June 17 Team 2
June 24 Team 3
July 1** Team 4
July 8 Team 1
July 15 Team 2
July 22 Team 3
July 29 Team 4
August 5 Team 1
August 12 Team 2
August 19 Team 3
August 26 Team 4
September 2 Team 1
** Note that on July 1, Canada Day, there IS Bingo **
Executive 2015-16
Front: Fred Dubrick (Chancellor), Mike Lobsinger (Lecturer)
John Price (Grand Knight), Ken Gaffney (Deputy Grand Knight)
John Walsh (Treasurer)
Back: Mike Mooney (Warden), Kirk Gregory (Recorder), Joe Lorentz (Advocate), Jim Miron (1 yr. Trustee), Dave
Wilby (3 yr. Trustee), Tony Vigar (Financial Secretary), Franz
Ebner (Outside Guard)
Absent: Fr. Bester (Chaplain), Shawn Raiman (Inside Guard), Frank Flood (2 yr. Trustee)
Relay for Life
Thank you to brother Knights who came out to BBQ for the participants in this year’s relay to support cancer research. In less than 2 hours we served over 900 English muffins with bacon, eggs and cheese. The food was outstanding and appreciated: Harry Visser, Ken Gaffney, Gerry Mezenberg, Shawn Raiman, Joe Lorentz, Bob Skinner, Lorne Twamley, Fred Dubrick, Larry McCabe, Martin Ritsma and John Price
BBQ 2015
This year’s Council BBQ was the best in recent memory with a record $1,426 profit. Thank you to everyone who pitched-in – preparation of food, set-up, and ticket sellers, clean up – everyone
New Member
Please welcome Alan Grapes to our Council. Alan joined the Knights 1965 in Hagersville, later moved to Galt and in the mid 1970’s took a leave from the Order. No doubt he got wind of Kilroy Council and its great opportunities to get involved in things like Relay for Life, Meals on Wheels, State Charity ticket sales, Rose Sunday, BBQs, Memorial Services, Share the Wealth for the Stratford General Hospital, Knight’s Inc., Bingo, Lenten Services, Basketball Free Throw, Euchre parties, Breakfast at Immacs, up-keep of St. Anthony’s church, AND matching wits with the likes of Harry Visser… what more can be said? Welcome Alan!!
Donations
Stratford youth Soccer $1000
Stratford and District Right to Life $1000
Have A Safe and Restful Summer
Remember there no regular Council meeting in July. The executive meets on Monday July 6 and the Share the Wealth draw is made at that time. In August the first Monday falls on the Civic holiday. The Council meeting in August is on Tuesday August 4.
Coming Events
Sunday June 14, Walk-a-Thon for St. Joseph’s Church restoration 3:00 p.m.
Thursday June 18, Knight’s Community Meal, St. Joseph’s Hall 5:00 p.m.
Sunday June 28, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. reception for Fr. David Butler, St. Joseph’s Hall
Wednesday July 1, Canada Day and Team 4 has bingo !!!
Sunday July 5 Parish cluster swim at the Lion’s Pool (4:00 – 5:00 p.m.) followed by a BBQ at St. Joseph’s Hall
Monday July 6, Knights Inc 7:00 p.m. Knights Executive 7:45 p.m.
July 27-31 Bible Camp; BBQ on Friday July 31, Immaculate Conception
Tuesday August 4, Council meeting 7:30 p.m.
Monday August 10, Knights Inc. 7:00 p.m; Knights Exec. meeting 7:45p.m.
Faithful Navigator’s Message
Brothers,
After a busy month of May, we look forward to a nice relaxing summer.
This month’s bulletin is a long one, but there’s one big issue that I want everyone to give some thought to. It seems that our “Phone Captains” system needs to be updated. Attendance to recent events has been low so we want to make sure that everyone is in fact being notified of upcoming events in a timely manner. To that end our phone captains and myself are looking at the lists and trying to find out where people are going missing. If you have not heard from your phone captain in a while, please let me know. If you prefer to be notified by email, then send me your email address.
My own email address is rjeffsmith@live.ca. My Stratford phone number is 226-786-0151. If you can’t get me on the Stratford number then my cell number is 226-789-1899.
Vivat,
SK Jeff Smith
Euchre
May 22: Hosted by: Larry McCabe and Jim Kelly.
June 26: Hosts: John Price and Adam Gulikers.
Coming Events
June BBQ Social: June 22nd, Cocktails at 6:30, Dinner at 7:00.
Note: Tickets will be $5 per person. Open to members and their guests. Please notify Jeff or your phone captain early so that we can give our caterer ample warning.
If you know of any of our widows who might be interested in coming out, please invite them.
Exemplification
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 4th Degree. We will be sending formal thank you letters to our sponsors shortly.
Flag Pins
As you may have heard by now, there has been a lot of confusion lately regarding the flag pins versus the standard Fourth Degree pins that we received at our own Exemplifications. A few weeks ago we received an email from Supreme stating that the flag pins are no longer to be used, then at Exemplification they were handing out the flag pins to all members to wear that day. To further complicate things, the new members at the Exemplification were given the old standard Fourth Degree pins.
So at this point in time I would like to advise all members who attend any honour guard or other formal event to carry both pins with them. Bottom line is that we all are supposed to wear the same pin when we do honour guard duties, so let’s be prepared by carrying both pins with us, just in case.
Trustee Position Vacancy and Nomination
Jim Kelly has completed his term. Thanks, Jim!
Ken Gaffney moves to one year trustee position.
Bob Skinner moves to two year trustee position.
Paul Smith will take the three year position.
Phone Captains
Jeff will go over the membership list and see what revisions to the phone list are necessary. Any member (or widow) who has any concerns please contact Jeff as soon as possible.