GUIDEPOST
Grand Knights Message
Greetings Knights and ladies. I hope everyone had an enjoyable, healthy, and blessed Christmas. I hope the New Year finds you healthy and prosperous.
In early December we had the Senior Citizens Christmas party, which was well attended. Everything went well with a good meal, entertainment and a visit from Santa on schedule. Many thanks to Ken and Sandy Resler for chairing this event.
Upcoming events in January are the 2nd annual Wild game feed the 14th with all profits going to St. Timothy’s Outreach. The 28th annual Concertina Bowl will be January 28th with income going into the council charities fund. We need workers for each event. If you can't work, come and eat at the wild Game Feed and enjoy the music at the Concertina Bowl.
In closing, I get lots of information from Supreme. The following is very impressive. World wide the Knights perform 63.1 million hours of volunteer service. Also the Knights made $135.7 million in charitable contributions, with 1.1 billion contributions; in the last 10 years.
Dick Dols
Grand Knight
Prayer Concerns
We pray for Gary Schuetze who had surgery for removal of his thyroid.
We pray for Bob Hosford who had an operation for an acute appendix on December 10 th. He was in the hospital for six weeks for chemo and dialysis due to leukemia. He went home on December 17 th.
We pray for Frank Neiland, 75, who passed away on December 13 th. He suffered from complications of Alzheimer’s. There will be a memorial mass sometime in early January. Watch the bulletin for date and time.
We pray for the mother of Sandy Resler who fell and broke her arm.
We pray for Dean Witucki the son of Dick Witucki who passed away suddenly on December 4 th.
We pray for these and all of our family and friends.
Ladies Auxiliary
I am writing this for Mary Hosford. She has been so busy visiting Bob. Please keep them in your prayers.
I would like to thank Nancy Hill for hosting the ladies Christmas party at her home. We all had a good time. We had a wonderful pot luck. We also wrapped presents for the family that we received from St. Tim’s.
There will be no meeting in January. The next activity is the Concertina Bowl on January 28 th. The ladies will be running the coat check. We need help from about 10:30 am on that morning to 12:30 am the following morning. Please contact Anita Loerzel or myself if you can help.
Jan Dols
Notes of Interest
Both the officers and membership meetings in January will be held in the annex starting at 7:30 pm. Articles for the Guidepost are due the third Wednesday of each month at the membership meeting or by mail to the editor.
The council web site address is www.kc5141.org
Concertina Bowl
The first major council fundraiser for the year 2006 will be the 28th Concertina Bowl on January 28th. Volunteer workers will be needed in the kitchen, as door guards, setting up the dance floor and rounding up food that morning for the kitchen. I will coordinate the workers. Please call me if you wish to work a particular job.
Dick Dols
2 nd Sunday Breakfast
The first Breakfast of 2006 will be January 8th in the St. Tim's Hospitality Center. Shifts are 7:00 am to 10:30 am and 10:30 am to 1:30 pm. We will be doing an egg bake. Please call Al Loerzel if you are interested in working one of these shifts.
4 th Degree Notes
Greetings from Nicollet Assembly Fourth Degree K of C. We have requested this space of your Grand Knight, to present clarification of who and what the Fourth Degree is, and what it represents, over the next four months. The significance is our Spring Exemplification in April 2006, to be held in Bloomington, MN. We invite you to consider membership in Fourth Degree, specifically Nicollet Assembly. We will present a series of questions and answers on how and why you can and should become a Fourth Degree Knight. The decision is yours: we will make it easy for you to join us in April. We will be holding an information night in March, which will expand on the notes you will read here. WATCH THIS SPACE!!
Wild Game Feed
Set aside January 14 th from 6-8 pm for the St. Tim’s Wild Game Feed night. It’s all you can eat, with roast turkey for the non-game lovers. It is held at St. Tim’s with the cost being $8 for adults, $4 for kids 4-12, free for under 3. This is a fundraiser for St. Tim’s Outreach.