Archive for August, 2008

Book Club

August 4, 2008

       ECW Readers and Friends met recently to review and discuss (with both laughter and tears) Randy Pausch’s best-selling book The Last Lecture.  A highly respected and popular computer science professor at Carnegie- Mellon, Dr. Pausch is married and the father of three young children.
     On almost the same day that he was invited to [...]

Thread Guild

August 4, 2008

 The St. Michael’s Thread Guild is an organization that supplies hand-made items to give comfort and hope to people in need—including people who are ill or undergoing stressful treatments for illnesses. These items include prayer shawls, blankets, hats, and scarves. The Thread Guild uses knitting, naalbinding, and crocheting to make these one-of-a-kind gifts. If you [...]