2019 Grand Knight’s Message
Brothers and Friends,
As we head into the 2019 Holiday Season, I want to take this time to wish everyone and their families a Happy Thanksgiving, and a joyous, safe and very Merry Christmas!
2019 has been a productive one for our Council. We have been able to renew our lease with the new owner of the building, we will be holding the first ceremonial of our order in our current quarters and have begun the steps to refurbish our headquarters.
The Annual John Maloney Golf Outing, our largest charity event, supporting 2 scholarships at Cathedral Prep and funds for Wheelchairs for Warriors, was once again a great success! Thank you all for your support and I wish to once again thank Richie O’Mara and Liz and Jere Gatti and the Golf Committee for all of their work in making sure this event is a success each and every year.
We continue our efforts in collecting food for our annual food drive, a thank you goes to organizer, Matt Keough for his efforts each year. I also wish to thank Ronnie Gorton Jr. for organizing our book drive for Veterans. We are finishing the second year and continue to request your support for reading materials. We also launched an additional fundraising event for Wheelchairs for Warriors just this year, stop by on any Saturday night to participate.
We will be hosting a paint party on Saturday December 7th at the Council, along with a drive to support Toys for Tots a thank you to Pat and Pete DeNicola for organizing. See the bartenders for information on the Paint Party, and bring a toy into the council on December 7th for the toy drive. We will exchange a refreshment for a toy to support such as worthy cause.
Our annual Christmas Party will be held on Saturday, December 14th at the Council, a thank you to Jere and Liz Gatti for organizing once again what promises to be a splendid affair. Please see the bartenders to sign up, as we all know it does sell out so get your requests in early.
Planning is already underway for activities and functions for 2020. We will have our Superbowl party and our annual Free-Throw Championship on January 18th at St. Patrick’s gym from noon to 1:30pm. Members continue bowling on Tuesdays in the bowling league and we are working to add more content and information to this WebSite, a thank you to Vin Campbell for organizing. If you have content, please share and we will post it.
I want to thank the officers of the club, who were recently were installed at a ceremony at Our Lady of Angels Church, and an affair back at the Council, for all their help this year and that which will be needed going into 2020.
Vivat Jesus!
GK Steve
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