This year, in honor of Blindness Awareness Month, officials from the City of Jersey City, together with a St. Joseph’s student ambassador and school staff members, raised a commemorative flag high over City Hall to mark the occasion.
The City also presented St. Joseph’s with a proclamation honoring the school for their dedication and service to individuals who are blind, and most importantly their founders, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, who established the school in 1891. The proclamation, signed by Mayor Steven M. Fulop, “…reaffirms the City’s strong and continuing commitment to enhancing awareness about ways to prevent, treat, and cure blindness and other serious visual impairments.”