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Each year, the employees at New Directions Health Care donate the proceeds from their dress down days during the holiday season to St. Patrick’s Haven.  Owner Kara Bennett also presented a donation from New Directions to support our mission.  Many of the New Directions Health Care clients are guests at St. Patrick’s Haven.  No one…

Each year, Burton Funeral Home provides Stockings for Soldiers at Christmas to area non-profits. Because several of our guests are veterans, St. Patrick’s Haven is included in this generous donation.  Burton Funeral Home employees Abby and Austin Knapp recently delivered Christmas stockings for all of the guests at St. Patrick’s Haven.  Thank you, Burton Funeral…

Avery remembered the conversation Betsy Wiest had with her class about homelessness when she was a student at St. Gregory’s School.  Now as an upperclassman at Mercyhurst Prep, she put those memories into action and coordinated a Blessing Bag Project for our guests at St. Patrick’s Haven. Her Blessing Bags contained items such as: socks,…

During Advent, Sandy Hodas and Marge Burbee coordinated the annual Advent Giving Tree for the parishioners of Holy Rosary and St. John’s Churches. The parishioners remember St. Patrick’s Haven each Advent.  Parishioners take an ornament off the tree, which they keep and replace it with much needed items for St. Patrick’s Haven such as:  coffee…

Mercyhurst University students, Alison and Elizabeth Bakowski recently coordinated a collection and made Blessing Bags for New Year’s Eve for our guests at St. Patrick’s Haven.  The students included several items our guests use on a regular basis such as socks, snacks, individual sized toiletries, etc.  Thank you Mercyhurst students for helping make the holiday…

Each year, the students at Our Lady of Peace School spend Advent learning about various nonprofits throughout the area.  Each grade then collects items for their nonprofit.  Once again, St. Patrick’s Haven was the recipient of this very special Advent project.  Under the direction of OLP teacher, Maria Ehrman, students in grades 7-8 learned about…

Margo Keefer loves to knit and once again this year knitted slippers for our guests at St. Patrick’s Haven.  The slippers were part of the Blessings bags given to each guest on Christmas Eve.  Receiving their pair of handmade slippers from Margo has become a Christmas tradition at St. Patrick’s Haven and means that Margo…

The managers at Saint Mary’s Home of Erie chose St. Patrick’s Haven as the recipient of their group Christmas donation this year.  St. Mary’s Home Executive Director, Allen Bonace, presented Betsy Wiest of St. Patrick’s Haven with a check for $1,000!  Thank you, St. Mary’s Home managers, for helping us provide support for the homeless…

A HUGE THANK YOU goes out this week to the residents of Springhill Retirement Center who donated cleaning supplies for St. Patrick’s Haven.  Their generosity is a tremendous help to us.  As you know, keeping things cleaner than usual right now is absolutely necessary in helping to stop the spread of COVID.  Our cleaning crew…

Residents at the Pennsylvania Soldiers and Sailors Home in Erie, Pa recently conducted a collection of hats and gloves for St. Patrick’s Haven.  On any given night, roughly 1/3 of the men who come to St. Patrick’s Haven are veterans.  Thank you to their fellow soldiers and sailors for your caring and your kindness to…