September 2011 Volume 9, Issue 1

 CHARITY

 UNITY Columbus Crusader  FRATERNITY

From the desk of The Grand Knight Message from Our District  PATRIOTISM After a four week vacation, it's ready. Past GK Leon and Mark Yos- Deputy time to settle down and get to way will handle the Membership work. Thanks Roman Catholic Drive . The 1st degree exemplifica- My brother to DGK, Dave Simmons for han- tion this month will be held at St. dling things. Our busi- Leo's on September 20th with our Knights, Brothers in Christ, ness meeting will be held on team headed by Bob Haug presiding. As your September 1st with our Corporate Please make every effort to attend newly appoint- Chartered in 1990 Communion being held at the our General Meeting held on the 10:30 Mass on September 11th. first Thursday of every month. We ed District Deputy I look forward to The kitchen work should be fin- will need help for all our proposed meeting you all in the coming months, ished in time for our September projects for the coming year. I hope I know your Grand Knight and officers 18th pancake breakfast you will be active and participate in have a very busy calendar set for the and membership drive. All you at least one project. coming year and they will need all of Inside this issue: kitchen workers and servers get May God continue to bless our ef- you to participate whenever you can, forts. John If everyone contributes a little time a Chancellor’s Letter 2 Spike Dinneen John “Spike” Dineen lot can be accomplished. You should Field Agent’s Message 2 Grand Knight all complete your degrees to fully participate in the Knights of Colum- Prayer Corner 3 bus, first and second degrees are Birthdays 3 scheduled monthly, so there is no World Day Prayer 9/11 3 reason not to complete your road to full knighthood in the coming months, Newsletter Boosters 3 please contact our Grand Knight to Ultra Sound Initiative 4 finish your degrees.. All Council Officers 2011-2012 4 officers should be aware that I have Business Mtg Minutes 5,6,7 From the Deputy Grand Knight scheduled a District Meeting for Calendar of Events 8 We have quite a few events com- Please step up and get involved Monday Sept.26th at Our Lady of Light ing up: we’re hosting the district in at least one of these events. . Church in Estero Fl. at 7:30 P.M., all Council News 8 meeting in the Parish Center; the Grand Knights , Deputy Grand Knights, Knights on the Move 8 Installation of Officers and Family Financial Secretaries, Recruitment Editor’s Information 8 Dinner; the Council Picnic; the 5K Chairman, should make every effort Race; and at Thanksgiving time a to attend this meeting. The State of now in District #55. If any member of the Family Dinner and Show starring Robbie the Ringmaster, prestidigi- Florida Knights of Columbus has been council who needs to contact me for any tator par excellence. We’re hoping growing during the past year we are help my cell phone number is 239-940- the kitchen will be completed in now over 50,000 members strong 3197 or E mail [email protected], tome for our September Pancake statewide with 360 Councils, and 10 God bless you all.! Breakfast and we’ll need all new Districts, St Cecilia's Council is Best Regards, Richard M. Cain DD#55 hands on board. Don’t wait to be Dave Simmons asked to be part of an event. Deputy Grand Knights Happy Birthday From our Chancellor 1st Thursday of each month 7:30pm Business, Page 2 September coming soon because the new kitchen 8:30pm Social at the will be a nice draw. Keep working on your Parish Center of Our Lady 1st Gordan Jirak recruitment and think about the events of Light Catholic 4th George Brush that you really want to get behind. Every- Community 6th Kevin Powers thing the Knights do is for a great cause 9th Donald Abberger and know that your time and hard work John Brown does not go unnoticed. Thanks for all that 13th Walter Smith you do and I look forward to a very busy "A man who 14th Paul Farr winter. Christopher Gustafson David Williams John Scavelli God Bless dies without 16th Joseph Hanko Hello Brother Knights, David Williams—Chancellor 19th Donald Hansen adequate life 20th Joseph Dubek III Hope everyone is enjoying their hot and Edward Strander wet summer. Your prayers to keep insurance 23rd Greg Pearl the hurricanes away from us are work- 24th Patrick Maley Jr ing. August was a quiet month with 2 should have 26th Matthew Mullen candidates for the first degree. The 28th Jack Berg kitchen is still under construction and to come back Dr Earl Smith will be completed soon. Save your 29th William Banfield energy for the pancake breakfast and see the James Reynolds mess he created" Field Agent’s Message: Case in Point: Will Rogers (1) Elvis Presley died with an estate of $10,165,434, for a king this is modest. After the settlement of his solutions, not debts. No other financial instrument estate his family received $2,790,799. That’s a loss can do all that. Call me and lets talk. of 73%!!! (2) Franklin Roosevelt’s estate diminished by 30%. (3) US Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes—a 35% loss. You’d think he would have gotten better legal advice. (4) William Boeing (yes, that Boeing) – a 52% loss. True, there are a select few knights in this area that are facing this type of shrinkage because of the According to the American Heritage Dictionary, estate tax. For the rest of us, we don’t have that Legacy is (1) money or property bequeathed to problem. We have enough to cover nursing and home someone by will; (2) something handed down care bills, and still leave a legacy to our children. The from an ancestor, predecessor, or from the past. children of the boomer generation will be the first Some people leave their legacy to the church, or generation that will end up worse off than the gener- to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital, or in a trust to ation preceding it. And not through fault of their own. make sure their grandchildren go to college. Of course, some of you may feel that your children Some have huge dreams for their legacy, some are wealthy enough themselves to pay all of your have smaller ones but one thing is for sure, they debts (current and future, including final) without want to leave a legacy to something or someone. having to hold a fire sale--taking huge losses to do What is your dream? What do you want your so; and, definitely your wife can afford to lose your legacy to look like? Are you taking the steps to income and withdraw savings, less taxes, to live for make it happen? I have seen many people that another 10, 20, 30 years. know what they want, and are doing all they can Life insurance creates, not the probability of a lega- to put it in place, but have not considered all of cy, but the certainty of a legacy; non taxable and for the implications. For instance, they are building pennies on the dollar. Tax Free Certainty of your their legacy aiming for that goal without knowing legacy is what you and your family get from the that the way their estate is structured they are Knights of Columbus, whether you live to long or die leaving a large portion of their legacy to the IRS! too soon, or become disabled along the way. Leave Newsletter Booster 2011-2012 Page 3

Albert Almeida, Michael Adams, Bryant Anderson, James Angers, William Banfield, William Ban- Volume 9, Issue 1 non, Patrick Becker, John Benoit, Jack Berg, Leo Berger, Richard Blackman, Robert Bonza, Roland Boyd, John Bradford, Barry Bratton, Glenn Bright, John Brown, Steve Burmeister, Michael Bur- sztyn, Deacon Francis Camacho, Dennis Cantwell, Scott Caycedo, Anthony Cilluffo, Norman Col- by Sr., Michael Conley, Chandler Cook, John Costa, James Culley, Steven Cunningham, Peter D’Elia, John Dinneen, Dr. Joseph Drago, Peter Ennis, David Ericksom, Paul Farr, Brian Farrar, Frank Ferlito, Everett Foster, Louis Frattarelli Sr., Timothy Freeland, David Gavin, Merle Gial- lonardo, Arthur Habighorst, Sidney Hauenstein, James Hawkin, Branden Henderson, Dean Hin- derman, William Hoogland, John Horan, Ralp Hutchins,Natale Ippolito, Sean James, James Kane, Daniel Kerinuk, William Kienle, Thomas Kinsella, Kenneth Kirgin, David Klare, Joseph Klempka, Julian Komeshak, Gary Kroeger, Gary Krueger, Brent LaBreche, Bruce D. LaBreche, Bruce J. LaBreche, Ralph Lacivita, William Lewis, John Liprie, Ronald LoFranco, Jeffrey Maas, Patrick Ma- ley Jr., Richard Malone, Herman Mancini, Jerry Martin, John McGrellis, John McLain, Alvin McCarthy, Wyman, Miller, Alexander Miller, Matthew Mullen, Henry Pasterz, Gregory Pearl, Evelio Perez, Vince Perfetto, Vincent Petrocelli, Dr. Anthony Pietroniro, Raymond Pothier, Kevin Powers, Leon Quesnette Jr., Frank Ragonese, James, Reynolds, Edward Riley Jr., James Ripley, Joseph Roach, Edward Roggemann, Fritz Roka, Raymond Ross, John Ruel, John Ruegg, John Ryan, Glenn Sabatka, James Sauerwald, John Scavelli, Kent Schmitt, Sydney Schofield, Vincent Scola, Edward Sedillo, David Simmons, Michael Stanton, Edward Strander, Jerry Tant, Peter Thompson, Edward Trimner, Javier Ubarri, George VanNest, Edward Weil III, David Williams, Ronald Willing, Charles Yelle, ATTENTION “So That The World May Know New At all masses during the were spared may live so weekend of September 11th that the lives lost….may not Hope” 9/10 and 9/11 have been lost in vain. A Knight will lead the congre- Comfort and console us, 129th Supreme gation in prayer. Followed by Strengthen us in hope, Convention the hymn “Let there be Peace and give us the wisdom and on Earth” courage to work tirelessly Knights of Columbus for a world where true World Day of Prayer for Peace peace and love reign September 11th among nations and in the PRAYER CORNER God of peace bring your peace hearts of all. Please remember in your prayers our to our violent world: peace in Pope Benedict XVI Brother Knights and Others in need of the hearts of all men and wom- Prayer Service at our prayers: en and peace among the na- Ground Zero. Steve Cunningham Bob Bonza tions of the earth. April 20,2008 Roland Jolie Turn to your way of love Leon Quesnette Dustin Delago those whose hearts and minds Ed Mikovich are consumed with hatred. Ralph Hutchins Bill Banfield’s Mother God of understanding, Bob & Janet Haug Richard Blackman overwhelmed by the magnitude Tony & Patricia Cilluffo Bill Morea of this tragedy, We seek your Gordon Jirak Dave Erickson’s Mother “Kathy” light and guidance as we con- Don Joerger Rachel Owens (joining military) front such terrible events. Frank & Erin Byron Chandler Cook (joining military) Grant that those whose lives Tony Damasco Deacon Frank Camacho Page 4 Prayer before First Degree Exemplification

Jesus, you told us that when two or three are gathered in your name, you would be there in the middle of them. We know that you are among us now, and we ask you to give us the grace to perform our duties well and to make this solumn and edifying event for our candidates. Give us the strength and the memory to bring these men closer to you and to your blessed Mother. We ask this in your name and offer this prayer for our success: Hail Mary, Full of grace. The Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou amongst woman, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb Jesus.. Holy Mary. Mother of God. Pray for us sinners, now and at the hour of our death. Amen! Queen of the Knights, Pray for us!

Ultra Sound Initiative

We want to inform you of a po- nancy Center and we believe that tential project our council is selling approximately 1000 tick- her center will qualify for an looking to become involved in, to ets at $20 apiece. Ultra Sound Machine under the solicit your input and feedback 2.) A straight fund raiser asking Knights Ultra Sound Initiative as to your willingness to support parishioners in the parishes of program. this project in some manner; our district to donate to this We are told that although these Tempus either working whatever fund- worthy cause. The idea is to machines retail for $45,000 to raiser we come up with, provid- purchase 1000 to 1200 baby $50,000, the Knights of Colum- ing financial assistance, or just bottles (at $1.00 apiece) and Fugit bus can obtain large discounts providing your ideas for kicking stuff them with information on bringing the cost down to ap- off or abandoning this project. the Ultra Sound Initiative and ask proximately $26,000. In order Our council is considering kick- them to take the bottles home Memento to participate in the program we ing off a project to place an Ultra and stuff them with their spare would need to raise half of this Sound Machine in the crisis change, coins and bills and bring amount and supreme would then pregnancy center in Immokalee them a week or two later. Mori match the other half. by applying to Supreme for For more information on this We are currently considering matching funds and starting a program please visit the Ultra two different fund raiser ideas fund raiser to get monies neces- Sound Initiative page on and looking for other ideas. We sary to purchase the machine. Supremes’ website: also believe that if we ask our Studies indicate that up to 90% http://www.kofc.org/un/en/ District Deputy to solicit the of pregnant woman considering prolife/ultrasound/index.html other councils in our district to abortion will choose life after accept responsibility for a por- Please give this some serious witnessing the pictures of their tion of the fund raising effort it thought (especially those of you unborn baby via Ultra Sound. would make it much simpler to who are gone for the season) This would be a rather large raise the required $13,000. The and provide us with your ideas under taking when piled on our two fundraisers that are cur- and how you may be able to other responsibilities such as rently being discussed are; support this worthy project. the Pancake Breakfasts, various 1.) A raffle for a trip to Rome for Dinner Dances, Handicap Drive, Gary Kroeger three. The reason it is for three Golf Tournament, etc., however, is that the person winning will be Handicap Chairman 2012 it would certainly be a worth- able to take his/her spouse or Past Financial Secretary while project even if it saved the friend AND their favorite priest. life of only one child. The fundraiser would require I have along with Brothers Pat

Becker and Sean James visited with Diane Hanson Executive Director of the Immokalee Preg- Page 5 Page 5 Officers for 2011-2012 Fraternal Year

Grand Knight: John Dinneen ~ 267-3774 Advocate: James Ripley ~ 405-7876 Trustee 2 Years: Robert Haug ~ 437-1247 Deputy Grand Knight: Dave Simmons ~ 221-7734 Warden: Henry Pasterz ~ 728-7524 Trustee 1 Year: Robert Bonza ~948-3381 Chancellor: Dave William ~ 432-9446 Financial Sec.: Kevin Powers ~ 498-8718 Field Agent: Mark Yosway ~ 322-7454 Recorder: Tony Almeida ~ 464-0269 Inside Guard: Frank Byron ~ 432-9960 District Deputy: Richard Cain ~940-3197 Treasurer: Gary Krueger ~ 947-1845 Outside Guard: John Scavell1 ~ 466-3466 Lecturer ~Vacant Position Trustee 3 Years: Leon Quesnette ~ 947-9780

God our Father, Your power brings us to birth, Your providence guides our lives, GOD’S and by Your command we return to ON THE dust.

Lord, David Tempel and Roland Jolie LINE, who died and still live in Your presence, DON’T their lives change But do not end. HANG UP!

We pray in hope for their family, relatives and friends, Vocations Are and for all the dead known to You alone. EvErybody’s Business In company with Christ, Who died and now lives, may they rejoice in Your kingdom, where all our tears are wiped away. Unite us together again in one family, to sing Your praise forever and ever.

Amen. http://www.kofc2596.org Calendar of Events District 55 8/26 State Deputy Seminar Council 10498 In Case of Death 9/1 KC Business Meeting At the death of a Brother Knight, notify the 9/11 Family Corporate Communion Vivat Jesus! Grand Knight or the next in charge, who will 9/15 Second Degree Meeting then contact the family and offer sympathy and help from the Council. The Council mem- 9/18 Pancake Breakfast-Tentative ber contacting the family should ask whether 9/20 First Degree Exemplification a wake will be held and if so, whether the 9/26 District 55 Meeting at OLOL family would like the Council to do a rosary 9/29 Committee Planning service. If a Mass will be offered the family 10/1 Third Degree Meeting should be asked if they would like a resolu- 10/6 Installation of Officers Knights Of Columbus tion of condolence to be presented. Any cer- 10/13 Second Degree Meeting-Tent Our Lady of Light Council 10498 emonial presentation requested should be 10/16 Combined Social & Council Picnic P.O. Box 1095 done only with permission of the clergy. If 10/18 First Degree Exemplification Estero, Florida 33928 the deceased Brother is a 4th Degree mem- 10/25 4th Degree Installation-OLOL 2011 Event Calendar Continued: ber, the Grand Knight will notify the Insur- 10/27 Committee Planning 3/25 Pancake Breakfast ance Field Agent and the Faithful Navigator of 10/29 5-K Race S 3/27 4th Degree Meeting the Assembly. 10/30 Pancake Breakfast 3/29 Committee Planning-Nominations 11/3 KC Business Meeting 4/7 Easter Egg Hunt 11/10 Second Degree Meeting-Tent 4/8 Easter Sunday Council News 11/15 First Degree Exemplification 4/12 KC Business Meeting Knight of the Month of September 11/17 Committee Planning 4/16 First Degree Exemplification Ed Sedillo 11/19 Family Dinner and Show 4/21 Clergy Dinner Family of the Month of September 11/27 Pancake Breakfast 4/22 Pancake Breakfast John and Shirley Ruehl 12/1 KC Business Meeting 4/26 Committee Planning 12/8 Second Degree Meeting-Tent 5/3 KC Business Meeting Knights on the Move 12/10 Council Christmas Party 5/13 Corp. Com. For Living Memorial 12/13 First Degree Exemplification 5/15 First Degree Exemplification Knights receiving 1st Degree 12/18 Pancake Breakfast 5/27 Pancake Breakfast Anthony Vocaire 7.18 12/29 Committee Planning 5/31 Committee Planning Tony Almeida 6.21 ~ 2011 ~ Justin Jordan 7.18 6/7 Business Meeting/New Officers Vote 1/5 KC Business Meeting Knights receiving 2nd Degree 6/19 First Degree Exemplification Tony Almeida 7.21 1/14 4th Degree Dinner 6/24 Pancake Breakfast Kevin Koskinas 7.21 1/15 Corp. Com. Living Memorial Mass 6/28 Committee Planning 1/17 First Degree Exemplification 6/30 Liberty Ball at OLOL 1/26 Committee Planning 1/29 Pancake Breakfast

Publisher: Albert “Tony” Almeida 2/2 Business Meeting 2/3, 4,5 Tootsie Roll Disabilities Drive Cell Phone: 2/18 Mardi Gras Dinner/Dance 464-0269 2/21 First Degree Exemplification FAX Number: 2/23 Committee Planning 495-4340 2/26 Pancake Breakfast Email Address: 3/1 KC Business Meeting [email protected] 3/3,4 Tootsie Roll Disabilities Drive 3/20 First Degree Exemplification 3/24 Golf Tournament