About Ordinary Folks Who Said We Can

Thirty-five years of caring: F.O.R. Celebrities Focus on Renewal an incorporated neighborhood development center celebrates more than thirty-five years of service and commitment to the people of Stowe-McKees Rocks. Under the late John Cardinal Wright the center opened its main street storefront doors in 1969 with little else than $3000 a month budget and the charismatic volunteer leadership of its co-founders the Rev Donald C. Fisher diocesan clergy and Sr. Paulette Honeygosky vincentian sister of charity. Before Bishop Vincent M. Leonard retired in 1983 the center was operating with its own self-sustaining and incorporated Neighborhood Family Health Center Credit Union Transportation for the Handicapped Service and a Town Meeting style of self-government. The Center returned its $3000 monthly budget to the diocese in 1983 with a wish that it be given to a neighborhood more needy than us to help it get started. In 1979 Fr. Fisher relocated to work in Africa. In 1984 Sr. Paulette went to the Jesuit National Education Office in Washington D.C. But the work of the center well-grounded in the gospel and well-founded in corporate and organization structure continued on under the leadership of diocesan clergyman Rev. Regis Ryan and The Sisters of St. Joseph. This is the McKees Rocko Pennsylvania story About Ordinary Folks Who Said We Can't And They Did.