February Newsletter - Knights of Columbus Council 5436
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February Newsletter - Knights of Columbus Council 5436
Knights of Columbus Volume 18 Issue 8 Kevin Wisely Grand Knight [email protected] 248-623-9739 Fr. Chris Maus Chaplain [email protected] 248-625-4580 Geoff Wright Deputy Grand Knight [email protected] 248-760-6855 Robert Reinelt Chancellor 248-625-4052 Thomas Farrell Warden [email protected] 248-766-4156 Bill Johnson Financial Secretary [email protected] 248-202-6204 Dar Balcom Treasure [email protected] 810-869-5637 Todd Jenkinson Recording Secretary [email protected] Jack Will Advocate [email protected] 248-969-2286 Fred Baumgartner Trustee, 3rd year 248-625-5935 Dan Fuller Trustee, 2nd year 248-394-1034 Len Wasilk Trustee, 1st year 248-620-3763 Gerry Gebrowsky Lector 248-922-3522 Joe Brenner Guard 248-681-0319 Victor Negrette Guard 248-812-2204 Cliff Holmyard Guard [email protected] 248-701-8711 Pope John XXIII Council #5436 www.clarkstonkofc.org February 2012 Super Bowl Party & Big Screen TV Raffle February 5th Doors Open @ 1PM Raffle tickets are $2 each or 3 tix for $5 Pancakes for Priests @ OLL February 12th After the 8AM, 9:30AM & 11AM Masses Poker for Priests Project Columbiere Center February 25th @ 6:30PM VEGAS NIGHT 7PM MARCH 3RD YOUTH PROGRAM, AGES 10 TO 18 Squires and Knight’s Daughters meet on the first Tuesday of the month at 6:00PM. Wednesdays @ 6PM Fridays @ 5:30PM Bill Methner Building Manager 248-625-3772 Call for rental information Merrill Charbonneau Building Corporation Pres. 248-625-3578 Brent Michelson Fundraiser Committee Chr. 248-625-6074 Fred Devendorf Bingo Chairman 248-2845 Vince Belevender Bartender Manager, Council Program Director 248-625-6204 Vince Belevender Cook Team Mgr. 248-625-6204 Kara Fuller Ladies Aux. President [email protected] 248-394-1034 Chris Chaffee Squire Master 586-764-4321 Chris Chaffee Knight’s Daughters Program 586-764-4321 Dan Fuller Newsletter Publisher Community Director [email protected] 248-394-1034 Kevin Wisely Parish Roundtable, OLL [email protected] 248-623-9739 Robert Reinelt Parish Roundtable, St. Dan’s 248-625-4052 Peter Riccardo District Deputy Membership Director [email protected] 248-202-4903 Gary Lieber Insurance Agent [email protected] 248-673-4142 Grand Knight Article We had the Auto Show Coat Check fundraiser event in January and it certainly was a lot of work. It is so gratifying to see that so many brothers, wives and family members were willing to step forward to help the council with this major fundraiser. Many of these kind folks worked several days at the auto show. We will be getting an accounting of what our cut of the proceeds from the fundraiser was in the near future and we will also thank the volunteers by name. But for now, please know your efforts are greatly appreciated. February brings the end of football season and means it is time for our annual Super Bowl Party. The Super Bowl Party will be taking place in our member’s lounge starting at 2PM on Sunday, February 5th. There will be great food, fun and football. We will also be raffling off a big screen TV, so stop on by and enjoy the day. We would also like to thank Jerry Nowakowski for volunteering and bartending on Sunday’s during this past football season. This gave us a great opportunity for some Fraternity, one of our guiding principles. This proved to be quite popular and quite a few brothers stopped in to watch our much-improved Detroit Lions and spend some time with our friends. We will also be having a St. Patrick’s Day Party on Saturday, March 17th, which is always a good time. There are a few big events coming up in March as well. On March 3rd we will have another Vegas Night. On the last weekend in March, we will have our annual Tootsie Roll Drive to raise funds for mentally handicapped youth in our community. The Tootsie Roll drive is our leading community outreach project and last year we raised over $18,000 that was donated to non-profits in our community. We will be counting on your help and involvement to once again make a significant difference in our community. GK message continued: St. Daniel Parish Roundtable Report Time and time again, we see brothers and wives step forward to give generously of themselves to help their council, the churches we serve and our communities. This helps us build new friendships and better our world and carry on the proud tradition of service the Knights of Columbus are known for worldwide. On Sunday February 5, 2011 we will be having a NEW MEMBER DRIVE at St. Daniels. If you know any Catholic men who believe in the importance of investing time in the Catholic Church, friendship, helping others, please encourage them to join the Knights of Columbus. Vivat Jesus, Kevin Wisely Grand Knight Note from the Building Corporation: The Building Corporation has interviewed a handful of real estate brokers to handle the listing of our Knights of Columbus Council Hall for sale. We reported in the December newsletter that after long and deliberate review we have come to the conclusion that with declining council revenues we can no longer afford to run our Council Hall. After reviewing a handful of proposals from brokers, we have listed our hall for sale with Signature Associates. The Building Corporation will continue to run Bingo, rent the hall for events such as weddings and to run Fish Fry Dinners to keep revenue coming in. We will continue to pay necessary expenses to keep the building running. Anyone interested in finding out what is going on with this is welcome to attend our Building Corporation meetings. These take place at 6PM on the first Thursday of each month. After each mass there will be coffee and donuts in the Cushing Center, all are invited. Brother Knights will be in the Cushing Center after all masses to answer questions and accept applications for membership. If you would like more information prior to February 5, please contact Bob Reinelt at 248-933-9179. Bob Reinelt - Chancellor & RoundTable Coordinator March 3rd K of C Irish Pub opens at 5 P.M. Corned Beef & Cabbage will be served at 6:30PM Tommy O’Farrell’s Band begins at 7:00PM We won’t be stealing your fortune, cost is only $10 each! Join us for a fine Irish dinner, good Irish cheer, and a good bit of blarney with Irish toasts and songs Get your tickets from Danny-Boy 248-394-1034 Fish Fry Teams Cook Teams—Mike Pagano 248-464-1788 Team 1 Balcom, Kerr, Butts, Zubalick Team 2 Roberts, Carpenter, Wasker, Baumgartner Team 3 Fuller, Will, Bugai, Michelson Team 4 Belevender, Farrell, Luna, Jackson Team 5 Methner, Mountian, Flynn, Michelson Team 1 Roberts Team 2 Gates Team 3 Belevender Team 4 Nowakowski Team 5 Christina Poker for Priests at Colombiere Financial Hardship? Any member facing financial hardships and having difficulty paying dues may contact our council’s Financial Secretary Bill Johnson or Grand Knight Kevin Wisely. Special consideration is given to any member that is unable afford dues, if they contact the council. These matters are handled confidentially. March 17th Clarkston K of C – Founder’s Room Bartender Teams—Vince Belevender 248-625-4052 K of C Council 5436 Building Corporation Can’t Pay Your Dues? St. Patty’s Party March 3rd Our Next Poker for Priests will be held on Wednesday, February 25th. Our Council hosts a card party for the retired priests and brothers at Colombiere Center in Clarkston. We deal blackjack and poker and it has become a popular event for the retired priests and brothers. If you would like to help with this project in the future, please let me know. You will leave there uplifted. Normally, the card games last about an hour and a half and run from 6PM to 7:30PM. If you arrive a bit earlier, they will feed you too. Cliff Holmyard, [email protected] or 248--701--8711. Thank you to Clff Holmyard, Jim Longbucco and Rick Wolfe for manning this project on December 28th. Knight of the Month, First Name Last Name Birth Date YRS SVC JAMES AUDETTE 1st 57 Family of the Month, THOMAS HUNTER 1st 45 ANTHONY THOMAS BOGEDIN BRAZIER 2nd 3rd 17 42 PATRICK TOOHEY 3rd 34 DENNIS SLAYTON 3rd 5 Jack Will Scott & Pauline Mallory Congratulations! Thank you for your efforts. MICHAEL PACKARD 3rd 8 STEPHEN PAWLAK JR 3rd 17 Good of the order: MARC HUFFMAN 6th 6 MARK MORELL 6th 6 Brothers and families that need work ALLAN KNAKE 7th 32 John Alfes REV. MATHEW CREIGHTON 8th 1 Mary Alfes JOSEPH MC GEE 9th 48 Rayna Auger STEVEN COOPER 9th 2 FREDRICK BAUMANN 10th 20 Loraine Baranyai MARK GENO 10th 42 Lorraine Bubnik Brenden Caarniecki Stuart Daniel JOSEPH LUGINSKI 10th 24 JOACHIM KUPE 11th 12 CHARLES PIERCE JR 11th 16 THEODORE GINN 13th 25 Mike Donnellon Sr JOSHUA DUTTON 13th 6 Harold Ford Gabrielle Flemming WALTER TIM CEMPURA DONOHUE 14th 15th 3 4 Dee Hall JOHN KERR 16th 8 KEVIN KELCO 16th 4 Dick Hall JOHN SCHMIDT 17th 11 Lou Henderson William Reinelt ALBIN BUGAI 18th 6 Mike Johnson Ellen Seeterlin JOHN WHITE 18th 1 Kathy Lewis PAUL GEKIERE 18th 1 John Shiff JOSEPH METHNER 19th 36 Bruno Marriccini Traci Wightman CHRISTOPHER CYR 19th 1 DONALD JASURDA 20th 2 James McKneely Pat Wilson Anthony Miloastan Joan Wisely Holly Moss Jack Monohon RIP Claudia Negrete Matt Moulturp RIP Victor Negrette John LeForge RIP Brenden O'Donnell Angela Springer RIP Bernice Pagano Tran Nyugen RIP Mike Pagano Sr Cathleen Myers RIP Sal Reale Rev. Glenn Williams SJ RIP E-mail notices: In the future I would like to be able to contact you about council matters such as events, funeral notices and newsletter delivery for those who prefer that option. My promise to you is I will not send you jokes, cartoons or solicitations with either my personal email [email protected] or my KOFC e-mail address [email protected] so if you would free me from your e-mail spam list, I would appreciate it. Kevin Wisely, GK JAMES BRUSO 21st 4 GERALD KREINER 21st 2 GERARD KREINER 21st 2 FRED BAUMGARTNER 22nd 12 ARTHUR LILIENTHAL 22nd 11 LEONARD METHNER 22nd 36 BRENT MICHELSEN 23rd 9 GERALD ROBERTS JR 23rd 38 DEAN SCHULTZ 23rd 28 JOHN LUTZ 24th 27 GREGORY NOLAN 24th 8 DARWIN BALCOM 25th 28 GARY LIEBER 26th 17 LARRY HEARN 26th 9 DONALD DUGAL 27th 29 DAVID JACKSON 27th 1 LANCE SIEMEN 27th 8 MERRILL CHARBONEAU 28th 19 JIM LONGBUCCO 28th 4 BRADLEY BAKER 29th 4 Ladies Auxiliary – February 2012 Greetings! It is the month of love, as well as the Superbowl (coincidence? I don’t think so!) The Ladies Auxiliary got some love from Home Instead Senior Care, who presented us with a plaque noting our participation in the Be a Santa to a Senior program, which is run by our own Nancy Wasilk! This past Christmas was the second year we volunteered our time to help wrap gifts for seniors in our community. It is always a fun time and a great opportunity to provide a much appreciated service in our community. The award will be shared with our Auxiliary members at our next meeting on Monday, March 12th beginning at 6 p.m. with refreshments and fellowship, followed by the business meeting at 7 p.m. At the Mid-Year Membership Meeting in Lansing, the State Officers’ Wives reported that 3400 sweatshirts, 900 bath baskets, 31 sets of twin bed sheets, 700 hats, scarves, and mittens, and $5000 in cash and gift cards were brought by Knights of Columbus members from around the state for Christmas gifts for the boys and girls of Holy Cross Children’s Serivces. Council #5436 should be proud of its contributions, as we sent at least 18 sheet sets, 20 bath baskets and a good number of sweatshirts. Brother Francis is very humbled by the generosity of the Knights and is extremely thankful for our contributions, as are the kids of HCCS. At the summer meeting at Mackinac Island, we will again be contributing a donation of a gift basket for a raffle that raises money for HCCS. The money that is collected is then matched by a corporate sponsor. Usually the Knights are able to raise over $20,000 for HCCS from this raffle. If anyone has ideas for a raffle basket theme, please share them at our next Ladies Auxiliary meeting or call me! A group of our ladies and friends attended a performance of Nunset Boulevard on January 29th at Meadowbrook Theatre in late January and loved it! It was a hilarious show! Make sure to join us for our next planned outing (still in the works)… The Auxiliary decided to share some love with the St. Vincent DePaul Society at both Our Lady of the Lakes and St. Daniel’s parishes. Ladies Auxiliary -continued The $460 we raised at our Christmas dinner/auction will be divided between the two so they can help those in our community who are in dire need of assistance. If you have Christmas, birthday, thank you, or any other type of greeting cards that you no longer need, the Ladies Auxiliary is collecting them for Kids’ Corp., a program for the children at St. Jude’s Ranch to learn entrepreneurship skills. The children participate in making the new cards by removing the front and attaching a new back. The result is a beautiful new card made by the children and volunteers. The benefits are two-fold: customers receive “green” holiday cards for use and the children receive payment for their work and learn the benefits and importance of “going green”. There is a box in the Delaney Parish Center at Our Lady of the Lakes labeled “Cards for St. Jude” for donations of your used cards. They will be collected until mid-February. (The following shameless plug/information is provided for those who ask me when my next music gig is…so here it is! Yes, yours truly will be playing violin in this performance.) Love music? The Oakland Symphony Orchestra will have a concert at Oakland University’s Varner Recital Hall at 3 p.m. February 12th. Tickets are $20 each ($10 for students) and are available at the door. This concert showcases the winners of the 15th David Daniels Young Artists Concerto competition at the university. The program includes a piano concerto by Poulenc, and a euphonium concerto by Wilby, as well as works by Mussorgsky/Ravel and Theofanides. Come see the show and expand your artistic horizons! Time is running out to sell the Knights of Columbus MI State Raffle tickets. The drawing is in March! Big prizes…lots of prizes! If you haven’t yet bought a ticket, please consider doing so soon. Remember, each $5 ticket sold by our council gives a return of $1 to us. If you need a ticket, let me know; I have plenty! I will also have them for sale at Friday night fish fry and at the pancake breakfast at Lakes on Feb. 12th. “Forget love…I’d rather fall in chocolate.”—Unknown Kara Fuller, President HELP WANTED/NEEDED: Ladies (and gentlemen, too), we need your help. If we cannot get more assistance in the kitchen with bingo, we may need to stop providing hot food service at bingo altogether. If you can help, call Hope Alesi at 248-625-6151. You do not need to be a member of the Auxiliary to help at bingo. We will teach you what to do and you will work with an experienced team member. Thank you for your support of the Knights. Mon 26 25 4th Deg Officers Mtg. 6PM 4th Deg Members Mtg. 7PM 19 Tue Squires & Daughters Meeting @6PM 6PM Bingo Team #1 OFFICERS Kitchen—Kisell 7PM Card Night 29 25 6PM Bingo Team #4 Pearce Kitchen—Flynn 7PM Card Night ASH WEDNESDAY 15 6PM Bingo Team #3 Charboneau Kitchen—Kisell 7PM Card Night 6PM Bingo Team #2 Haines Kitchen—Aliesi 7PM Card Night 8 1 6PM Bingo Team #1 OFFICERS Kitchen—Flynn 7PM Card Night Wed 23 16 9 Membership Mtg 7PM Officers Mtg Building Corp Mtg 6:30PM 2 Thu 27 20 Rosary & Adoration at OLL 7PM Squires & Daughters Meeting @6PM 13 6 Tue 6PM Bingo Team #1 OFFICERS Kitchen—Kisell 7PM Card Night 28 6PM Bingo Team #4 Pearce Kitchen—Flynn 7PM Card Night 21 6PM Bingo Team #3 Charboneau Kitchen—Kisell 7PM Card Night 14 6PM Bingo Team #2 Haines Kitchen—Aliesi 7PM Card Night 7 Wed 29 Happy 130th Founder’s Day 22 15 Fish Fry #2 Membership Mtg 7PM Light Supper at 6PM TOOTSIE ROLL DRIVE Bar Team #5 Fish Fry #5 30 Bar Team #4 Fish Fry #4 23 Bar Team #3 Fish Fry #3 16 Bar Team #2 9 8 Officers Mtg 7:30PM Fish Fry #2 Building Corp Mtg 6:30PM 17 31 TOOTSIE ROLL DRIVE 24 ST. PATTY’S DAY PARTY 10 Vegas Night 7PM 3 2 1 Bar Team #2 Sat 25 18 11 4 Sat Fri Bar Team #5 Fish Fry #5 24 Bar Team #4 Fish Fry #4 17 Bar Team #3 Fish Fry #3 10 Bar Team #2 Fish Fry #2 3 Fri Thu M ARCH 2012 28 Rosary & Adoration at OLL 7PM 21 14 7 Ladies Social 6PM Meeting @7PM 12 5 18 11 Pancake Breakfast @ OLL 4 Sun 27 26 Mon 4th Deg Officers Mtg. 6PM 4th Deg Members Mtg. 7PM 20 13 6 19 Pancake Breakfast @ OL Corporate Communion @9:30AM 12 Super Bowl Party Doors open at 1PM 5 Sun F EBRUARY 2012