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| | MOPREP: Restoration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | Spear headed by Missions Santa Ines, Soledad, and the Dominican Sisters (trees from Mission San Jose) and with the help from MOPREP volunteers, the missions once again harvest their olives. |
 | | In the spring of 2000, Nick Bianchi, director of Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, provided oil harvested from California’s missions to be blessed to use for Catholic sacraments, marking the first time in modern history that oil from the missions was again used in the Catholic church. |
 | | The Mission Olive Preservation, Restoration and Education Project (MOPREP) and the leadership and community of Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad shared a mutual vision that bore fruit on February 10, 2001: the first full-scale Mission Olive grove planted on Mission property since the early 1800’s. |
| www.missionolive.org /restore.html (859 words) |
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