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The Sikorian A Newsletter of the Knights of Columbus
Father Vincent S. Sikora
Council 7992
Burke, Virginia
Grand Knight’s Report
Brothers,
I hope everyone had a nice New Years.
As I look back over the past 6 month, this I nothing like what I thought my term as Grand Knight would be. With the Pandemic, it is true that we cannot do all the things we typically do.
Even with everything that is going on we are still doing a lot.
We are supporting our Pastor and the Parish by being Porters for the weekend Masses. This allows the church to hold Mass and stay within the guidelines established by the CDC.
We have had 2 Blood Drives, one we hosted and the other at St. Raymond’s. We worked with INOVA to ensure all the of the COVID precautions were in place and safely met our goals. And we have another one scheduled for February 27th.
We have had 2 record breaking St Lucy’s food drives. We had to change the format, and do it Drive By Style, but they were both a great success. We even had Bishop Burbidge come out and help collect for from people’s cars during the 1st one.
We had a Shred Event, partnering with Marion Homes, which was also a great event. Drive By, donate, and have your old documents removed from your trunk and shredded. What could be easier.
We continue to do our Adopt-A-Highway clean up of Old Kean Mill Road.
We built a home in Appalachia, during a pandemic. If that is not dedication, I do not know what is.
We participated in our Parish Golf Tournament.
We supported the Our Lady of Guadalupe Celebration.
We have aided our Brothers in need.
Just to name a few. Yes, things are different, but our council is still active, and we are doing what we can.
Looking forward to the next 6 months. Unfortunately, I do not see the COVID restrictions relaxing any time soon. So, we will still have to meet Virtual and we still must modify the events we can have.
As I mentioned above, we already have another Blood Drive Schedule.
Our annual Art Action is still going to happen, it will be virtual, but we are still going to make it happen.
If you are going to Mass in-person, please consider volunteering to be a porter. This is a vital task that Father Bob has asked us to do.
We just need to keep focused on what we can do and not on the things we cannot do.
Something we do need to try to work on for the next 6 months is recruiting. If you know of someone who would make a good Knight, please talk to them, and get them in contact with Worthy Deputy Grand Knight Adrian. There are still lots of options for getting new members to join the council. Supreme and the Virginia State Council both have Virtual
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Inside this issue:
Announcements 2
Community 4
Appalachia Home Building 6
Family Reflection 7
Faith 8
Culture of Life 9
Paper Shredding Event 10
Christmas Parking Patrol 11
Officers and Chairs 12
Calendar 13
January 2021 Volume 39 Issue 7
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Announcements
Name Tag Assistance If you have not received a name tag, please send an email to the Worthy Warden, Tom Siepmann, at [email protected]. He will order one for you.
January Council Meetings
January’s next council meetings will be on the third Tuesday, the 19th. Please join us at 7:15pm to pray the Rosary; meeting begins at 7:30.
In order to continue our council business during this pandemic, we meet virtually using GoTo Meeting. You can join via your computer’s audio/video, or simply dial in on your phone to enter the access code — no computer or app required to do it that way.
If you have trouble downloading the app, call our webmaster, Br Michael Bender, and he can help you.
GoToMeeting instructions:
Name of Meeting room: 7992 Virtual Business Meeting
Please join from your computer, tablet, or smartphone. https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/605874277
You can also dial in using your phone. United States: +1 (224) 501-3412, Access Code: 605-874-277
New to GoToMeeting? Get the app now and be ready when the next meeting starts. https://global.gotomeeting.com/install/605874277
Happy Birthday, Brother Knights!
Join us in wishing “happy birthday” to our brothers celebrating their birthdays in January: Kenneth Brown, Christopher Kendziora, Thomas Queen, David Perry, Jonathan Phalen, Thomas Hydock, John Strauss, Frederick Zaiss, William Crowe, Rev Richard Miserendino, David Ashby, Brian Welch, Paul Saxton, Michael Stein, Geoffrey Gray, Edmond Melkonian, Lenny Richoux, Thomas Siepmann, Jack
Benjamin Migliaccio, Joseph Sopata, Alphonse Santarelli PGK, Edwin Leonard, John O’Donnell,
Thomas Wiecks, Donald Dwyer, Stephen Luteran, Ronald Cestaro PGK, Mark Delatte, Gerald Feige, Max Miller, Arthur Rupinen, George Durham, David Pritchard, James Barrineau, Raymond Swider, Christopher McGrath, Gerald Mead, Yensi Alex Garcia, Vincent Burdelski, Dennis McCaughey, Joseph Lemieux, Richard Spachtholz, and
Richard Treanor.
Prayer Requests WGK Barry created a form to allow brothers to enter prayer requests to speed up the process during meetings and allow prayer requests to be made outside of meetings. The link to the Prayer request
form is: https://forms.gle/HptiHZkirVRKPH6p8
There will still be a call for prayer requests during meetings; this is just another way to do it. Feedback is also welcome if you have any ideas on how to im-prove the form.
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Degree Ceremonies that are offered in both English and Spanish. There are local councils who are doing virtual ceremonies, and we can do our own in-person or virtual ceremony. Our council is still active, and we still have many ways for people to participate.
I hope and pray that 2021 is good year for us all.
VJ!
Br Barry B., GK Email: [email protected] Cell: 703-999-6729
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We’re Social!
Our council has joined the world of social media. You can “like” and “follow” us on Facebook and Twitter.
• Our Facebook page is: https://facebook.com/KofC7992. Make sure to “like" and “follow" us.
• Our Twitter handle is: @kofc7992. Log on to your Twitter account and type our handle into the search bar. Once you come to our page, make sure to follow us by clicking “follow.”
We will update both of those pages with useful event info, announcements, etc.
Council Corona Virus Assistance Effort
Thank you to the team of Brother Knights who made the phone calls to all our Council members to check on the wellbeing of our Brother Knights and families.
Thank you also to all the Brothers who volunteered to provide assistance to those in need during this period of global pandemic.
We have a robust group of volunteers, such that we’ll be able to offer sustainable assistance for the
duration of the COVID-19 impacts without undue burden to any one volunteer.
If you are a brother, or if you know of a brother, who can't get out to make essential grocery purchases or is otherwise in need of assistance because of being among the more vulnerable by reason of age or medical condition, or if you have any questions about this effort, please contact please Br. Rich Miserendino, Fraternal Committee Chair, at 703-440-0991 or [email protected].
Need Volunteers: Council Degree Team With the new Exemplification of Charity, Unity, and Fraternity, we would like to solicit volunteers for our Degree team. If you enjoy public speaking, this would be a good use of your talent and interest. Contact
PGK John Ostrowski at [email protected] if you are interested. If you are a current member of our First Degree team, please contact John O if you would like to continue as a member of the new team.
Policy for Accepting Council Checks
Checks should be made checks payable to "Knights of Columbus Council 7992" or "Fr. Vincent S. SikoraCouncil #7992" for all events and member dues except Appalachia, KOVAR, and the Car Raffle. Appalachia checks should be made payable to the "Church of the Nativity" or "Nativity Catholic Church;"
on the check memo line include “Appalachia Home Build.” KOVAR checks can be made payable to "KOVAR" for member tax deduction purposes or "Knights of Columbus Council 7992" with no member tax deduction allowed. Car Raffle checks should be made payable to “ All Saints Catholic Church,” on the check memo line include "Car Raffle."
Honorary Life Membership — Gold A member who has attained the age of 70 years of age and who has been a member of the Order for 25 consecutive years or who has been a member of the Order for 50 consecutive years regardless of age, shall be designated as Honorary Life in his council. Priests
and religious brothers are permitted access to all KOC functions with only the Honorary Life membership card. Parish Priests and religious brothers are automatic Honorary Life Members and are treated as such. There are no member dues charged for Honorary Life members.
Honorary Membership — Silver A member who has attained the age of 65 years of age and who has been a member of the Order for 25
consecutive years shall be designated an Honorary member in his council. Member dues are reduced to $10.00 per fraternal year.
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Community
Helping our Neighbors — Feeding the Hungry Our council is very active in efforts to ensure our neighbors have enough food for themselves and their families. These efforts can always use more help.
Neighborhood food distribution through Food for Others (FFO), a food bank and food pantry in Fairfax County..
Thursday evenings in Seven Corners, contact PGK Mark Sawyer, [email protected], for more
information.
Friday evenings in Springfield, contact Matthew Stockberger, [email protected].
Food recovery through FFO, on Tuesdays between 11am and 1pm from the Giant location on the Burke Center Parkway and delivering it to the FFO ware-house in Fairfax. For more details, contact Bob Colella, [email protected].
St Lucy Project Food Drives, contact the St Lucy Nativity team, [email protected].
KOVAR — Combined Federal Campaign, United Way, and Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign
KOVAR is a Virginia Knights of Columbus Charity established in 1971 to provide financial assistance through grants and home loans to tax exempt organizations providing training and assistance to citizens with intellectual disabilities.
You can give to KOVAR through the various Charitable Campaigns. If you do donate this way, please send
PGK Mark Sawyer ([email protected]) a picture/copy of your donation so we can get credit for it.
KOVAR is listed with both the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC) and United Way of the Greater Capital Area.
• CFC — #4256
• United Way Campaigns in Greater DC Area — #8838
• Commonwealth of Virginia Campaign -State Employees - #200467
Two Words: "ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY is coming in January!
The next pick-up date is Saturday, 9 January, 2021, weather permitting. Volunteers will gather at 10am in the Church of the Nativity lower parking lot (Old Keene Mill Road) and have a brief organizational meeting where vests and bags will be distributed before departing to pick up trash along Old Keene Mill Road between Fairfax County Parkway and Lee Chapel Road. It is anticipated that the clean-up
activity will be completed before 11:30am if enough volunteers are available. If you are able to participate, mark your calendars, and quickly respond NOW at t https://www.signupgenius.com/
go/5080945aaab28a64-adoptahighway19 or email Br George Getek at [email protected] where the first "AWARD-WINNING ELITE EIGHT" VOLUNTEERS will be given priority.
(Note: Under current pandemic conditions, social distancing will be maintained and wearing of masks will be strongly encouraged during AAH.)
Basketball Free Throw Challenge
This fun event will be held on Saturday, 16 January from 6-9pm in the Father Martin Center and is open to all boys and girls ages 9-14. Nativity girl and boy age group winners will be eligible to compete at the Knights of Columbus District Challenge in February at
Holy Spirit in Annandale.
Proper social distancing will be observed and face masks must be worn.
Volunteers will be limited due to COVID restrictions. Brothers who wish to volunteer please contact Dave Zivich at [email protected].
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Special Olympics Polar Plunge for 2021
The Special Olympics mission remains as vital today as it did when the movement was founded 52 years ago. The KOC provides year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This gives them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community.
The program, however, is about more than sports. We envision a world in which people with intellectual disabilities lead healthy, vibrant lives grounded in ongoing sports and physical activity, sound nutrition and a deeply held conviction to improve, compete, achieve and demonstrate their personal best to themselves and their community. The KOC current strategic plan is focused on continued programmatic growth, program quality and increased funding.
With approximately half of the world's population under the age of 25, young people are critical to addressing many of society's most pressing issues.
This new generation brings creativity, energy and an openness to change, and Special Olympics seeks to harness this power. As catalysts for change, youth with and without intellectual disabilities are vital owners of the inclusion process, and when empowered and unified by veteran supporters of the KOC Brother Knights movement, they will be unstoppable.
To succeed, we need more Knights, heroes, and fighters like you. Because of COVID-19, donations can be made by website or U.S. Mail.
Donations can be made by credit card directly to: https://impact.specialolympicsva.org/team/3287
To learn more about this charity and to obtain a U.S Mail in donation form and address, please click: Ways to Donate (specialolympicsva.org
Note: If you decide to donate whatever amount you can, please put Council 7992 on your paper check or the website. Our councils goal is $463.00 for 2021. May God bless our efforts.
Volunteers Needed
We are looking for 3-5 volunteers to serve on the
Widows Program Committee. Members will be
responsible for maintaining contact with 1-2 widows
on a quarterly basis, inviting widows to Council
activities, and most importantly bringing any special
needs to the Council. Please contact Br Bob Corsi at:
703-239-2890, [email protected].
Recruiting New Brothers Do you know someone who has been on the fence about joining the Knights? The Supreme Council will
be making a special Membership offer in honor of our founder Fr McGivney getting beatified and officially declared Blessed later this year.
Handy Knights Ministry
Fellow Knights — are you handy? Do you aspire to be handy? Do you have a few hours a month to volunteer to help parishioners who need a little bit of help in their homes? Sometimes it is just changing a lightbulb, sometimes it is helping to sort out a remote control for a TV, and mostly it is about spending time
with folks who are our parishioners who maybe are getting along in years and don’t get to have much company. I am looking to fill a roster with volunteers. If you are interested, please email me and tell me what your talents are and I will keep you on file when a job that fits your talents comes up. Brother Bob Colella [email protected]
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Appalachia Home Building
For the last 20 years, we have partnered with Appalachian Construction Crew, Inc. from Bellevue, Nebraska to build a home in Kentucky’s McCreary county. We will partner with them again this summer to build our council’s 23rd home (24th counting the major addition) and the 36th for the Crew. Past participants have seen firsthand the severe poverty in Appalachia.
Based on our fiscal projections, we are looking to build one home in Whitley City, KY, approximately 570 miles from Burke, VA. The Good Shepherd Catholic Mission already selected the Stephens family of six to receive the home. This will be our second four-bedroom home.
We need to start planning who will be on this years’ crew. We are looking to build a Nativity crew of 15 (NOT including alternates). As we did last year, we are looking to have a second crew come later and stay longer to help with finishing. Overall, we will be staying longer to do more of the interior finishing, like last year, to include hanging/finishing the sheetrock, installing the kitchen cabinets, trimming, and hanging all the interior doors. We plan to finalize the crew rosters by the end of March so alternates can make necessary plans.
We can expect that we will be following the same COVID guidelines from September with daily temperatures, restricting outside activities and
visitors to the Inn, and voluntary mask wearing at the Inn. Given the very strenuous work involved, 12-hour work days, and summer heat, we ask that only those in good physical condition volunteer. Do not volunteer if you have any medical issues in the current COVID environment. We would also ask that you be sensitive to your engagements two weeks prior to your deployment. Please talk to brothers who participated in the past to answer questions about physical demands. Priority is to ensure that we have the right skill mix to complete the build and we will give consideration to any brother who previously participated, other knights, family members, and any other volunteers that are interested and can be accommodated, in that order. We also, if at all possible, want to include new brothers that have not participated in the past.
In order to be ready for the plumbing inspector, we will again leave earlier as we did last year. The deployment for Crew #1 is scheduled from Wednesday, 2 June to Wednesday, 9 June (weather permitting). Deployment of Crew #2 is scheduled from Tuesday, 8 June to Tuesday, 15 June. All dates include two days travel. We will stay at St. Joseph’s Inn for the duration and meals will be provided.
THIS IS THE ONLY CALL FOR CREW VOLUNTEERS. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE ON THE LIST, OR WANT TO BE ON THE LIST, CONFIRM WITH BOB CORSI BY 31 JAN-UARY. DO NOT ASSUME YOU ARE ON THE LIST—CALL BOB AT 703-239-2890!
Knight’s Prison Ministry
Our Knight's Prison Ministry, a 501c3 Charity, is looking for a Book keeper or Accountant to work four hours per week. We are looking at the lowest bid to hire.
Our Prison Ministry hires recent paroles and uses their skills to paint and fix up houses. Our Ministry is a Godsend to our paroles, who now use the work that
we give them, to become financially secure. This opportunity also gives them independence, and a future to believe in.
The Accountant or Bookeeper that we hire, only needs to work on the books. However, if they would like to meet the people that we help, that would be nice.
Mike Litzelman, PGK
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January Family Reflection — Family Prayer
The Christian family needs to put first things first by cultivating a relationship with God together through prayer. Prayer is essential for families to develop Christian joy, faith, hope and love. All Knights are encouraged to reflect with their families on the theme of ‘family prayer’ this month.
Breaking Open the Theme
The Christian family is called to offer to Christ all of its activities through a life of prayer. The Catechism of the Catholic Church gives this advice about prayer: “We cannot pray ‘at all times’ if we do not pray at specific times, consciously willing it.” In other words, families need to set aside a definite time for formal prayer together in order to have prayer infuse every-thing they do. family members must build their life around God rather than fit God into their busy schedule. If families attempt the latter, then they are sure to find prayer dry and will eventually leave it out of their schedule altogether.
To help nourish a shared prayer life, it is a good idea to learn more about different ways of praying and to establish a rhythm of praying. Different forms of prayer include vocal prayer (saying out loud a formal prayer, giving praise, asking for forgiveness, thanks-giving, adoration, petition, etc.); meditation on scripture or other religious writings; and contempla-tion, in which a person just listens to and talks with God as one would with a friend, but there are other ways of praying, such as through song and art. A family should consider its rhythm of prayer, such as morning or evening prayer, grace before and after meals, and prayers before bedtime. Some rhythms are weekly, such as Sunday Mass and entering into the sabbath rest. Some rhythms are yearly, such as the liturgical year and its feast days. finally, some rhythms of prayer should be unique to each person’s family, such as prayerfully celebrating birthdays, anniversaries of family members’ weddings, baptisms (or other sacraments) and patron saints. The possibilities are endless, but it is necessary to develop a rhythm because “life is shaped by rhythms: the rhythm of heartbeat and breathing, the rhythm of day
and night, of meals, of weeks, and so on. Mental pray-er should become a daily event as vital to us as the basic rhythms of existence. It should become the breathing of our souls.”
Meditation
From Pope John Paul II’s Familiaris Consortio
Family prayer has its own characteristic qualities. It is prayer offered in common, husband and wife togeth-er, parents and children together. Communion in prayer is both a consequence of and a requirement for the communion bestowed by the sacraments of baptism and Matrimony. The words with which the lord Jesus promises His presence can be applied to the members of the Christian family in a special way: “again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will bedone for them by my fa-ther in heaven. for where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” Family prayer has for its very own object family life itself, which in all its varying circumstances is seen as a call from God and lived as a filial response to His call. Joys and sorrows, hopes and disappointments, births and birthday celebrations, wedding anniversaries of the parents, departures, separations and homecomings, important and far-reaching decisions, the death of those who are dear, etc. — all of these mark God’s loving intervention in the family’s history. They should be seen as suitable moments for thanksgiving, for pe-tition, for trusting abandonment of the family into the hands of their common father in heaven. The dignity and responsibility of the Christian family as the do-mestic Church can be achieved only with God’s un-ceasing aid, which will surely be granted if it is humbly and trustingly petitioned in prayer.
Discussion Questions:
1. Is prayer at the center of our family life? If not, why?
2. How can we better build a rhythm of prayer into our family’s life? In what way can we mark significant family moments throughout the year with prayer?
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3. What are our family members’ preferred ways of praying — vocal, meditative or contemplative? Is there a way to incorporate each family member’s preferred way of praying into family prayer?
Scripture Reading — Psalm 65:6-14
A prayer of gratitude for God’s blessings
You answer us with awesome deeds of justice, O God our savior, The hope of all the ends of the earth
You are robed in power, you set up the mountains by your might.
You still the roaring of the seas, the roaring of their waves, the tumult of the peoples.
Distant peoples stand in awe of your marvels; the places of morning and evening you make resound with joy.
You visit the earth and water it, make it abundantly fertile.
God’s stream is filled with water; you supply their grain.
Thus do you prepare it: you drench its plowed
furrows, and level its ridges.
With showers you keep it soft, blessing its young sprouts.
You adorn the year with your bounty; your paths drip with fruitful rain.
The meadows of the wilderness also drip; the hills are robed with joy.
The pastures are clothed with flocks, the valleys blanketed with grain; they cheer and sing for joy.
Family Project
The Catechism recommends that we find places favorable for prayer. One of the places it suggests is a “prayer corner” in the home. If you do not already have one, make a prayer corner in the home in order to facilitate prayer. This sacred space could be a simple table with a nice cloth over it, a bible, religious images and statues, rosaries, candles, prayer cards, a family prayer intention book, a vase for flowers, etc. Make the corner unique to your family and have each family member contribute one religious item to the prayer corner.
Prison Ministry Fr Vaccaro is asking brother knights help in writing letters to those incarcerated. He has a list of names
whose lives might be impacted for the better with your correspondence. Please contact him if interested.
Faith
Church Porters If you are attending a Mass in person, please consider being a Mass Porter. Invite your wife to join you and do it together. If you know someone who is not a Knight but may want to serve the parish, get them signed up, could be a great way to recruit them.
With the COVID situation impacting so many things, our Council’s service as Porters is a way to serve in a very meaningful way.
January’s SUG Link: https://www.signupgenius.com/
go/30E0D4EACAC29A2F58-january . If you have any questions, please contact PGK John Ostrowski at [email protected].
If you are signing up for the first time, please watch the porter training session that was recorded by Fr Bob. https://us02web.zoom.us/rec/share/491KMunA2U5OXavkswLPf6AxWa3VX6a82yQd8_YNxRyJMXnHWeg2Hc9GQnx3oKEN
Password: 4w#@$9T9
Eucharistic Adoration
Eucharist Adoration is every Tuesday from 5—8pm in
the main church. All regular precautions are followed: masks, social distancing, and hand sanitizing Click here
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Knights of Columbus, Fr. Sikora Council Facebook Page!
And remember, all of this information, and more, can be found on the Knights of Columbus Fr. Sikora Council facebook page at: https://www.facebook.com/KofC7992/
Please “like” the page to keep updated on the latest events.
March for Life 2021 is just around the corner!
Washington, D.C., 29 January. Just ~60 days away is the next BIG pro-life event, the 2021 March for Life. News and information about this up-coming event can be found here: https://marchforlife.org/
COVID-19 will not stop the march. Precautions will be in place. According to the MFL website, the following precautions are being taken in 2021:
“Every year, the March for Life works very hard to ensure a safe and positive experience for the marchers. We are continuing to work closely with our government agencies to do everything possible to be safe, healthy AND march as we have every year for the past 47 against the human rights abuse of today, abortion. We will have safety measures in place for Marchers to be announced closer to the March. Check back in on our website and follow us on social media for updates on the 2021 March for Life, State Marches, and ways to leverage the virtual space in order to promote life.”
Schedule of Events for Friday, 29 January:
• Pre-Rally Concert with Matthew West: 11am – 12pm. • Join Matthew West before the March for Life Rally for a morning of music and life! The concert
will begin on the National Mall at 11am.
• Rally Program: — the Main Event!: 12 – 1pm.
• The March for Life Rally kicks off at noon at 12th St. on the National Mall.
• March: 1 – 4pm. • Immediately following the Rally—usually around 1 p.m.—we march peacefully up Constitution
Ave. After marching, consider attending the Silent No More testimonies outside the Supreme Court, or advocating for life to your Representative or Senators.
• Rose Dinner (virtual): 7— 9pm.
• An evening of inspiration and fellowship, the Rose Dinner is the perfect way to conclude your March for Life experience in our Nation’s Capital.
For those who cannot attend the 48th Annual March for Life in person, there will be a special "on the ground" virtual experience of the event but you MUST register and sign up for it to get the link. The sign-up for that virtual experience is here: Sign Up to Watch the 2021 March for Life Coverage (p2a.co).
Culture of Life
March for Life Marshalls Needed
We need more Marshalls for the upcoming March for Life. If you would like to volunteer to be a Marshall, please go to: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0e4ba4ab2ba6fb6-marshals6.
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Paper Shredding Event—5 December
Thank you to everyone who supported our Paper Shredding Event on 5 December! Our Council received
$1,400 in donations, setting a new record for a shredding event!
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Christmas Eve Parking Patrol
Thank you to everyone who joined our masked parking patrol team for Christmas Eve Masses. These photos show our 3pm team: WGK Barry Basselgia, Dave Zivich, George Getek, BJ Dysart, Brian Blanchfield, Chirs O’Dell, Matt Bubak, Vince Augelli, Murray Rupert, and Bill Canavan. Thanks for slogging in the rain to make sure all went well!
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Knights of Columbus Council Officers 2019—2020
Officer Positions Name
Grand Knight Barry Basselgia
Financial Secretary Paul Gorham
Deputy Grand Knight Adrian Santillan-Lecaside
Chaplain Father Bob Cilinski
Chancellor David Zivich
Lecturer Mark Sawyer
Recorder Vincent Augelli
Treasurer Tom Goodwin
Advocate Chris Odell
Warden Tom Siepmann
Inside Guard Victor Alderete
Outside Guards Barry Rueter
Mike Adames
One Year Trustee Carlos Perez Jr
Two Year Trustee John Landy
Three Year Trustee John Ostrowski
Insurance Representative Ralph Heinze
Committee Chairs and Special Projects 2019—2020
Project Name
Program Director Dave Zivich
Faith Director Bob Collella
Community Director Russ Smith
Family Director Chris O’Dell
Membership Director Adrian Santillan-Lecaside
Life Program Director Tom Siepmann
Recruitment Committee Adrian Santillan-Lecaside
Recruitment Committee Russ Smith
Recruitment Committee Dave Zivich
Retention Committee PKG John Ostrowski
Retention Committee PGK Carlos Perez
Retention Committee PGK John Landy
Insurance Promotion Paul Gorham
Vocations Chairman Dave Zivich
Health Services Maiquel Sampaio de Melo
Fraternal Chairman Rich Miserendino
KOVAR Mark Sawyer
Newsletter Jeremy Smith
Website Webmaster Michael Bender
Facebook Administrator Tom Siepmann
February Newsletter Submissions Please submit announcements, articles, and pictures to Jeremy Smith at [email protected]. Submissions for the February newsletter are due a week earlier than normal, Wednesday, 27 January.
If you would like to contact us, please send a note to [email protected].
NATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCH
MISSION STATEMENT “WE, THE PEOPLE OF NATIVITY CATHOLIC CHURCH, BY OUR BAPTISM, ARE JOYFUL DISCIPLES
OF JESUS CHRIST. WE STRIVE TO LOVE GOD, LOVE OTHERS, AND FORM NEW DISCIPLES. WE CELEBRATE JESUS CHRIST IN WORD, SACRAMENT AND SERVICE.”
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Mark Your Calendars January
February
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 New Years Day
& Solemnity of Mary
2 Appalachia Collection
3 Appalachia Collection
4
5 Virtual Council
Meeting
6 Epiphany
7 8 9
Adopt-A- Highway
10 11
12 13
14 15 16 Basketball Challenge
17
18 Martin Luther
King Jr. Day
19 Virtual Council
Meeting
20 Inauguration Day
21
22
23
24
25
26 27 Newsletter
Submissions Due
28 29 March for Life
30
31
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
1 2 Virtual Council
Meeting
3 4 5 6
7
8
9 10 11
12
13
14 Valentine’s Day
15 President’s Day
16 Virtual Council
Meeting
17
18 19 20
21
22 23
24 Newsletter
Submissions Due
25 26 27
28
Show your pride and wear your council name tag
