Entitled, “At 90, Catholic sister can still ‘move mountains’ for residents in Metro East town,” Colleen Schrappen’s feature in today’s Post-Dispatch spotlights Sister Julia Huiskamp’s life as a social worker including her many years of ministry in the Metro East. Ninety years old, Sister Julia describes joining the Daughters of Charity when Eisenhower was president. Sister Julia’s ministry at the Thomas Terry Community Center in Brooklyn, IL, where she oversees childcare, a food pantry, and assistance, is highlighted. So, too, her many years of oversight of the Griffin Center in East St. Louis. A Keokuk, Iowa, native, Sister Julia shares that her call to the community stemmed from an increasing concern for the poor. Sister Julia concluded her interview with these words, “You just plug along and do what you can do.”
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