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THE DESOTO KNIGHT COUNCIL 7120

Father Gregory Bezy Assembly 2195 OCTOBER 2016

Volume 16, Issue 10

Serving the parishes of Christ the King, Holy Spirit, St. Gregory, and Good Shepherd

Matt Hatch

Grand Knight

WHERE TO FIND WHAT

Program director page 2

Business meeting page 3

Soccer Ball pix page 4

Membership Page 5

Council Pictures page 6

Council Award Pix page 7

Fourth Degree Page 8

4th Bus Meeting Page 9

September Calendar 9

Field Agent page 10

We have had a very busy month in September—

what with the spaghetti Supper we worked at Sa-

cred Heart School to the parish fair at Holy Spirit to

the Adopt A Highway - Landers Center Stand and

the painting of the Parish Hall. It took all to help

pull these events off and now we need your help

some more—THE GREAT PUMPKIN PATCH. It will

take all of us to help make this a success. Remem-

ber this is basically our only fund raising event to

carry us through the year. This gives us the money

to do our charitable works. You need to be there to

help. Any amount of time that you can contribute is

appreciated. Whether it is daytime or evening, mor-

ing or afternoon or later in the day –HELP IS NEED-

ED.

So make plans now to join us for fun, fraternalism ,

and be united in this great undertaking. See you

there!!!!!!!!!!

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Soccer Ball Challenge held at Holy Spirit

Church in Hernando. The winners were

Our District Deputy Dennis Fink reported

the following:

The following worked the Holy Spirit Ba-

zaar:

Dan Bicknell, Jeff Fink, Jim Terry, Jo Fran-

cis Marquez, Steve Orr, Joe Spence, Ern-

esto Guieterize, Al Gawal, Bill Marking.

Fr. Greg, Dennis Fink, and Brian Sadjak.

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Membership

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Sir Knight Don Coker

Membership Chairman,

Brother Knights,

Fall is here! The weather is getting cooler and the leaves are beginning to change. God’s glory

is evident to us during this time of year in these beautiful displays of color and enjoyable weath-

er. Change is all around us. Let us remember that we have the power to change the world for

the better through our principles of charity, unity, fraternity, and patriotism.

Allow me to take this opportunity to say thank you to those who gave their time to help support

the Cindy Pretti Scholarship dinner at Sacred Heart School on Friday September 16. The Pretti

family was overwhelmed by our support. While there was no official count, according to princi-

pal Bridget Martin, ”We do know we had 350 trays and we ran out of trays. The scholarship

made just over $2,300. The family said they never had a dinner made that much before or serve

so many people.” Brothers, this goes to show the positive change we can make together.

Leveraging those positive impacts on our world, let us also remember that membership growth

is essential to the success of our order and our council. Our goals for this fraternal year are to

add 12 members and 5 insurance members. The State officers have offered us a couple of in-

centives this year to jump start our membership growth efforts:

Incentive 1 STEAK DINNER cooked, served, an paid for by the state officers—make these star

council metrics by December 31: Meet Membership Quota, meet insurance quota, keep pour

membership dat and directory current and reflective of these number, maintain these numbers

through June 30, 2017, stay current with all Supreme and State Council Assessments.

Incentive 2 HAMBURGER DINNER cooked, served and paid for by state officers maintain all the

same metrics, except insurance quota. I doubt that there are many of us who would not enjoy a

free meal prepared and served to us, so lets get put there and recruit! October is a membership

drive month. Let’s continue our tradition of securing the future of our brothers and their fami-

lies by impacting the world around us with change for the better!

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COUNCIL ACTIVITY PICTURES

The members to the right are the ones

who helped at the August 20th Landers

Center Event for our council. The mem-

bers were as follows: Tom Lynch, Tom

Cusker, Ted Lander, Dwight Woods, and

Greg Henry. Blaine Anderson was there

also and it was his first Landers Center

Event. Why not make plans to join

them at the next event and have some

fun and fellowship — You Would BE

Welcome!!!!!!

We joined our Hispanic Brothers to help paint

the Parish Hall a few weeks ago. Many thanks

to all who took part in this activity. It looks

On Sept 17, 2016 the hearty souls

on the left worked our first Adopt

A Highway - Left to Right they

are :Dan Garrigan, Dwight Woods,

Matt Hatch, Bill Vautrot, Paul Sha-

han, and Mayor Alan Latimer of

Horn Lake

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WE JONED WITH OUR HISPANIC BROTHER KNIGHTS TO HELP AT PARISH PICNIC

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OCTOBER CALANDAR

Recap of Fourth Degree Meeting

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October 1 — Pumpkin Patch opens

October 2 - Pumpkin Patch open

October 3 — 3rd Degree Meeting — Rosary at 7 followed by business meeting 7:30PM

October 9 - Officers Meeting 2PM

October 15 - -Fall Fest

October 16 — Pancake Breakfast

October 17 - 4th Degree Meeting - Rosary at 7PM followed by business meeting at 7:30 PM

October 31—Pumpkin patch closes

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REMEMBER THE PUMPKIN PATCH IS OPEN EVERY DAY FROM 12 TO 8 pm WE NEED

PEOPLE TO HELP WITH THIS FUND RAISING EVENT — WHATEVER TIME YOU CAN

SPARE FOR THIS IS GREATFULLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!!

Sorry I was unable to be there for the Fourth Degree Meeting —

will do better on the next issue

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OCTOBER BIRTHDAYS AND WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

Birthdays

Oct 1 — Rev Richard Johnston

Oct 2 - Jack Dolan

Oct 3 - Warren Lubbers

Oct 4 - Flynn Clark

Oct 8 — Ariel David

Oct 8 — Jeff Fink

Oct 14 — Frank Dominoni

Oct 15 - George Hernandez

Oct 16 - Stephen Rausch

Oct 17 - Anthony Hernandez

Oct 25 - Joseph Grovogui

Oct 25 - Derek Fleck

Oct 25 - Robert Adams

Oct 26 - David Hernandez

Oct 27 - John Robinson

Wedding Anniversaries

Oct 2 — Mr & Mrs Miguel Paez

Oct 19 - Mr & Mrs Dan Garrigan

Oct 21 - Mr & Mrs Robert Purifoy

Oct 22—Mr & Mrs Nathan Schnexnayder

Oct 24 - Mr & Mrs Patrick Doyle

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There are pages not included in this newsletters—mainly pictures and a

couple of articles. If you want to see them please go to our web page at

www.kofc7120.org