Joe DeNardo Awards October 2008

On October 12, 2008, Abode For Children honored Joe DeNardo for his 22 years as leader of WTAE's Project Bundle Up, as well as his work for the Special Olympics. Our Parishioner, Joe DeNardo, the well known Weather Man from Pittsburgh's Channel 4 TV and Patricia Rooney, wife of Steelers chairman Dan Rooney, were founders of the Project Bundle Up. Adobe for Children, a locally based non-profit organization, helps provide for orphans in Africa and India, presented Joe with the Don Bosco Humanitarian Award. Bishop David Zubik also presented Joe a Papal Blessing from His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI to mark this special occasion. Fr. Jim Garvey and a number of other parishioners and friends attended the banquet and ceremony which was held at Churchill Country Club, Penn Hills.

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