February Business Meeting

Grand Knight’s Report:

Thank you to Phil Nickles and Bill Hull for putting on the 50th Anniversary Dinner. Thanks to Leroy for his history of the council, Norbert cut the cake then gave a fantastic trip down memory lane! Thank you for the Memories. Now on to more and other things.
Upcoming events are the Priests’ Appreciation Dinner and the Ladies Appreciation Dinner.
Communications: Deacon Tran and his wife in thanks for the invitation to the dinner
Four will be attending the Financial Secretaries Meeting at St. Gregory’s.
State Scholarship program to St. Gregory’s – we are compiling a list of scholarships from our Council. Need it by April 15th.
Amendments tried to be passed at last year’s State Meeting. Amendment passed was to assess active, ordained Deacons and Priests in the membership. These would not be assessed a membership fee.
There are priests that will be leading pilgrimages. These are posted on the bulletin board. These include Italy, Prague, etc.
Fr. Tim wrote an article in the Oklahoma Knight about Social Teaching in the Church. This is a good to read article.

Financial Secretary’s Report

Chancellor’s Report

Program Director’s Report

New Membership Committee
David Bassler – Our Pro-Life Project is DVIS for Easter – provides domestic services for victims of domestic abuse – there is a list of items they will need to make a nice donation for them for after Easter. Conclusion will be the week before Easter
Bill Hull – Blood Drive was not as good as before. Next Blood Drive is March 21st so mark your calendars.
There is a full docket for the Lenten Masses. 9 am each Saturday. Fr. Gary Kastl will celebrate the first Mass. Please mark your calendars and plan to attend. We need to make a good showing! Bring a friend.

Here is the schedule for our Lenten Masses:

Feb. 20 Father Gary Kastl

Feb. 27 Father Jim Caldwell

Mar. 6 Father Mike Knipe

Mar. 13 Father Tim Davison

Mar. 20 Bishop Slattery

Mar. 27 Father Brian O’Brien

Chris King – Columbian Squires is having an open house. We are officially opening our Circle. The Social is Tuesday, March 9th at 6:30 PM at St. Pius X. There will be a pizza, cookie, and drink social for the families. Chris is the State Squires Chairman and will serve and the Council Squires Chairman.
- We are hoping to have a All City Investiture of the new Squires. Hopefully, we can have the Bishop, as well as the Archbishop from Oklahoma City (Eusebius Beltran, who is also a former Squire).
Thursday we will be going to the VA Mass in Claremore. It is at 8 am.
Chris King is putting together packages for the State Awards including Priests Appreciation, Easter, Halloween and Christmas parties, Pro-Life Madonna House efforts, and 50th Anniversary Dinner. We want all the pictures we can get. Send any pictures you have to Chris King.
Bill Hull – We need RSVP’s for the Ladies Appreciation Dinner. Tom Metzler will be the cook for the dinner for the ladies. The dinner is Monday.
Lenten meal on Friday nights at the Hall during Lent. We will pray the Rosary after the dinner. There will be a nominal $6 charge for the meal.

New Business:

Proposed to offer 2 scholarships to St. Gregory’s. Proposition was carried. There will need to be a new vote for the next meeting to approve it.
Delegates to the State Convention on April 23rd through the 25th. Lon Unsell, Grand Knight, was proposed as well as Bill Hull, Trustee and Past Grand Knight was proposed. Lon, as Grand Knight is automatic. Bill was proposed since he is a Past Grand Knight. J.A. Arroyo, DGK as Alternate and Chris King as an Alternate.
Bernie Fonzo Award, Civic Award – Nominations. Does not have to be someone that is Catholic but has to be someone that has contributed to the community. The winning nominee will be invited to the State Convention. Nominees have to be in my March the 4th.
Next Pancake breakfasts will be March 21st (Blood Drive too), April 21st Pancake Breakfast.
Council will be offering an annuity for Fr. Mike at St. Pius X.
In the newsletter, there is a link to the Tulsa World for the story on the March for Life. Over 3000 were in attendance! This was well over the initial estimates for the March.

District’s Deputy Report

The 50th Anniversary Dinner was fantastic. We all had a great time and it was a successful evening.
Our District quota is 12, we have no additions but no deductions. We need to get a new membership going. Holy Family has 9 new members! We need to really push for new members.
Holy Family will have a First Degree on Sunday, Feb 28th at 1:00 pm. We can get our new members in there so we can get members into the Council. There is a 2nd and 3rd Degree in Broken Arrow on April 18th at St. Anne’s. We can get our members here through all three degrees in Feb and complete them in April.

JOHN COLLIER! Won the Pot of Gold! John won $157 for being at the meeting this month.

Good of the Order

Matt Buckendorf – in an accident during the ice and snow storm. Flipped his car and was trapped for awhile. Nothing was broken and bruised pretty good. Praise be that he is doing well.
Brody Million, grandson of J.A. Arroyo, had surgery today for tonsils and adnoids.
Kim Weisman, Leroy Weisman’s daughter-in-law, will begin Chemotherapy next week
Josephine Prugge, Scott Collier’s aunt, has terminal cancer
Deacon Todd Young and Colleen, keep in prayers
Don Dupruis new grandson Bode Reaves, born premature and in hospital 45 days.

Knight of the Month – J.A. Arroyo for his work on the Newsletter

Family of the Month – Bill Hull and Phil Nickles

Vocations:

Thursday, February 4, 2010