Gratitude: Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA recently thanked Bishop Barry C. Knestout and the faithful of the Diocese of Richmond for their $51,570.58 contribution to the national collection that, among other things, supports priests serving as military chaplains.
Honored: Lydia Madelyn Stumpf and Melania Elaine Lambert, students at St. Bridget School, Richmond, have each received a $1,000 scholarship from the St. Bridget Knights of Columbus Council 5476 to attend a Catholic high school. They will be attending Saint Gertrude High School this fall.
State’s best: Having already earned first place in the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Court of the Redeemer’s Angels #2456’s and the CDA’s state art and music contests, respectively, the work of Mercy Grapes and Julia Jacobs, students at St. Mary School, Richmond, has qualified for national competition.
Other Court of the Redeemer’s Angels #2456 winners who qualified for state were Caleb Tan, poetry; Cazin School and Timothy Dowdy, essay; Katie Brown, poetry; and Savannah Edge, art. All are St. Mary School students.
Error on the sports editor: In the May 31 What We’ve Heard, it said that Benedictine College Prep won its second consecutive VISAA Division I state baseball championship. That they did, but they defeated St. Christopher’s — not St. Catherine’s as reported — 8-7.