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Grand Knight’s Message

Hello everyone,

In January, we had two events that were well attended. The first event was teaming up with the University of Akron. We invited other local councils to our hall for hot dogs and snacks, followed by attending the Akron Zips Men’s Basketball game. We had 33 participants. Our second event was our charity euchre tournament and chili cook off. We had 52 players and 11 chili entries. Our charity was for the Knights of Columbus Wheelchair Global Mission. We raised enough money for three wheelchairs. Thank you to Jerry Paridon and Missy Dort for running the event and making it a success.

Also, in January, I attended the St. Francis De Sales ministry fair. Along with the help of Mike Payne, Rod White, and Owen Shaffer, we were able to attract several new candidates. We have enough interest to hold an exemplification (degree) ceremony on Sunday, February 25.

Fred Cafarelli is selling raffle tickets to raise money for the hall’s maintenance and repair fund. 100 raffle tickets are being sold for $100 each. There will be 3 winners. First place wins $2,000, 2nd place $1,000, and 3rd place $500. The drawing will take place after all tickets are sold. See Brother Fred Cafarelli for tickets.

Coming up this month is the kickoff of the Knights of Columbus Ca$h Bonanza. The Kickoff will be February 3 at our hall, for all local councils. Brother Don White and his wife Mary will once again be our point of contact for this charity event, which just happens to be the largest charity fundraiser for the Knights of Columbus organization. Last year, council #3410 turned in 2,070 tickets. I think we can beat that number this year. Tickets will be available soon and sell for $5 each.

Lenten Fish Fry’s start this month. We want to thank Brian Canale for volunteering over 2 hours of his time to help with the cleaning of our kitchen and the fryers in preparation for the 7 Friday dinners. If you want to volunteer at the fish frys, there are many different jobs and times available. Volunteer sign-up sheets are in the lounge.

I am also looking for someone to man a table for our council at the Friday fish frys. If you are willing to share information about Knights of Columbus and specifically council #3410 at this table for one or more weeks, please contact me.

Would you consider becoming an active council member in one of our elected positions? We will be holding elections again in the spring. Our last two elected position descriptions are later in the newsletter. If not an officer, would you consider being one of our directors: Faith, Family, Community or Life.

Make sure you attend this month’s council meeting where I will update everyone on our progress towards earning star council and what we need to do to finish off strong.

Ash Wednesday is February 14. Come celebrate Ash Wednesday and Valentine’s Day at the hall. We will not be having hotdogs that day but ordering non-meat pizza for everyone. Bring your favorite side dish or dessert to share.

Be good everybody,
Steve Dort, Grand Knight

Committee Updates:

The Faith committee: – Come out to St. Paul Parish on the weekend of March 23-24. The mass intentions for that weekend will be for council #3410. All Brothers attending a mass will carry the gifts to the altar together.

Membership Committee: We will be having our 2nd exemplification ceremony of the year on Sunday, February 25, at noon. This should enable us to meet our quota for the year! We will have an information table about the Knights of Columbus at our fish frys. If you would like to man a table during the fish frys please speak with Steve Dort.

Life Committee: The Euchre Tournament and Chili cookoff was a success. We raised enough money for three wheelchairs with the Global Wheelchair Program. Thanks to those that participated!

We can always use volunteers to step up and run different programs within our action of faith committees of faith, family, community, life and membership. If you can lend your talents to help, please come speak with Steve Dort.