Mark your calendars for the Woodshop’s annual Christmas sales!

From 11 am to 4 pm on November 23, we’ll partner with the Finger Lakes Wood Turners (FLWT), the Rochester Woodworkers Society (RWS), and the Sisters of Mercy on Blossom Road, to present hand-crafted items for sale to the public. Our accomplished FLWT and RWS Mentors will contribute their work to the sale, and our students’ work will include toys, trivets, cheeseboards, puzzles, gumball machines, wood-turned pens, 3D printed Christmas ornaments, bedside cabinets, kitchen items, and more. The location of this sale will be in the Middle School gym at Mercy High School—a large, open space, ideal for the event. “St. Michael’s Woodshop is very dear to my heart,” says Woodshop
Advisory Board member Sister Nancy Whitley. “My close friend and classmate Sister Pat Flynn began this ministry in 1967 to help teenage boys and girls become responsible and learn a marketable skill. Over the years, these young people, through their affiliation with the Woodshop, have kept off
the streets, grown in character, graduated from high school, obtained good-paying jobs, and become real assets to each other and to the local community. Sister Pat has gone to the Lord, but James Smith has taken over as Woodshop Director, and he is continuing her mission with great success. I am very
familiar with Our Lady of Mercy High School and its administration (Sr. Whitley is a graduate herself, and taught at the school for 13 years). Knowing that this gym, accessible to older and/or handicapped patrons, would enable all to conveniently attend and purchase items at the sale, I asked for the use of it, at no charge to the Woodshop. We are excited to advertise this event to students, parents, neighbors, friends, and the wider public.” Many of the items available at the sale will be professional-quality pieces made by our RSW and FLWT Mentors. In addition,  our own student-made work will be available at the sale.
Please pass the word to your family and friends!
For more information about the sale or the Woodshop, call James Smith at 585–267–0210.
We look forward to meeting you at this sale or our other three holiday
sales (see below). 

         Here are all four Locations

         for our 2024 Holiday Sales:
1.) Saturday, November 23, 11 am to 4 pm
   Our Lady of Mercy School for Young           Women, 1437 Blossom Rd, Rochester 14610

2.) Friday, December 6, from 7 pm to 10 pm
     “Glimmers of Love” Christmas sale 
      Parish of the Holy Family 
      4100 Lyell Road, Rochester 14606

3.) Sat. and Sun., December 7 and 8, after         Mass on both days, St. Mary's Church,

     15 St. Mary's Place, Rochester 14607

 

4.) Saturday December 14 , 11am to 4 pm, & 

     Sunday December 15, 11 am to 3 pm

     School of the Holy Childhood,

     100 Groton Parkway, Henrietta