HOLYOKE (MA)
Daily Hampshire Gazette
By SUZANNE WILSON
Staff Writer
HOLYOKE – On Thursday, at 3 p.m., Jane Pokora, 80, and her brother, Chester Kos, 83, arrived at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in Holyoke for their two-hour shift.
Bundled in coats against the cold, the pair, both residents of Chicopee, settled into two side-by-side chairs in the vestibule where space heaters have been set up.
They don’t go into the church itself, where the heat is kept low. “It’s too cold,” Pokora said.
Pokora and Kos are members of the former Mater Dolorosa parish. Now they come here once a week as part of a vigil that began last June to protest the decision by the Springfield Diocese to close the church.
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