Standing up for the unborn: Catholic parishes were well represented at the ninth annual Greater Williamsburg Life Chain, Sunday afternoon Oct. 3, on the sidewalk facing Richmond Road starting at Centerville Road. Life Chain is a prayer chain and public witness against abortion. Participating parishes included St. Joan of Arc, Yorktown; St. Elizabeth, Quinton; and the Williamsburg parishes of Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament, Ascension of Our Lord Byzantine Catholic Church, St. Bede and St. Olaf. The St. Olaf Respect Life Ministry and St. Bede Friends for Life Ministry organized the event.
Good people doing a good thing: Members of Knights of Columbus Council 11984 at St. Stephen, Martyr, Chesapeake, recently built a wheelchair ramp for a disabled Navy retiree. Retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Ed Farrel, a Knight from St. James Council 11541 in Gulfport, Mississippi, reached out to Council 11984 and asked them to build the ramp for his long-time friend, retired Navy Chief Ray Reardon.