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Pope John XXIII Council #5811 | ||||
| • 199 Brandon Road | • Pleasant Hill, CA, 94523 | • (925) 676-1052 | ||
Welcome to the Knights of Columbus website for Council #5811!
Featured Links
Events
To-Do
Pay 2010 Membership Dues Online
Shield the Vulnerable Certification
Special Announcements
Oktoberfest Ticket Sales Beginning Saturday, August 28th!
Tickets for the Inaugural Christ the
King Oktoberfest will be on sale following the 5:00 PM
mass on Saturday, August 28th and all masses (except 7:00 AM) on
Sunday, August 29th.
This event will be held on Saturday, October 2nd on the Christ
the King lawn from 3:00 PM – 7:00 PM.
Tickets can also be purchased after August 29th from Jay Becker who can be
reached at (925) 818-1915 or via email at scooners@comcast.net.
Grand Knight's Letter
My Brother Knights,
We are in the Dog Days of summer!
The Dog Days were popularly believed to be an evil time "when the seas
boiled, wine turned sour, dogs grew mad, and all creatures became languid,
causing to man burning fevers, hysterics, and phrensies (sic)"
according to Brady’s Clavis Calendarium,
1813. Today, we associate these
long, sweltering forty days between July 3rd and August 11th
with baseball, BBQs and family vacations.
The Officer Installation Dinner was a great success and well
attended by Knights and their families.
Worthy District Deputy T. W. Starkweather and District Warden John
Gonzales presided over the ceremony in Msgr. Wade Hall.
Fr. Brian Timoney led the assembled Knights and guests in opening and
closing prayers. Brother Jim Blair
shared three varieties of his homebrewed beer with us that were outstanding and
enjoyed by all. Thank you to all of
the Knights and their spouses who helped make this event so successful.
Special thanks go to Brother Sam Patti for arriving early for setup and
staying late to clean and close the facility.
The close of August brings about the
beginning of the 2010-2011 school year.
The Knights will mark this event by once again partnering with PTG to
host the annual Back-to-School BBQ on Sunday, August 29th.
PGK Jay Becker will coordinate this event on behalf of the Knights.
We plan to prepare food for and serve hundreds of adults and children, so
there will be plenty of hands needed to make this light work.
Please contact Jay at (925) 818-1915 or via email at
scooners@comcast.net
for additional details related to this event and volunteering.
The Back-to-School Pancake Breakfast is scheduled for Sunday,
September 12th this year, which is one week later than last year’s
event. The schedule was adjusted to
ensure better attendance by avoiding a conflict with the Labor Day weekend.
Brother Sam Patti will be coordinating this event, so please contact him
at (925) 980-3077 or via email at
sspatti3@yahoo.com for additional information and details regarding
volunteering. This is a family
event, so please feel free to bring your families to participate.
Our opening 1st Degree of
the 2010-2011 Columbian Year will be held at our regular business meeting on
Tuesday, September 14th.
Our goal this Columbian Year is to increase our council’s membership by fourteen
Knights, so please contact Membership Director Jim Blair at (925) 639-5924 or
via email at
jblair48@comcast.net with the names of worth
candidates you have recruited.
Please remember Father Declan Dean and Sister Maureen Viani
in your prayers during their time of illness.
Please also pray for Brother Joe Plant and his family after the passing
of Joe’s mother, who is Sr. Joanne Gallagher’s sister.
As always, please
provide me with your feedback and remember to visit our council’s website at
www.kofcph.org.
Sincerely,
Grand Knight, Council #5811
(925) 209-1444
Grab your lederhosen and dirndls!
Oktoberfest 2010 has been approved!
Christ the King’s Youth Director, Kate Doherty, has worked
closely with Brother Jay Becker and Farther Brian to arrange for the approval of
an Oktoberfest event at CTK. The
date of the event is Saturday, October 2nd from 3:00 PM to 7:00 PM.
Brother Jay is leading the planning efforts for this event
and has opened it to all fellow Knights.
Please join Brother Jay and others, as your help will be needed and
welcomed, for what will prove to be a fun and existing event.
More details to follow shortly.
Preparation for the Back-to-School BBQ will begin at 2:30PM on Aug 28th. The Back-to-School BBQ event is on Aug 29th. Setup and cooking will start at 9:00AM on August 29th. We will need volunteers for both days, so please contact PGK Jay Becker at (925) 818-1915 for more information.
2010 Annual Membership Dues
It’s annual dues time again. Dues are $35.00 for the year. This year there is a convenient way to pay your dues, just go to the Merchandise and click on the Buy Now button next to Annual Dues. For those that want to do it the old fashioned way, pay by mail to Financial Secretary Tom Chin, 255 Jeanne Drive or in person at the meetings. New Membership cards have arrived and will be available at the next meeting for those who have paid their dues.
Mental Disabilities Drive
As a result of our Fund raising drive for People with Mental Disabilities last year we sent check in the amount $1,478.05 to each of the following organizations in our community who assist those with Mental Disabilities: We Care Services for Children and the East Bay Development Center which operates facilities in Contra Costa County. A letter of thanks from John Jones, President/CEO of We Care Services is attached. We also received a handwritten note of thanks from Barbara Langsdale, VP Development, We Care Services.
Knights of Columbus Homemade Sausage Sale - Sausage Fest 2010
The Knights of Columbus will be selling fresh Chorizo,
Italian, Linguica, Apple-Cinnamon, and Polish sausage made with ground pork, no
preservatives and no MSG. This sausage is only $5.00 per pound and is sold
in two pound packages. All sausage can be ordered as links or in bulk
packages.
All orders will be ready for pickup at Monsignor Wade Hall following all Masses beginning Saturday, December 4th and continuing through Sunday, December 5th.
Sausage can be ordered by clicking this link or by contacting PGK Ray Szczepanski at (925) 228-4988 or via email at raymonszcz@aol.com.
Required Shield the Venerable Certification
Since most of our events include children the parish and diocese requires us to complete child safety training. Any new members and anyone who has not completed the training must do so. Training is online at http://www.shieldthevulnerable.org. It requires approximately one hour to complete. Once completed, print out the certificate for your files and one to be submitted to the parish office attention Marilyn Joost.
Past Newsletter Issues
Looking for a past issue of a newsletter? Please click this link and explore our archives.
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