Dear Brothers,
We had an excellent turn out for our meeting on Monday night
held at the American Legion Post 251 in Duluth. We has 32 brothers in
attendance and several honored guests including our past District Deputy and
now State Community Director Stan Rapciewicz, 4 past Grand Knights of our Council
and several recent 1st Degree Knight of which this was their first
meeting!
Here are the notes from our meeting on Monday:
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Meeting opened at 7:15 PM by GK
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GK offered thanks to all brother Knights who are helping to sell
Christmas Cards after mass. It was mentioned that we need to make a special
effort to support the Sunday Evening Hispanic Mass with Christmas Card sales as
well.
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GK offered thanks to Ken Brooks for coordinating the Memorial
Service last Monday night.
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Form 100’s Read and Voted On:
o Christopher
Papa
o Michael
Kelly
o Deacon
Ronald Carr
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Upcoming Degrees:
o First
and Second Degree – November 18th at Council 660 –
Buford Highway
o First
Degree - December 14th at St. Monica’s – 7:00 PM
o Second
Degree – December 12th at All Saints – 9:00 AM
o Third
Degree – January 23rd – at St. Monica’s - TBD
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A thank you card was read from Southern Catholic for our
donation to support the family of the Knight who recently passed away
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On Wednesday, November 18th Angelo received a
phone call from Staff Sergeant Thomas Eddy thanking the council for the
donation of goods and cash to help defray some of the shipping costs to
Afghanistan. Sgt. Eddy would like to thank the council and is coming home for
the Thanksgiving holidays so I setup the 8:45 mass on November 29th to
stop and shake his hand and give him an opportunity to say thank you. So mark
your planners to try to attend 8:45 mass on Nov 29th.
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Congratulations was offered to the 5 members who attended the 4th
Degree Exemplification - Patriotism - on Saturday, November 7th!
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Congratulations was offered to Jamieson Cannata who became a
full member of the Knights of Columbus in the Third Degree at the
exemplification in Conyers recently!
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Our Knights will be helping with the St. Benedicts annual
Christmas concert on Saturday - December 5, 2009 and 5 – 6 brothers
volunteered to help with the hospitality after the concert including:
o Mark
Von Plinsky
o Bob
Zopf
o Bill
Magyar
o Bruce
Margine
o Tom
Cook
o Lou
Coroso
o Mike
Turchin
o Bill
O’Neal
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Stan Rapciewicz provided information on a Special Olympics /
Camp Inspire Gala to be held on February 12th, 2010. More
information coming – Angelo is coordinating
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Father Paul has asked for help in setting up the Christmas trees
for the church. Jamieson Cannata, Ryan Bertrand and Tim Place volunteered to
help and will be contacting our building maintenance engineer Catfish in the
next few days – target set days are Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday of next
week.
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Angelo is driving a meeting this Thursday night with all of the
ministry leaders of the parish to plan and confirm the financial support needed
by each ministry for the Parish Family Center under construction.
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Mike Turchin reported on car raffle project and details being
finalized
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Our coordination with St Monica’s regarding working the
concession stand at UGA home games was discussed and the importance of meeting
our commitments. We are again providing support for this Saturdays game and
have several members signed up. If you have questions or would like to help
please contact Mike Turchin at mturchin@bellsouth.net.
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Four of our council’s past Grand Knights we honored with a
plaque for their support and leadership. These include Joe Noa, Ken Brooke, Bob
Dukes and Patrick Gannon. Thank you for your dedication!
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Our Financial Secretary, Lou Coroso confirmed that the annual
dues statements for 2010 will be ready to send electronically in the next few
days. Please look for an upcoming email with a form attached which will allow
brothers to complete the form and pay their dues by turning this into the K of
C mailbox at the church or by bringing to a meeting. This will save our council
postage and processing time. For those brothers who don’t take advantage
of this new option, regular dues statements will be sent out following the
email process.
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We will hold our Annual Council Christmas Party in the PLC on
Sunday December 13th, from 2 – 4 PM. Santa Clause will be
arriving to see the little ones so please mark your calendars and RSVP to Mike
Dawkins at mikeandjill@mac.com.
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Meeting closed at 8:15 by GK – Everyone retreated to
the American Legion Post bar and a good time was had by all!!!
Vivat Jesus!
Fraternally Yours,
Rick Ooten
Deputy Grand Knight
Knights of Columbus Council #10633
(678) 777-7128 Cell
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