Heart of Mary House will hold its inaugural fundraiser at 6 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 11, on the St. Edward Church and School Campus. For the last year, the ministry has provided "a safe, comfortable, peaceful home for the dying poor" to 18 residents. Abel Novoa, seen here being blessed by Bishop J. Mark Spalding on Jan. 17, 2023, as Kim Derrick, founder and director of ministry, looks on, was Heart of Mary House's longest living patient, living there for seven months before he passed away on April 30, 2023.

Debbie Stephenson is a second generation graduate of Sacred Heart School in Lawrenceburg, graduating in 1970. She follows in the steps of her mother, Anne (Gang) White, who graduated in 1945. Stephenson's three children carried on the tradition as have her 12 grandchildren, three of which are still students at the school. Stephenson, left, poses with her grandson, Avery Stephenson, a kindergartener; her grandson Braxton Stephenson, a seventh-grader; her daughter Wendi Cunningham, class of 1990; and Adalee Stephenson, a 5th-grader.

Father Andrew Bulso, pastor of St. Edward Church in Nashville, was the Chaplain of the Day for the Tennessee House of Representatives on the opening day of the 113th General Assembly. After Father Bulso led the invocation for the session, his father, Gino Bulso, was sworn in as a new State Representative.