starts at 7 PM with a decade of rosary being recited at 6:45 PM. Our mission for this meeting is filling plastic Easter eggs for the Children’s Charity of Greater Binghamton Easter Egg Hunt at Recreation Park on April 19. Please consider donations of individually wrapped small candy which will fit in plastic Easter eggs. I hope you will join us for our meeting.

Yours in Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity,

Barb
bwalling@binghamton.edu  607-232-6367