St. James Parish festival goes indoors The sun was not shining nor was the sky clear or blue, but St. James was ready to hold their annual parish festival anyway despite the steady drizzled that kept coming down on this one day that festival organizers count on to raise funds for their southside parish. Luckily, St. James has the facilities to take any activity indoor and thats just what they did. Instead of using the outside quadrangle that is typically used year after year, parish volunteers abandoned their outdoor stands and move into one of two large buildings on the parish grounds. Both Father Plutarco Belanggoy and Father Archie Tacay were present and mingled with their parishioners. The annual event saw so many people that both front and rear parking lots were filled causing many others to park for blocks around St. James Church. Many of the participants, vendors and volunteers were teenagers with an equal amount of small children. Adults were the majority and most were in the church's school gym listening to Los Trevors. So the weather did nothing to quelch the enthusiasm or lessen the success of this year's parish festival. Hopefully, it also brought much needed revenue. Photography by SouthSaToday.Com SouthSaToday.Com Published in San Antonio, Texas (210) 347-5907

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