Sunday Sauce and Song will benefit Youngstown Connection

YOUNGSTOWN

Spend part of Sunday afternoon helping a worthy cause, listening to wonderful music and eating good food at St. Patrick Church.

The final Sauce and Song event of the season will benefit Youngstown Connection, which is traveling to Europe this summer. Proceeds from the spaghetti dinner, which runs from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the social hall, will go toward the cost of the trip.

The Rev. Vit Fiala, a Franciscan priest and director of the Shrine of Our Lady, Comforter of the Afflicted, will perform from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the church sanctuary. In his career as a cellist, Father Fiala played with the National Opera and Chamber Players in Brno, capital of Moravia, and the Aus Symphony Orchestra in Prague, Czechoslovakia. In 1985 in Austria, he escaped communism. In 1990, he became a member of the Order of Friars Minor, the Franciscans.

The Rev. Ed Noga, pastor of St. Patrick, said the church wanted to help Youngstown Connection because “they’re good ambassadors for the Valley.”

Read more about Sunday's event, Youngstown Connection and their upcoming tri in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.