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Pregnancy Care Center of Bellevill, will celebrate its 28th anniversary on April 9 at the Celebration of Life Annual Dinner/Auction. The McCormick Center, at 301 South First Street, Belleville, will host the event. Doors will open at 5 p.m. with dinner served at 6:30 p.m. Cost for the evening is: adults: $15.00; children: $7.50 (age 3 and under free). Reservations are due by April 1.
To make reservations call Connie Reitano 277-8571.

The Pregnancy Care Center is an alternative to abortion and offers many services free of charge. The Care Center is staffed by volunteers from the Diocese of Belleville, and is located at 301 West Lincoln, Suite 52, Belleville.
For more information please call Kathy 233-2273 or Gloria 235-6797.

St. Paul Parish, Johnston City is hosting a “Soup Supper” March 31, from 5-6:30 p.m. in the parish hall. The supper will consist of at least 12 varieties of homemade soups. Crackers, desserts and refreshments will also be available. Free-will offerings will be accepted. Proceeds of the event will be donated to the Soup Kitchen in Cairo.
For more information call Sister Catherine Wellinghoff, ASC 983-5073.

At St. Clare Parish in O'Fallon, the Earth Concerns Committee will host an “Awakening the Dreamer” Symposium, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 2. Symposium organizers suggested participants could be “startled” into a new awareness of the world around them. After the Symposium they might wonder why it took them so long to see the world differently.

The Symposium was created to change the dream of the modern world, a dream of consumption, competition and acquisition, to one of sustainability, justice and peace, staffers at St. Clare said. The ideas grew out of an alliance between the indigenous people of Ecuador and some North Americans who viewed the world differently and chose to do something about it.

The Symposium is an interactive workshop designed to inspire participants to play a role in creating an alternative future: an “environmentally sustainable, spiritually fulfilling, and socially just human presence on this planet.”
It does not proselytize. Rather, it simply presents facts about what the situation is in today’s world and how it came to be. It then helps participants explore their own experiences to imagine different options for the future.

Fee for the day is $15 and includes a soup and salad lunch that will be made from locally grown foods.
For more information see www.awakeningthedreamer.org. To register contact Sister Carolyn McWatters at stclareawakeningthedreamer@yahoo.com. The registration deadline is Saturday, March 26.