Walsh fish fry fundraiser

Walsh University’s Office of Residence Life will sponsor its annual fish fry Benefit Dinner Feb. 19 in the Francoeur Conference Center from 4 to 7:30 p.m.

Cost is $5 for children, $10 for adults. Menu options include the choice of fish or spaghetti, French fries or baked potato, applesauce or coleslaw, and a dinner roll. A meal “to go” option is also available. Raffle prizes, including gift baskets and gift certificates, will be given away.

Contact Mike Cinson at mcinson@walsh.edu or (330) 490-7107 for more information or to purchase tickets.

Each spring the Office of Residence Life organizes a fish fry to benefit an individual in the Walsh community. This year's event benefits the Sisters of Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration in Arizona. The Poor Clares are a cloistered community of nuns with ties to Canton through the Santa Clair Monastery and the well-known Mother Angelica, Founder of EWTN (Eternal World Television Network). In July 2008, former Walsh University Director of Campus Ministry Michele Schafer left Walsh to join the Poor Clares religious order.

Proceeds will help to fund the building of Our Lady of Solitude Monastery in Tonopah, which will be the first PCPA Monastery in the Western United States. Slated for completion in September, the chapel will not only serve as the sole place of prayer and adoration for the Poor Clare nuns, it also will be open to the public for adoration, daily mass, confession and retreats.