COUNCIL LIFE Pope Pius XII Council 4422, 18th District St. Raphael s Parish JULY 2017 www.kofc4422.org popepius12@gmail.com GRAND KNIGHTS MESSAGE Brothers, Happy New Year! As of July 1 st, we enter a new Columbian Year (2017 2018) with this, brings a few new faces, as well as some old to the Officer s corps of the Council. Please welcome Ron Chalmers as our new Warden and Kwan-Yee Cheng as our new Advocate. Don Hoeffner PGK will be our new Deputy Grand Knight and Tom Prykuta PGK will move to Trustee with Doug Gondek PGK. The rest of the Officers (Tom Donovan PGK FDD, Joe Zink PGK FDD PFN, Al Swiderski PGK, Joe Iannone PGK, and Bob KauKaras) will all stay in their current positions, as well as the Council s insider and outside Guards (Freddy, Joe, and Danny). Fr. Holz has also agreed to stay on as our Chaplin to round out our corps. Please give them your congratulations and your support throughout this Columbian Year. Our last event before closing the books on 2016-2017 Columbian Year was our annual Pasta Knight celebrated on June 24 th. John Sarubbi PGK and his Food Crew did a superb job and served up food for about 100 people. There was plenty of food and seem all in attendance had a really good time. Good Job to the Crew and to the Chairmen (Al S. and Tom P.)! Since the 1st Tuesday of July is the 4 th, I ve moved our Business meeting to the 11 th (the 2 nd Tuesday). Please note, this will be the only meeting for the month since we do not have Social meeting during the summer (July and August). We will resume our normal meeting schedule in September and will have our installation of Officers during that social meeting on the 19 th of September. For the rest of the month, we have the Bus trip to the Sands on July 8 th, our semiannual audit on the 18 th, and our monthly Officer s meeting on the 25 th. It should also be noted, that these meeting are open to any member who wishes to know more about how the Council is governed and the Officers and I welcome you to come and participate in these functions. As with last year, my continuing tenure as Grand Knight will revolve around the same three initiatives as I mention last July: 1. To bring in new members the life line of the Order. 2. Membership retention - bring those member on the fringe back into the Council as active participants in our Council s actives. 3. Renovate our Council s Chambers to make a clean, safe, friendly, and an inviting environment that we all can be proud of. As I stated last year, these three initiatives go hand in hand with each other and I can only hope we as a council will all do our fair share to bring them to fruition. I can only hope you will all join me on this our next phase of our journey. Louise and I would like to wish you a Happy 4 th of July and please keep our service man and women in our prays as we all know: Freedom is not Free! Vivat Jesus Al Clancy Grand Knight Don t be a Knight in just name, Be a Knight in your daily activities!
POPE PIUS XII KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS PO Box 507 East Meadow, N.Y. 11554 PopePius12@gmail.com www.kofc4422.org COUNCIL OFFICERS COLUMBIAN YEAR 2016/2017 Chaplain Father Robert Holz 785-0236 Grand Knight Al Clancy, PGK (Louise) 781-5852 Deputy Grand Knight Don Hoeffner, PGK (Cathy) 794-1968 Chancellor Bob KauKaras 826-8748 Warden Ron Chalmers Advocate Kwan Yee Cheng Financial Secretary Joseph Zink, PGK, FDD (Dorothy) 486-2071 Treasurer Al Swiderski, PGK (Jo) 822-8562 Recorder Tom Donovan, PGK, FDD (Arleen) 486-4828 Inside Guard Daniel McCarthy Inside Guard Outside Guard Joe Realmuto 794-6823 Outside Guard Fred Garcia Lecturer Joe Iannone, PGK (Debbie) 565-6375 Trustee 3 years Tom Prykuta (Cathy) 735-1308 Trustee 2 years Doug Gondek 468-0812 Trustee-1 years Insurance Agent John M. Kenny 524-1061 john.kenny@kofc.org NASSAU CONFERENCE DELEGATES AND THE NEW YORK STATE CONVENTION Al Clancy, PGK, Don Hoeffner, PGK Alternates Doug Gondek, PGK John Sarubbi,PGK NASSAU CHAPTER DELEGATES Al Clancy, PGK Don Hoeffner, PGK Thomas J. Donovan, PGK, FDD Joe Iannone, PGK, FDD (Alt) DISTRICT DEPUTY District Deputy Martin J. Zafonte mzafont1@optonline.net Editor Don Hoeffner (Cathy) 794-1968 Webmaster: E-mail: webmaster@kofc4422.org Donald Byrne James Callahan Frank Chiodi, Jr. Joseph Cilia Nicholas Cuteri, Jr. Gerard Durst, PGK John Fitzgerald Douglas Gondek, PGK Donald Hoeffner, PGK Alfred Koenig Michael Leavy Albert Lusardi Daniel Mahoney Joseph Malandruccolo Ryan Scarpa George Sica Ronan Silva Donald St. John Michael Terino Salvatore Villani FABULOUS FOURTH RESTING TIME The Fabulous Fourth will be on hiatus during July & August. As both the saying and the song goes See You In September. I will be happy to answer any questions you have regarding the Fourth Degree. Every Knight Should Be A Sir Knight Joe Zink
BASEBALL POOL The current Baseball pool winners are: W/E Name Number Amt For 5/7/17 Pete Dafniotis 16 $ 5.00 Tues high Alex Swiderski 22 $ 5.00 Wkly low 5/14/17 Chris Swiderski 82 $ 1.75 3 way Tues high 5/21/17 Michael Prykuta 68 $ 2.50 2 way Mon high Al Swiderski 44 $ 1.75 3 way Sun high 5/28/17 Mike McGovern 35 $ 5.00 Wkly low 6/4/17 Andrea Dafniotis 78 $ 2.50 2 way Sun High Alex Swiderski 22 $ 2.50 2 way Sun High 6/11/17 Michael Prykuta 68 $ 5.00 Wed High Joann Balnis 24 $ 5.00 Thur high Al Lusardi 31 $ 5.00 Sun High 6/18/17 Joe Zink 3 $ 5.00 Sat High Joe Zink 3 $10.00 2 way 2 nd high 6/25/17 Mike Zembruski 42 $ 5.00 Sat high Joanna Formont 75 $ 1.00 5 way Sun high Thanks for your support. If you have any questions contact me via email swideze@verizon.net or phone call 516-822-8562. CONFERENCE CALENDARS We had a few more winners. Charlotte Formont 373 5/25/17 $25 THIRD SUNDAY Just a reminder. We try to gather as a group at 8AM mass. We sit in the 2 nd & 3 rd row on the right facing the altar. Remember to wear your K of C blue. If you can not make the 8AM Mass, wear your blue at whatever Mass you attend. I m sure we can come up with a better showing. SANDS CASINO Our July 8 th has a few seats left. The next two after that are Aug 19 th & Sept 9 th. Cost is still $39 per person & you get $30 slot dollars & a $5 food voucher. Call Jim O Brien at 516-794-7764. See flyer. PICNIC The Annual Picnic is on Aug 12 th in Eisenhower Park. See the flyer in the newsletter. Cost is $15 per person. Reduced rate for children. You can sign up in the rectory. We will be stamping hands at the park for food & drinks. Al Swiderski, PGK swideze@verizon.net SICK AND VISITATION Please pray for the following members who are sick and distressed and can use our support: Anthony Sequeira Fred Schrotz Joe Zink, PGK,FDD,PFN John Scala Michael Fitzpatrick Al Koening Mark Pozarycki James O Brien Doug Gondek, PGK Lou Hollweg John Bonsignore, PGK James Taggert Selvaraj Anandan Francis Fitzgerald, PGK Al Lusardi For our Deceased Brothers: Prayers for sick and distressed friends and relatives of Our Council: Joanne Brazenor Patricia Skinner Elsie Erk Carmen Garcia Domenica Anzalone Trudy Maron Maureen Ryan Patricia Carroll Gertude Kennedy Jerry Denzer Richard Brazenor, PGK, FDD Rosemarie Forte John Kolb Kevin McCarthy Martha DeTurris For our deceased friends: Lorraine DeSantis Our Country, The United States of America, needs our prayers for leadership to deal with the many issues it faces. Also please keep in your prayers the men and women of our armed forces. If you know of anyone who is ill, or who has recently passed away, or just needs to be remembered in our prayers; please contact the Council Life Editor.
Schedule of Events July 2017 04 Tue Independence Day 08 Sat Sands Casino 11 Tue Business Mtg 8 PM District Deputy s Mtg 7: 30 PM? 18 Tue Officers Mtg 7:30 PM Audit 25 Tue Officers Mtg 7:30 PM August 2017 01 Tue Business Mtg 8 PM 08 Tue District Deputy s Mtg 7:30 PM??? 12 Sat Picnic 19 Sat Sands Casino 29 Tue Officers Mtg 7:30 PM