Ed and Mary Ann Miller were selected January Family of the Month for their dedicated service to the council and ministry to Sacred Heart of Jesus as well as Ed's service as Distric 10 Deputy.
Follow the links to the Awards page for the complete stories. Congratulations and thanks for these excellent examples of service.
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| Five new 3rd Degree members at the February 2 meeting with Recruitment Director Mike Welch (l-r): Pedro Bonilla, Jack Wallisch, Mike, Deacon John Froning, Phil Stephenson, and Billy Jones. |
Congratulations, knights, for your participation and for earning these two very significant unity and fraternity degrees. Best wishes as you work with your brother knights in advancing the council's goals.
Council 10208 is eager to assist St. John’s School in many ways . The use of a Kroger gift card with widespread participation can result in significant funds for the school. It all begins with the purchase of a $5 card from Ed Miller 922-0501. Then when you buy groceries at Kroger, take the card to the service desk (many stores can do it first, right in the check-out lane) and request that a specific sum for store purchases be added to the card. Whatever is unused, of course, may be used for later purchases. Five percent of each purchase will go to support the school.
Add additional sums to the card as needed. If you are accustomed to receiving ten cents a gallon (or fifteen cents with use of the Kroger Plus card) with each $100 accumulation of purchases, you may continue to receive those reductions and help the school at the same time. It costs you nothing extra to get involved. The $5 used to purchase the Kroger gift card will be added back to the card.
Consider this: Someone with an average monthly purchase of $400 for groceries and another $100 for gas could generate an annual payment of $300 to St. John’s School from Kroger. These Kroger gift cards can be used at any Kroger store and 5% will go to St. John's school. So please buy a Kroger card and join those who are already involved.
(Condensed from Malea Hargett's notes.)
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Arkansas Catholic offices are located at St. John Center in Little Rock. Hidden away from public sight where few people can visit is the archives. Rooms are filled with historical items and records containing diocesan history. Little Rock Diocese is 168 years old.
A part of one room is filled with boxes and bound volumes of 100 years of Arkansas Catholic issues. Bishop John M. Morris founded the newspaper on the Feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 1911. It was called The Southern Guardian. A couple of years later, it was known just as The Guardian. Many longtime residents still call the newspaper The Guardian. On its 75th anniversary, The Guardian’s name was changed to Arkansas Catholic.
The paper used for news print is not designed to last for an extended period of time, even under the best conditions. Consider the almost 100 years of The Southern Guardian, The Guardian and Arkansas Catholic, and you’ll understand the perilous condition of our archives and the history they hold through generations of Catholic people, churches, priests, and families in Arkansas. The early editions are crumbling away, and those of subsequent years are in jeopardy .
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| Shannon O’Donnell, Hayley O’Donnell, and Ashley Brinkley |
Four of the winners also captured local titles in 2010. The repeat winners included 12-year-old Dylan Anderson, 13-year-old Justin Bates, 13-year-old Hayley O’Donnell, and 14-year-old Alisha Davis. Dylan and Alisha both hit 11 of 15 free throws to win their categories.
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| Justin Bates and Youth Director Ike Eisenhauer |
2010 was
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| Angel Tree and Head Custodian Howard Shaffer |
--Over 100 people donated $5,631 for the purchase of baskets. In addition, funds were allocated by the Knights of Columbus ($800), the Men’s Club ($650), and the Ladies of Sacred Heart ($1,405). All donations totaled $8,461.
--44 people delivered 53 baskets to needy families in the Jessieville and Fountain Lake areas.
--$3,000 in non-perishable food was purchased from Project Hope, a food bank in Hot Springs.
--$3,650 was used to purchase perishable food for 45 baskets and for all of the food and gift cards etc for four families who were identified very late in the process.
--15 people donated their time to haul the food purchased from Project Hope to the Upper Hall of Sacred Heart and to sort it into boxes for the basket distribution.
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Considering that only eight of the 56 councils in Arkansas achieved this award last fraternal year, having all four of his councils win it in the same year is a remarkable accomplishment. Brother/Sir Knight Ed Miller has every right to feel very proud of this award.
Special congratulations not only to Ed, but also to his District 10 councils -Benton, Hot Springs, Hot Springs Village, and Mena.
Making up the other 50% of the Star Councils are those in Bentonville, Jacksonville, Rogers, and Siloam Springs.
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The Knights of Columbus Council has earned a reputation for hosting one of the best New Year's Eve parties in the Village, and the recent festivity was no exception. The doors to the Lower Hall opened at 6:00 pm for six hours of partying with dining at 7:00, dancing to Blue Velvet at 8:00, enjoying dessert at 10:30, welcoming the new year with champagne at 11:00 (New York ball drop), and wrapping up by midnight.
Twenty-four tables accommodated 191 revelers, not all of whom were knights or Sacred Heart parishioners. A bar with set-ups was provided for BYOB, and there was champagne at each table. The menu prepared and served by the Home Plate included: shrimp cocktail; Caesar salad; New York strip steak; green beans almond
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| Dancers Tom and Cathy Ament |
Co-chairs Russ Harrison and Ron Cuba coordinated the event with hall decorating assistance from Brent Hummel, Terry and JoAnn O'Brien, Jim Passe, John Purcell, and Tom Yerina. It is estimated that this fundraiser will net over $2,000 for the council's charitable causes from the $37.50 per person fee.
In addition to the good food and many people dancing, one of the highlights of the evening occurred when Russ proposed a toast to co-chair Ron and his wife, Pat, who were celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary, having been married on December 31, 1960, at St John the Baptist Church in Plymouth WI.
(This message is reprinted from the January 2011 Arkansas State Knights of Columbus Newsletter.)
Dear Brother Knights,
I am honored to greet you as the State Chaplain and look forward to working with you in the coming months.
I would like to share with you an image for our work together this year that comes from an experience I had while taking a side trip from a meeting of abbots in Corpus Christi to tour the USS Lexington, a retired aircraft carrier now docked as a museum in Corpus Christi harbor. We were duly impressed by the large thick ropes tethering the huge ship to the pier. But we asked the Navy guide: "Why do you not use chains instead of ropes for such a huge ship?"
He replied that the rope was actually much stronger and safer than cable for this job. These ropes are made from thousands of individual strands wound together. Individually these strands of thread have practically no strength, but bound together this way they have enormous strength and are also supple. No matter how large a chain we would use, its strength would depend on the weakest link.
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| Pictured (l-r) Bill Roe and Mike Welsh making a presentation to Shannon Currington and Bill Sims at Mountain Pine School |
Project chairman Bill Roe was assisted by co-chair Mike Welsh, adviser Milt Spaniel, and accountant Ed Keearns. Salesmen ("hamsters") included Jack Barrett, Roger Bresnahan, Ed Cudworth, Jim Elder, Bill Hartnett, Dave Johnston, Scott Krantz, Bill Nosek, Clyde Porterfield, Larry Stein, and John Sutey.