Please welcome our two newest members, Fred Dubrick and Howard Culligan. We look forward to seeing them and their wives at the June Social BBQ and other events.

The Exemplification saw forty-eight new members join the Fourth. It was a well attended event.

For the gift basket that we donate annually, Jean and I took a different approach this year and canvassed local businesses to make donations, instead of just buying some the basket contents. We received $270 worth of gift certificates for the basket. The basket’s theme was “Spend a day in Stratford” and included breakfast at Features, chocolates from Rheo Thompson, lunch at the Keystone Alley Cafe, an afternoon boat tour from Avon Boat Rentals and dinner at Foster’s Inn. If you are near any of these merchants in the near future be sure to thank them on behalf of the 4^th Degree. We will be sending formal thank you letters to our sponsors shortly.

• Date is May 23rd in Pain Court, near Chatham.

• All members are asked to recruit new candidates from the Third Degree.

• Any potential Third Degree members who want to talk about joining the Fourth Degree are welcome to come to the March Dinner or the May Communion Breakfast.

• Final date for submitting registration for the Exemplification is May 8th.

• Information for the upcoming Exemplification, and other District events can be found at: http://www.kofc5thontdistrict.com, as well as on our own website: http://kofc1431.ca.

• Do we do advertising for Exemplification?

• Jeff has sent in half page advertisement and list of members for memorial page.

• Jeff and Jean are working on a theme basket worth $100.00 for our Ladies fundraising. Funding for the theme basket has been approved

• I have submitted our advertisement for the program, along with the names for the Memorial page.

• Several of the members’ wives are working on the Theme Basket for the host Assembly’s fundraiser.