K of C News Father McNelis Council #1481 Indiana PA

WEB SITE: http://kofc1481.org

SEPTEMBER 2017

Grand Knight’s Message

* Grand Knight: Don Hogan

* Deputy Grand Knight:

Michael Morris

* Financial Secretary:

Kevin Strezo

Greetings Knights of the Round Table ... Time to kick off another season! Lots going on—and lots to do!

C.O.A.L. fundraiser to fund the state scholarship pro-gram and to also benefit our Council—buy and sell some

tickets (book of tickets included with this news-letter). Contact Br Ben Dadson. Our Football Sweeps—just $10 a ticket. Get ‘em while they're hot from Br Bernie Liscik. Membership Drive coming up soon. Br. Chauncey Ross could use your help. 1st and 2nd Degree cere-monies will be held on Sat., Oct. 7, at St Mar-garet Mary in Lower Burrell.

Our 1st-of-the-season Knights Pancake Break-

fast at St. Bernard will be on Sept. 24 in con-junction with the membership drive week-end. Br Greg Z needs your talents.

Our Pro-Life Baby Bottle distribution starts the end of September and the beginning of Octo-ber. 40 Days for Life vigil in Pittsburgh on Oc-tober 4. The Life Choices banquet will be Oct. 19 at the Indiana Country Club.

We are off and running. All of our committee chairs need help ... and YOU are trying to get into Heaven! So it's a Win -Win!! Please vol-unteer and help the Council. Help the Church and our community. See you at our first Coun-cil meeting—Wednesday, Sept. 13, 7 pm. at the Lodge.

GK Don Hogan

Buy & Sell “Chance of a Lifetime” (C.O.A.L.) Tickets! By Brother Ben Dadson

Your C.O.A.L. ticket book is included with this issue of the September newsletter. By buying or selling these eight tick-ets ($1 each), you will enable a son or daughter from our Council to be eligible for a Pennsylvania K of C state schol-arship. It’s important that each Brother in our Council pur-chase or sell at least one book of 8 tickets. Proceeds from the C.O.A.L. pro-gram fund the PA State Scholarship from which scholarships are awarded each year—and we all know that the children of our members need all the help they can get to cover their college costs. Our Council also receives a percentage of the proceeds, which are used to fund our many charitable ini-tiatives.

Please try to sell as many books as you can before October 12, because our Council receives a bonus on C.O.A.L. ticket funds returned to the State K of C by that date. However, we will continue to sell books until the deadline of December 1st. The drawing will occur on Friday, December 8, 2017, at 8 PM.

Please help! If you can sell more books, please contact me at 724-388-4092 or bdadson@iup.edu. You can bring your ticket stubs and payment to a Council meeting—or mail them or drop them off at my home: Ben Dadson, 366 Heritage Run, Indiana, PA 15701

Pay with cash or check (made out to “K of C Council 1481”).

2017 C.O.A.L. Sweepstakes List of Prizes

2017-18 CALENDAR (September-December)

SEPTEMBER

6th—Officers Meeting, Installation of Officers by District Deputy Tom Pearson (7 PM, Lodge)

13th—Council Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

23rd/24th—Membership Drive

(St. Bernard Church after all Masses)

24th—Pancake & Sausage Breakfast

(St. Bernard after 7:30 and 9:30

Masses)

30th—Baby Bottle Distribution,

St. Thomas More, after all Masses)

(Coal Tickets, Football Sweeps)

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OCTOBER

1st —Baby Bottle Distribution

(St. Thomas More, after all Masses)

1st—Life Chain (1:00 - 2:00 PM,

Philadelphia Street)

1st—Households of Faith (2:30 - 6 PM,

Lodge)

4th—Council 1481 Vigil, 40 Days for

Life Campaign in Pittsburgh)

4th—Officers Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

7th/8th—Baby Bottle Distribution

(St. Bernard Church, after all Masses)

11th—Council Meeting (7 PM – Lodge)

19th—Life Choices Banquet (6 PM,

Indiana Country Club)

(Football Sweeps Deadline, COAL Tickets) _______________________________________

NOVEMBER 2nd—Officers Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

8th—Council Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

11th/12th—Membership Drive

(St. Thomas More after all Masses)

12th—Council 1482 Memorial Mass

(9:30 AM, St. Bernard)

(Deadline for COAL Tickets)

______________________________________________ DECEMBER 3rd—4th Degree Pancake Breakfast (St. Thomas More, after 10 AM Mass)

6th—Officers Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

13th—Council Meeting (7 PM, Lodge)

31st—State Scholarship Applications

Due to the State Chairman

1st Prize: 2018 Chevrolet Spark 4-Door Sedan

2nd Prize: Best of Spain & Por-tugal (13 Days)

3rd Prize: Viking Explorer Scandinavia (12 Days)

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Report of the 4th Degree Father McNelis Assembly #968

As you may have heard, the Supreme Council Board of Direc-

tors and Officers made a decision to change the 4th Degree Re-

galia. There have been many questions and concerns about the

change. As I receive updated information I will pass it along. Here is a link to the

Supreme Website with a picture of the new uniform with some questions and an-

swers about the change.

http://www.kofc.org/en/news/releases/new-fourth-degree-uniform-faq.html

Our Assembly Meeting this month will be on Wednesday, September 27th @ 7:00

PM at the Indiana Lodge. I would like to have, in attendance, as many Sir Knights

as possible to talk about the uniform change and the future of our Color Corp also to

talk about some projects for this Fraternal Year. Your input is requested and needed

for us to be successful.

Tom Pearson, Faithful Navigator

$25,000 FOOTBALL SWEEPSTAKES It's time again for the exciting Knights of Colum-

bus NFL sweepstakes. This important fundraiser

netted over $1,500 in profit for our Council last year.

It's a fun activity that really requires very little football knowledge. Tickets are

now available and are valid for the last 10 weeks of the regular NFL sea-

son. There are 25 winners each week. That's 250 winners for a total of

$25,000 in cash prizes. Prizes are awarded for the 17 highest scores and

also for the 8 lowest scores. These tickets are easy to sell. Please buy a tick-

et and help sell tickets for this important Council fundraiser.

See Brother Bernie Liscik at the September 13th Council meeting or contact

him at 724-388-4034 to purchase your tickets. During the 10-game sweep-

stakes period, you can check results each week at www.fundcrazr.com

2017 Knight of the Year

Congratulations to Brother Tom

Pearson for being awarded

Council 1481 Knight of the

Year for 2016/17.

Tom is a deserving knight who

has given a lot of time and ef-

fort toward making our Council

successful. He was instrumental

in our Council being award “Star Council” from

Supreme for the first time. He has made several

additions to our council that has distinguished

our organization in the community. I would also

thank Dave Miller and Greg Zawrotny for being

our other nominees which is an honor in itself.

—PJ Belin

4th Prize: National Parks & Canyon Country (13 Days)

5th Prize: California Coast & Wine Country (8 Days)

6th Prize: Disney World (2 adults/ 2 children, 5 Days)

7th Prize: Canyon Country (8 Days)

8th Prize: New England Fall Foliage (8 Days)

9th Prize: $2,000.00 Cash prize

10th Prize: Elvis & The Souther Sounds (8 Days)

11th Prize: Punta Cana, All Inclu-sive (7 Days)

12th Prize: Las Vegas Trip (4 Days with $300.00)

13th Prize: Puerto Vallarta (5 Nights)

14th Prize: $1,000.00 Cash prize

15th Prize: 60 inch HD Smart TV

16th Prize: 128 GB Apple iPad Air 2 w/WiFi

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C.O.A.L PRIZE LIST

2017 Charity Golf Tournament—Good time had by all!

For a better look at the photos taken at the 2017 K of C Charity Golf Tournament — and to see a lot more — visit this page on the Council web site: https://kofc1481.org/annual-charity-golf-tournament/

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This fall’s 40 Days for Life Campaign will take place from September 27 through November 5. Christians throughout the world will participate in this peaceful international campaign, which occurs simultaneously in all 50 states, in 714 cities and 44 nations!

Join this Pro Life initiative that has resulted in 13,305 lives being saved, 154 workers in abortion

facilities leaving their jobs, and 89 abortion facilities being closed. Help us to UNITE in prayer, fasting and peaceful vigil, held every day from 7 AM to 7 PM in front of Planned Parenthood’s abortion clinic at 933 Liberty Av-enue in Pittsburgh. Your prayerful presence there could save a life or even a soul from the

devastation caused by abortion!

Members of our Council will travel to Pittsburgh on Wednesday, October 4, to be part of this important Pro-Life effort. All are welcome to join us. We will leave from St. Bernard’s (upper parking lot) at 8:15 AM and return at approxi-mately 3:00 PM. Transportation will be provided. Please contact Brother Bill Ager at 724-465-4522 for more infor-mation or to make your reservation to join our group.

PANCAKE BREAKFAST Sept. 24 at St BERNARD! September has arrived and that means back to school, the

kick-off of Steeler football and, of course, K of C pancake

& sausage breakfasts.

The first breakfast will be held on Sunday, September 24,

at St. Bernard of Clairvaux Church after both the 7:30 and

9:30 morning Masses.

Volunteers are needed to set up, clean, cook, wash dishes, and serve food

and drinks.

You can sign up at the September Council meet-

ing or call Greg Zawrotny at 724-349-2509.

Please invite your family and friends to attend.

All donations are appreciated and the event bene-

fits the charitable programs conducted by our

Council.

By Brother Greg Zawrotny

Plan to attend "Forming Households of Faith," a

special family-centered program and celebration,

on Sunday, October 1, from 3:00 to 6:00 PM at

the K of C lodge. This new family enrichment initi-

ative is in response to requests from Knights of

Columbus and others to provide practical ways

for enriching and improving the quality of life of

Catholic families.

Directed by fellow Knight, Father Donald Conroy, the pro-

gram is designed to help Catholics become active in their

homes and their parish community by learning

new approaches to successful family living. It will

be followed by a family-style celebration with

food, drinks and fun activities.

Come and bring the whole family

and your friends to the Council

Lodge on Oct. 1. RSVP by calling

Br. Bill Ager, program coordinator at 724-465

-4522.

Special Family Program "Forming Households of Faith" on October

1 Promises to Help Families Enrich Catholic Quality of Life

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NOTABLE ANNIVERSARIES

15 YEARS+ OF SERVICE SEPTEMBER 2017

KNIGHT / YRS

WILLIAM E. MOREAU—44

RICHARD ORENDORFF—41

JOHN A. HUGHMANIC—25

PATRICK L. BUTLER—17

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