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April 4, 2011

Rev. Walter Packard takes over reins of two local Catholic churches

A priest from Fairview, near Erie, has been appointed to lead two local Catholic churches, St. Francis of Assisi and Our Mother of Perpetual Help in Lewis Run.

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