KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS
BISHOP CLAUDE DUBUIS COUNCIL #7445
Sacred Heart Parish Richmond, Texas January 1999
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KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS BISHOP CLAUDE DUBUIS COUNCIL #7445 Sacred Heart Parish Richmond, Texas January 1999 |
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Dear Brothers and Lovely Ladies,
Happy New Year! I love January. Everyone gets a fresh start...forget your mistakes of the past and look to the future with a renewed hope and a quiet confidence that God will see you through whatever challenges come your way.
Pull
your chin straps tight because we have a BUSY January. Our regular
council meeting is Jan. 12 and I feel certain Bubba will start the new
year with a BANG!?! Vocations week is Jan. 10-16. Do you think
we can squeeze in a pancake and sausage breakfast on Jan. 17? Proceeds
will go for the support of 1 or 2 seminarians. We'll discuss this
at the meeting. Yes it's once again time for LADIES NIGHT.
The big evening is set for Jan. 23. Encourage your bride and/or girlfriend
(not both) to attend as the food and entertainment will be first rate.
Jan. 29 is the 15th Annual Clergy Night at Council 8960 in Pearland.
We are considering sponsoring a table for $100 that will allow seating
for 8 people. If you and your spouse wish to attend, the cost is
$15 per person for cocktails and dinner. Bring your check made out
to "Galveston Houston Chapter" to the meeting. There will be no tickets
available at the door and deadline for tickets is Jan 15. Church
director, J C Girouard will fill us in on the details at the meeting. Our
1st Super Bowl BBQ is scheduled for January 31 with all 3 BBQ teams joining
in for the FUN.
Anyone
else who would like to join us is most welcome. Bubba will fill us
in at the meeting Jan 12.
Congratulations
go out to Steve Nestlerode, Vince Fennesy, and Bill Willis who joined our
Council Dec 7. These 3 new brother knights attended the first degree
in Sugar Land. Also please welcome Dr. Michael
Bishop
who reactivated his membership in our council. We look forward to
working with these men and pray their membership will be fruitful and filled
with many pleasant memories.
I want to thank all of you for all your hard work and support the past 6 months. Words cannot express how much Dana and I appreciate all your efforts on behalf of our Church and Parish Family. Please keep Fr. Eric in your prayers as he begins his studies and may God bless you and yours with a safe, healthy, prosperous New Year.
Live
life to the fullest,
Michael
Cutbirth
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UPCOMING EVENTS
January
Tuesday,
12 Regular Meeting
Tuesday,
19 Director’s Meeting
Friday,
22
March for Life in Washington, D.C. (26th Anniversary of Roe
vs Wade)
Saturday,
23 Ladies’ Night
Sunday,
24 "Say It
With Roses!" for preborn brothers and sisters
Free Throw Contest
Tuesday,
26 Officer’s Meeting
Friday,
29
Clergy Appreciation Night
Sunday,
31 B-B-Q, Teams
A, B, and C
Corporate Communion
Newsletter Input Due
February
Tuesday,
9 Regular Meeting
Tuesday,
16 Director’s Meeting
Sunday,
21 Youth Challenge
Tuesday,
23 Pancake Supper
NEXT
MEETING
A
little enlightenment on the Y2K problem.
BLOOD
DRIVE
We
can be very proud of our blood drive that was held on December 12 and 13.
We had the most blood donors ever since the first blood drive back in 1979!
There were 61 whole blood, 7 double red cell, 9 plasma and 4 platelet donations.
We will get credit for 88 because the double red cell donation count as
2 credits each. Thank you Mike Cutbirth and all the volunteers for
organizing this drive.
THE
CHRISTMAS PARTY
About
seventy Knights, friends, relatives and guests enjoyed an evening of merry-making,
mirth and music at the Annual KC Christmas Party on December 12th.
As usual the purpose was to help others more needy then ourselves at the
joyous time of giving. Penny Robichaux, founder of The Garden, was
our guest. The response to her request for help for The Garden was excellent.
Grand Knight, Mike Cutbirth, presented her with $1,072 for the home, plus
many presents and all the cards for the children. Penny wrote and
thanked us for our kindness to her and to "our precious Garden".
Every morsel of the delicious food, prepared by Bryan Meyer and brought
by all the Brothers and their Ladies, vanished before Santa Claus came
with gifts for the children at the party. Thank you Roy Cerrillo.
And thank you Bryan and all who prepared the food. A little, light,
musical, Christmas entertainment was given by the shepherds from Bethlehem
and Archangel Gabriel who brought us to the birth of Christ. Thank you
carolers Hugh Burton, Greg Waleke, Mark Chapman, Gary Graske, drummer Glenn
Blaizer, guitarist Mark Stryk, lighting technician Glenn Nohavitza and
dance instructor Paul Metcalf. And thank you to those who brought
all the needed supplies, and to Greg and Jean Waleke and Tim and Vickie
Moncure for all the great decorations, and especially to Mike McConnell
for all the setting up and cleaning up.
KNIGHT
OF THE MONTH
It
sometimes seems to be a battle against all odds to put on an event.
We can blame El Nino for many things, especially the floods we had recently.
That made the efforts of Tom Petrosewicz all the more noteworthy having
to do the whole thing over and over again. It was our Annual Golf
Tournament that was put off yet again. Flooded, mudded golf courses are
not open even to charity events. We therefore awarded Tom as the
Knight of the Month for his gallantry, persistence, and good humor in his
ongoing trials, and to persuade him to hang in there till April.
CORPORATE
COMMUNION
Since
this month has five Sundays we will be having our Corporate Communion on
January 31, 1999 during 9:30 Mass. Following Mass we will meet at
JJ’s for breakfast.
YOUTH
ACTIVITIES
Breakfast
with Santa was successfully held on Saturday, December 5. Thanks to Mike
McConnell for leading this activity sponsored by our middle school students.
FREE
MONEY! FREE MONEY! FREE MONEY! (For college-bound high school seniors)
If
you have college-bound children, Jim Mensay and John Boyles are working
to get them information on what scholarships the KCs have to offer. A letter
will be mailed to all juniors and seniors in early January with the necessary
information. Also, John and Jim are working on tours of the campuses of
St. Thomas and Texas A&M for any college-bound kids. Thanks to Jim
and John for coordinating this important activity!
John Gillespie is coordinating the annual free throw contest to be held on Sunday, January 24 from 1-4PM. This year the event will be held in our own facility. John will need volunteers to help so please call him at 238-0211 or we can sign you up at the next meeting.
We
need 6-10 Knights to challenge the Teen Life youth to a volleyball match
in our gym in mid February. Sign up sheets will be available at the next
meeting. We need YOU to defend our winning streak, started in October with
our superbly played softball game.
SERVICE
HOURS
In
January each year, when we get our notice to pay our dues, we are also
asked to list the volunteer hours we have done in community services.
These statistics help the Knights of Columbus retain their tax free status,
they show to the rest of the Knights that we are not standing idly by,
and they tell the rest of the world that the Knights is the best charitable
organization to join or support. The figures are printed in the Columbia
magazine. Please think now of the number of visits you have made
in 1998 to the sick or bereaved, number of times a blood donor, and the
hours you have put into Church related activities, community, youth or
other related services, and hours put into service to members and their
families. Think of Little League or YMCA coaching, Prison Ministry,
Scouting, CCE, Pee Wee Football, ministries to the sick, homeless, old
or poor, church ministries. You know what you do, please let us tell
the world what you do. Please be ready in January to complete the
Annual survey. Thanks.
PARISH
WORK DAY
The
golf tournament got rained out and so did the parish work day. But
it hasn’t been forgotten. The date has not yet been determined but
when it is we all need to pitch in and help.
GOLF
TOURNAMENT
The
golf tournament will be held in the spring. The beneficiary
for the tournament is the Andy Oldmixon Benefit Fund, a fellow Knight.
We now have plenty of time to get out the sponsors and golfers.
For information or to sponsor call Tom Petrosewicz 342-6584 (day) or 341-1553
(evenings).
WEDDING
ANNIVERSARIES IN JANUARY
Brother
Eric and Charlene Berlin
Brother Louis and Heidi Fredrickson (5 years)
Brother
Daniel and Bonnie Gerken Brother Allen and Susan
Hartmann (30 years)
Brother
Harvey and Gloria Horelica Brother Richard and Margaret
Oldmixon
BROTHERS AND WIVES WITH BIRTHDAYS IN JANUARY
Darlene
(Brother Robert) Bauhs
Cindy (Brother Rick) Bilski
Marilyn
(Brother Alvin) Brazda
Brother John and Theodora Healey
Gloria
(Brother Harvey) Horelica
Brother Julius Jochec
Gail
(Brother William) Keyser
Pauline (Brother Werner) Klesel
Elvira
(Brother Marvin) Kuhn
Brother Charles Mertz
Brother
Alois and Ann Muehr
Brother Ray Pargac
Brother
Frank Petras
Brother Thomas Petrosewicz
Carla
(Brother Greg) Pitts
Brother Eduardo Rios
Karen
(Brother Bobby) Slavinski
Brother Johnnie Sullivan
Wallie
(Brother Tony) Trevino
Jean (Brother Gregory) Waleke
Lois
(Brother Leonard) Wetzel
EDITOR’S
NOTE
You
probably noticed the picture of a rose and the Capitol on the first page.
The beautiful "red rose", symbol of short life and martyrdom, has
now been established by the March for Life as the prolife symbol in America.
The "red rose" has done powerful work for the whole movement. It
is "the" education tool for the annual January 22 prolife activities in
Washington, DC.
Prayers are very important to all of us. Many times when we are faced with a difficulty or hardship we need the prayers of others. These prayer requests can be published in this newsletter. Send them to me by e-mail (rain62467 @aol.com), phone (281-238-0996), or mail (2127 Morton League Rd., Richmond, TX 77469). They should arrive before the newsletter input date.
To
allow adequate time for the newsletter to be word processed, proofread,
copied, folded, stapled, addressed and mailed before the regular monthly
meeting, input is needed 10 days before the meeting date. The following
are the input dates for the rest of the year. Please post these somewhere
as a reminder.
Month
Due Date
February
January 31
March
February 28
April
April 4
May
May 2
June
May 30
July
July 4
August
August 1
September September 5
October
October 3
November November 31
December December
5
This
newsletter is printed for internal use of the Knights of Columbus by
the
Newsletter Editor, Ray Ireland, of Council 7445. Copies may be obtained
on
request
by writing to: Newsletter Editor, P.O. Box 688, Richmond, Texas 77406-0668.
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