Dear Brothers,

 

We hope you and your families had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday last weekend!

 

There are several upcoming events that we are participating in and with the extra week between meetings we wanted to pass along this update to help you plan and coordinate your participation. Here are the details of the upcoming activities:

 

1.       Our next meeting with be this Monday, December 7th. Since Tuesday, December 8th is a Holy Day of Obligation for the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, we will gather to attend the 7:00 PM vigil Mass at St. Benedict and immediately following the Mass we will hold our council meeting and food will be served.

 

2.       Our council will be helping with the St. Benedicts annual Christmas concert this Saturday - December 5, 2009 and the following brothers have volunteered to help with the hospitality after the concert including:

a.       Mark Von Plinsky

b.      Bob Zopf

c.       Bill Magyar

d.      Bruce Margine

e.      Tom Cook

f.        Lou Coroso

g.       Mike Turchin

h.      Bill O’Neal

The coordinator for the event is Heidi and we are requested to wear black pants, white long sleeve shirt and a Christmas Tie! We will need to help put tables away at approximately 7:00 PM or before the last song if your attending the concert.

 

3.       We will be having our Family Christmas Party on Sunday - December 13th, from 2:00 pm to 4:00 PM in the PLC at St. Benedict. We still need your RSVP!!! Attached is the current list of received RSVP’s. If you are not on the list and plan on attending please send an email to Mike Dawkins at to mikeandjill@mac.com  or michael.dawkins@sprint.com  to confirm your attendance.  We need to have everyone’s reply no later than December 6th . Please provide the following information with your RSVP:

 

·         If you are attending please let us know how many family members will be coming, and please specify the number of adults versus children:_______________

 

·         Of the number given above for Children, how many will be joining Santa to share their secret wishes?_____________________

 

4.       We will still be selling Christmas cards and magnets after each mass for the next two weekends. Please help out after mass you attend to help sell Christmas Cards!

 

5.       We are proceeding with the acquisition of a Ping Pong table for the rectory and will be requesting help to set up the table in the rectory once delivered.

 

6.       We have traditionally provided a small financial “gift’ to the priests each Christmas. This will need to be brought up as a motion and discussed and voted on.

 

7.        Degree Update – Here are the upcoming Degrees:

 

o   First Degree - December 14th at St. Monica’s – 7:00 PM

o   Second Degree – December 12th at All Saints – 9:00 AM (Bruce Margine and Ryan Bertrand are planning to attend)

o   Third Degree – January 23rd – at St. Monica’s - TBD

 

See you at one of these events and / or at the next meeting!

 

Vivat Jesus!

Fraternally Yours,
Rick Ooten
Deputy Grand Knight
Knights of Columbus Council #10633
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