Youth from area parishes and Nellie Serna pose with Bishop Wm. Michael Mulvey as Jaime Reyna presents a check to Linda McKamie, Executive Director of Catholic Charities. The funds were raised from some of the proceeds of Catholic Schools Night with the Hooks.

Sixty youth from area parishes were hand picked by their youth ministers to welcome and escort invited guests to the Clergy and Religious Appreciation Banquet at the Soloman Ortiz Center on Oct. 27. The youth were from: St. Elizabeth and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Alice; St. Mary in Robstown; Our Lady of Mt. Carmel in Portland; St. Helena, St. Pius X and Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Corpus Christi. They presented Linda McKamie, Executive Director of Catholic Charities, a check raised from Catholic Schools Night with the Hooks. The proceeds went to the Mother Teresa Shelter. The youth escorted guests as they were leaving and handed out books, “Becoming the Body of Christ, A History of the Diocese of Corpus Christi.”