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 Monday Sept.26th at Our Lady of Light Calendar of Events 8 We have quite a few events com- Please step up and get involved 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. 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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, “So That The World ATTENTION 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.