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THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1985 "Sister Adrian, The Mother Theresa of Scranton" on WITF I SCRANTON The plight of the is examined in a public television documentary which tells of the Humanitarian work of a little nun with big heart who serves them. The half-hour special, narrated by -actor Martin Sheen, sheds light on the of the less fortunate by look. ing at the remarkable efforts of Sister Adrian Barrett. IHM Titled Sister I Adrian. The Mother Teresa of Scran- ton." the WVIA production will air in I June on member stations of the Penn- sylvania Public Television Network i PPTN i.

The film airs on Channel 33 I WITF. Harrisburg Friday at 10 p.m. Sister Adrian, who stands 4-feet. 11- inches tall in her customary jogging I shoes, is shown in the film in scenes taken in and around the Scranton, Pa. I area as she works and begs to make the lives of her needv more livable.

Bishop John O'Connor now Cardinal O'Connor i called her "our own Mother Teresa." Others have referred to her as a one-woman social agency, the nearest person to a saint they have met. and the little nun with the big heart. Sister Adrian Barrett identifies herself as "a short, fat. middle-aged nun Dorothy Barrett was born over five decades ago on Dunmore. east of Scranton.

one of several children of Paul A. and Mildred Barrett She was graduated from Marywood Seminary, and entered the religious community of Sister. Servants 01 the Immaculate Heart of Mary of the Diocese of Scranton. After her profession in 1H9. Sister Adrian served as teacher on the elementary and high school levels at parochial schools in Pennsylvania.

New York and Maryland She received her BA degree education i from Marywood Cofiege. Scranton. and her MA i history from St John's University. Jamaica. Long Island 1969 Sister Adrian served as chairman -jf the history department at St Dominic's High School.

Oyster Bay. Long Island Her accomplishments there were the subject of a New York Times article 11974 Th" dynamic. 4-year-old nun is followed as she works among the poor, the elderly and the young 01 Northeastern Pennsylvania Scenes show Sister Adrian escorting the sick to the hospital, the imprisoned to court. and underprivileged children to the summer camp she runs She also visits nursing home residents and organizes food- baskets-for-the-poor for the holidays The film captures her abilit to bring out the generosity of people as they hsten to her pleadings and give what they can to help the poor Producer Jerry Colbert explained that he met Sister Adrian and as mi- pressed by her ureless. wide-ranging services He had seen a film on the work of Mother Teresa of Calcutta aiid decided to make the saine type of documentary on the nun in Scrantun "Sister Adrian.

The Mother Teresa of Scranton' is a production of WVIA. and is made possible by grants from PPTN Northeastern Bank 01 Pennsylvania, the Scrantun Area Foundation friends from the Jewish community of Scranton. the Pennsylvania Humanities Council, and the Catholic Conference Married priest switches from schismatic church By PETER COY Associated Press Writer ROCHESTER. N.Y. (APi The Roman Catholic Church has made a gesture of reconciliation to a schismatic church founded by Polish-Americans, acting in the case of a married priest of the church who converted to Roman Catholicism.

The Rev. Melvin H. Walczak was accepted this week into the Roman Catholic Church and its priesthood without undergoing reordination. He was ordained in the Polish National Catholic Church, which broke away from the mother church in 1900. Walczak is the first Roman Catholic priest in the United States who is married but did not start out as an Episcopalian, according to Roman Catholic theologians.

Twenty-six married Episcopal priests have become Roman Catholic priests in the United States since the conversions were permitted in 1981. but they all had to be reordamed Until last week. Walczak was pastor of St. Casimir's Polish National Catholic Church in the Rochester suburb of Irondequoit. In important gesture of ecumenism, his ordination vows in that church were accepted as valid by the Vatican The Polish National Catholic Church was founded in Scranton.

in 1900 by Polish-Americans who felt discriminated against in the Roman Catholic Church! It has about 300,000 members, mainly in the northeastern United States and Canada The church follows the Roman Catholic Church on most doctrinal matters but does not recognize the primacy or infallibility of the pope. Roman Catholic theologians have been holding ecumenical discussions with the Polish National Catholic Church, and "this will probably move the dialogue along more quickly." the Rev Joseph A Hart, an associate professor of theology at St. Bernard's Institute in Rochester, said Tuesday. The acceptance of Walczak's vows has international implications. Hart said, because the Polish National Catholic Church is part of the Union of Utrecht, also known as the Old Catholic Church, a group of Catholic- churches in the Netherlands.

Austria. Czechoslovakia. West Germany, Poland and Switzerland that have broken away from the Vatican since By accepting the validity of Walczak's vows, the Vatican may have signaled its acceptance of the vows of priests in the other Union of Utrecht churches who might decide to become Roman Catholics, according to Hart, who shepherded application through to approval. Walczak and his wife. Joanne, have two sons Darryl.

15. and Gregory. 12. He a native of Kearney. Walczak will spend a six-month period of transition at St.

Joseph's Church in the Rochester suburb of Penfield before receiving an assignment in the Rochester diocese. Hart said. Hart said the Vatican instructed the Diocese of Rochester to downplay Walczak's move to Roman Catholicism and said Walczak himself would have no comment The Polish National Catholic Church has five dioceses, based in Scranton. Chicago; Manchester. N.H..

Buffalo-Pittsburgh; and Toronto. The schismatic church was formed at a time when Polish Catholic immigrants felt discriminated against by the Roman Catholic hierarchy, then dominated bv Irish immigrants "The wicked ditch" is hardlv dead Cross-Florida canal is still hotly debated issue By RON WORD Associated Press Writer I JACKSONVILLE. Fla. i A A state 'lawmaker once summed up the fight against the Cross Florida Barge Canal by saying. "The wicked ditch is -I However, both opponents and supporters of a shipping lane across Jhe state from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean know that although the anal may be terminally ill.

it is hardly -I Congress has never eliminated the from the federal government's of public works projects, although Richard Nixon suspended -Jrork on it in 1971 when it was about ne-third complete. meetings Emmitsburg EMMITSBURG A pair of upcom- "mg town meetings here will address -Jater withdrawal from a local creek the disposition of a main street -Jruject. On June 27. a public Water Re- meeting will be held at 10 a.m. the town office.

Mayor Robert M. 'Preston reported the 'meeting, pre- slated for Friday, will focus on Jhe town's withdrawal permit for gallons day from Tom's Creek. "Department of Water Resources rep jesentatives will be on hand to explain 4heir decision and the permit process. A June 24 meeting, scheduled for 7 Ip.m. at the town office will discuss the ongoing Main Street project.

Earlier jn the spring, the town turned down the -State Highway Administration's offer Xf a SI.3 million to reconstruct the by- because parking would be elimih- 'ated on one side of the street. The SHA now said it will reconstruct Main Street and leave parking on both sides. THE GETTYSBURG TIMES USPS 218140' Last week, a standing-room-oniy crowd of about 250 people jammed a meeting room at the St. Johns River Water Management District headquarters in Palatka where a congressional subcommittee heard testimony on the project's future. The subcommittee is expected to vote on the measure next month.

Gov. Bob Graham and other state leaders, along with environmentalists. pushed for taking the project off the list of public works projects, while business and civic leaders urged continuation of the 110-mile canal." "Wedo not want this canal. Period," said the governor. "We have many.

many needs we need new schools. more teachers, roads, bridges, mass transit, water and sewer lines but there is one thine we don't need, and that's the Cross Florida Barge Canal." Graham said the state Legislature. governor and Cabinet have asked repeatedly since 1972 that the project be "Congressmen, how many times do we have to say no? How many ways are there to say no? Please take no for an answer." Graham told the subcommittee. Florida Defenders of the Environment and the Sierra Club aiso supported discontinuing the project Dr. John Kaufmann.

a University of Florida zoology professor and chairman of a Florida Defenders of the Environment committee, said the waterway could damage endangered species such as the eagle and osprey. On the other side was George Linviiie. chairman of the Cross Florida Barge Canal Association. "The bottom line is that the canal ought to be built and it should be built as soon as it is possible." said Linviiie U.S. Rep.

Bill Chappell of Daytona Beach Shores, a longtime supporter of the project, said future generations should decide the issue. "The atmosphere is not conducive for completion now." he said. Other supporters, such as U.S. Rep. Charles Bennett of Jacksonville, said no action on deautnorization should be considered until the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers completes a new economic study later this year. A 1977 Corps study snowed that although the canal was a feasible project and the environmenta! impact was not severe, the economic benefits were marginal and the canal should not be built. A canal across northern Florida has sparked imagination and controversy for more than 130 years. As early as" 1828. Congress authorized a study of building a canal across north Florida to save some 600 miles of navigation around the peninsula.

When President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed a sea-level canal through the region in 1935. opponents warned that "south Florida will become a desert." Roosevelt pushed a telegraph key from the little White House" in New- York on Sept. 19.1935 to set off a blast of dynamite in Florida and begin the canal. During WnHH War Ii.

the waterway- was seen as a means to move military- cargoes without threat of Nazi submarines. When the war ended, the Published Daily Except and Holidays SUBSCRIPTION RATES Copv 30 Cents MAIL Month S7.25 Months S19.00 Months $36.00 i)ne Year $64.00 First Blood Part II Shows 'Dinner Specials THURSDAY -Tempura Fuji-Ya FRIDAY -Tempura Shrimp 58.45 -DAILY LLVCHCOS All Include Salad Appetizer Takeouts Available fuji-Va canal project lapsed into the first of many hibernations. While campaigning for the presidency. Sen John F. Kennedy pledged that the canal would be built if he occupied the White House.

In 1962 President Kennedy authorized resumption of the project. President Lyndon Johnson traveled to Palatka on Feb. 17.1964 and set off a dynamite blast to renew the digging. Seven years later. President Nixon may have signaled the beginning of the end when he suspended work on the waterway, citing environmental reasons.

Nixon said it was time to "prevent a past mistake by causing permanent damage" to the Oklawaha River, which borders the Ocala National Forest. The project, in limbo since then, was halted with about 25 miles of channel. three locks, three dams and four bridges completed at a cost of S76 million. The Corps now spends about SI.5 million a year to maintain the finished sections, which run from east of Yankeetown into the Gulf of Mexico and from Palatka to near Orange Springs. The canal was planned to connect with the St.

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Pie JUNE 22: Moose Band of Hanover Roast Beet Platters i hiimg. Mashed Potatoes Fish Sanciuiv hev French Fries. Soup, Pie FIREMEN'S PARADE MOVES AT 6:00 P.M. CAKE DONATIONS ACCEPTf CROSS KE9S DRIUE-in 30 OXrCWD 624 7441 VIEW TO KILL" Rated P.O. Rated THE ACTOR, AND THE NUN Actor Martin Sheen and Sister Adrian Barrett attend Mass follow in" filming of a documentary on the humanitarian work of the nun.

a member of the Sisters. Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Order in Scranton. Pa. Brendan Geoghan awarded Eagle GETTYSBURG Brendan Geoghan. 17.

son of Lt. Col. i Ret. i and Mrs. Thomas Geoghan.

Gettysburg, received his Boy Scouts of A'merica Eagle June 15 at 5:30 Mass at St. Francis Xavier Church. State Kepresentative Kenneth J. Cole made the presentation of the Boy Scouts' highest honor to Troop 78's latest recipient. Cole, himself, was the second scout in the St.

Francis Xavier troop history to receive this honor. Geoghan is the third son in the Geoghan family to earn the Eagle Award. He is presently a senior at Delone Catholic High School. LITTLESTOWN MEALS LITTLESTOWN Littlestown volunteers for Meals-on-Wheels program for Thursday through June 26 are Miriam and Dean Stover. Betty Rabenstine.

Anna Leister. Lloyd and Alma Grouse. Ruth Beford." Violet Shildt. Nadine Miller. Emma Homer.

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