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FATHER FRANCIS A. RYAN COUNCIL No. 5025 St. Thecla Church, 6725 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL 60631 1 Newsletter October 2015 Editor – PGK Andy D. Liamaga __________________________________________________ Greetings from Grand Knight Robert Rutherford Greetings Brother Knights & Friends, I hope you all had an enjoyable summer. We are now entering into the fall season and with many events happening with the Knights all lined up. Our first party was the Octoberfest on October 22 nd . PGK Joseph Pedersen prepared some delicious food and libations. The cost was only $20.00 for all the food you can eat and delicious desserts brought by the council members that made the night more enjoyable. The event was open to anyone who brought their friends and family members. Our second event will be the Annual Turkey Shoot on November 21 st at St. Thecla School, Falcon Hall. This is always fun event and a chance to win Turkey or Ham for your Thanksgiving dinner. There will be a raffle with wonderful prizes to win multiple times. PGK Robin Kwiatkowski and PDG Roger Stachnik are again teaming up to make it better than ever. We need your 100% support as this is the only fund drive Father Ryan Council runs and proceeds go the various charitable organizations we support throughout the fraternal year. And to finish up the year will be the Children’s Christmas Party at the basement of Saint Mary of the Woods Church chaired by PGK John Shanahan on December 12 th followed by the adult Christmas Party to be held on December 13 th at La Villa Restaurant. Details of these two holiday parties will be published. To start the 2016 New Year, SK Mike Morris will be running the Children’s Free Throw Contests at St. Thecla School’s Gymnasium. Please plan on attending the events as you pledge your support to Father Ryan Council. You can still contribute to the ID Tootsie Roll Drive. The Tootsie Rolls are still available and they do make a great treat for kids at Halloween. As you already know, the money raised supports programs that assist people with special learning needs. At this time you must already received in the mail the raffle books for the Vocation Raffle and proceeds support our seminarians. I hope to see you all at these events and at our council meetings that are held on the 1 st and 3 rd Tuesdays of the month at St. Thecla’s Queen of Peace Room. I wish everyone the best and have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family. Vivat Jesus, Robert Rutherford Grand Knight Father Ryan Council #5025 Please check us out on the web: Father Francis Ryan Council No. 5025 http://kofcCouncils.net & enter 5025 Council 5025 Meeting Dates at St. Thecla Church 1st Degree – See Chart of Events as Scheduled Meetings – 1st Tuesdays of the month Regular Meetings – 3rd Tuesdays of the month Officers Meetings – 4th Tuesdays of the month All meetings promptly start at 7:30 pm Annual Vocation Raffle Program
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FATHER FRANCIS A. RYAN COUNCIL No. 5025 St. Thecla Church, 6725 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL 60631
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Newsletter October 2015
Editor – PGK Andy D. Liamaga __________________________________________________
Greetings from Grand Knight Robert Rutherford
Greetings Brother Knights & Friends,
I hope you all had an enjoyable summer. We are now entering into the fall season and with many events happening with the Knights all lined up. Our first party was the Octoberfest on October 22nd. PGK Joseph Pedersen prepared some delicious food and libations. The cost was only $20.00 for all the food you can eat and delicious desserts brought by the council members that made the night more enjoyable. The event was open to anyone who brought their friends and family members.
Our second event will be the Annual Turkey Shoot on November 21st at St. Thecla School, Falcon Hall. This is always fun event and a chance to win Turkey or Ham for your Thanksgiving dinner. There will be a raffle with wonderful prizes to win multiple times. PGK Robin Kwiatkowski and PDG Roger Stachnik are again teaming up to make it better than ever. We need your 100% support as this is the only fund drive Father Ryan Council runs and proceeds go the various charitable organizations we support throughout the fraternal year.
And to finish up the year will be the Children’s Christmas Party at the basement of Saint Mary of the Woods Church chaired by PGK John Shanahan on December 12th followed by the adult Christmas Party to be held on December 13th at La Villa Restaurant. Details of these two holiday parties will be published.
To start the 2016 New Year, SK Mike Morris will be running the Children’s Free Throw Contests at St. Thecla School’s Gymnasium. Please plan on attending the events as you pledge your support to Father Ryan Council.
You can still contribute to the ID Tootsie Roll Drive. The Tootsie Rolls are still available and they do make a great treat for kids at Halloween. As you already know, the money raised supports programs that assist people with special learning needs. At this time you must already received in the mail the raffle books for the Vocation Raffle and proceeds support our seminarians.
I hope to see you all at these events and at our council meetings that are held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of the month at St. Thecla’s Queen of Peace Room. I wish everyone the best and have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your friends and family.
Vivat Jesus, Robert Rutherford Grand Knight Father Ryan Council #5025
Please check us out on the web: Father Francis Ryan Council No. 5025
http://kofcCouncils.net & enter 5025
Council 5025 Meeting Dates at St. Thecla Church 1st Degree – See Chart of Events as Scheduled
Meetings – 1st Tuesdays of the month
Regular Meetings – 3rd Tuesdays of the month
Officers Meetings – 4th Tuesdays of the month
All meetings promptly start at 7:30 pm
Annual Vocation Raffle Program
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Father Ryan Council started the year 2015 coping with our busy schedule but that didn’t stop our Chancellor, Robert Antol who chairs this year’s
Annual Vocation Raffle Support works so hard to put all the raffle books together to meet the November 27, 2015 deadline. These yellow booklets were already mailed to all members and friends, please fill them out and with your payment, you may send them back to our Chancellor, Robert Antol at our council’s address, Father Ryan Council No 5025, St. Thecla Church, 6725 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL 60631 or you may contact him at 1-773-369-6561 or [email protected]. You may also stop by at our council meetings and meet our Chancellor in person. Thank you Brother Knights and friends, your generosity will benefit our support to the seminarians.
Fourth Degree Club
PGK Mark Cribben will have a very busy schedule of this Fraternal Year. Besides his commitments with the Father Ryan Council, he is also the Faithful Navigator of Bishop Raymond Hillinger Assembly No. 1595.
Note: You don’t have to be a 4th Degree Knight to join our meetings at Pizza D’Oro, 5800 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL 60646. Check our Chart of Events what date we meet or call Mark at 1-773-481-1532 or [email protected]
ASSEMBLY MEETING 7:30 p.m.
All meetings will be at Our Lady of Ransom 8524 W. Normal, Niles, IL 60714
Business Meetings – 3rd Monday of the month Officers Meeting – 1st Monday of the month
Turkey Shoot
Saturday, November 21, 2015 St. Thecla, Falcon Hall
Call Chairpersons: PGK Robert Kwiatkowski
773-462-4079 or [email protected]
PGK Roger Stachnik 773-318-7969 or [email protected]
“Turkey Shoot” Grand Raffle offers a chance to win great prizes while having loads of party fun. This is our only major fund drive, so please be generous to fill out the raffle tickets that were sent to you via mail. You may also purchase additional tickets on the night of the event on the 21st of November.
(for details, flyer attached)
Have a great Thanksgiving!!
You are all invited to join Father Ryan Council No. 5025 on Friday, December 11th at
6:30pm Annual Adult Christmas Party at
La Villa Restaurant 3632 N. Pulaski Rd., Chicago, IL
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Cover Charge: $50.00 Open Bar and Dinner
Free Parking Contact:
GK Robert Rutherford for RSVP at 773-805-8515 or [email protected]
Please join Santa Claus and members of
Father Ryan Council
for the Kids Christmas Party on
Saturday, Dec. 12, 2015
12:00 – 3:00 P.M.
St. Mary of the Woods Church (basement).
No Charge!
Food will be served and there will be gifts
to all kids. RSVP to
Chairperson PGK John Shanahan [email protected] or 773-631-6344
FREE THROW CONTEST
Saturday, January 9, 2016
St. Thecla Church, Falcon Hall/Gym
Time: 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
(flyer attached)
Contact:
Chairperson: SK Mike Morris
[email protected] or 773-726-2524
Note from the Editor:
If you have correspondence or questions, please don’t hesitate to contact me at 1-773-539-7341 or
PGK Andy D. Liamaga, Editor in Charge
To All Members:
After our December 1st Business Meeting, we will resume all our meetings on January 5, 2016 which is a First Degree Exemplification. If you have candidates, make sure they get to our council eetingchamber by 7:00pm. Thank you.
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SK Henry K. PasekA 4th Degree Sir KnightFather Francis Ryan Council
May their souls thru the mercy of God Rest in Peace….
Protect the Unborn
God bless all of you for all the prayers, the commitments and sacrifices you have made in the Adoration Chapel to help God’s grace flow.
As of this writing, the Family Planning Associates (across from the 40 Days for Life site) in Chicago as been closed for number of days and the building signs are down, phone calls are being referred to other locations.
Our prayers are heard!
At the outside 40 Days for Life, we will maintain our 24/7 outside prayers at the Divine Mercy
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Image in the Knamaya Center parking lot through November 1st as planned. May God continue to bless each every one of you for all the blessings you provided for others and the respect of every human life.
There will be a closing ceremony on Sunday, the 1st of November at 7:00pm at the Knamaya Center parking lot. A mass will be celebrated at vigil site by Bishop Alberto Rojas. Please encourage family and friends to join us for this celebration of a true milestone.
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Illinois State Council
K OF C Charities, Inc.
Newman Apostolate
Program
The Newman Catholic
Ministries Fund
Donations are not restricted to members only. Councils are encouraged to sponsor programs such as Newman Walk-aThon, spaghetti dinners, pancake breakfast and other fundraisers so that our children, grandchildren, nephews and nieces will be able to attend Newman Centers and programs that foster our faith. Chairman is Bob Fuggiti 847-921-8738
Your donation of $5.00, $10.00, $25.00, $50.00 and our Century Donations of $100.00 will continue to support the: “Home Parish on Campus” for our students. Please note: Century Donors receive a new plaque, year plate and a lapel pin on the 1st, 11th, 21st and 31st years. On the other years, Century Donors receive a year and lapel pin.
Support Persecuted
Christians in the Middle East
The Knights of Columbus is committed to assisting our Christian brothers and sisters who are suffering in the Middle East. At this year’s Supreme Convention, Supreme Knight, Carl Anderson announced a “Season of Truth” dedicated to raising awareness of their plight and the plight of other religious minorities in the region.
To date, we have donated more than $4 million to relief efforts in Iraq and Syria through the Knights of Columbus Christian Refugee Relief Fund. However, more assistance is needed, as the response from the international community has been woefully inadequate. More Council fundraising info to come.
Please go to christianatrisk.org to learn more about this humanitarian emergency and make a donation that will provide material assistance to these refugees. Kindly also, consider sharing this message with your family and friend.
Centers of Hope & Healing Fr. Michael J. McGivney
Come Celebrate the 5th Anniversary
Annual Pink & Blue Banquet Honoring Bishop Joseph M. Siegel
Auxiliary Bishop of Joliet, Vicar General State Chaplain of the Illinois Knights of Columbus
Save the Date: August 12, 2016 The Belvedere
1170 W. Devon Avenue Elk Grove Village, IL
Dinner & Silent Auction Tickets: $65.00 per guest
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September 18 – 20, 2015
Congratulations to all the members of Father Ryan Council No. 5025 who participated on collecting donations on designated streets that made the Annual Tootsie Roll Fund Drive a huge success!
Our thanks to the Corner Captains, PGK Bob Fuggiti (substituting PGK Bob on that Saturday, PGK Dr. Dave Herrmann) and PGK Mark Cribben. Same goes to the Chairman, IPGK Bob Chereck!
And to those who donated money, most especially the Century Donors, thank you…thank you… thank you! Besides the corner streets, we also had a permit to collect at Jewel/Osco Store at Foster and Pulaski. PGK Andy Liamaga, SK Remo Cordero and Linda Fuggiti (wife of PGK Bob Fuggiti) covered that area. Thanks to SK Remo & Linda.
I wish more pictures were taken during the fund drive but I have one to share:
Below pictures were taken during our 2015 Memorial Mass at SMOW. Commander Dr. Dave Herrmann and the Honor Guards at the 9:30 AM Mass on September 13th.
Members of Council No. 5025 and parishioners of SMOW at the Memorial Mass delicious breakfast prepared and chaired by PGK Andy Liamaga & PGK Dr. Dave Herrmann on September 13th.
Council No. 5025 Annual Octoberfest at St. Thecla Church Queen of Peace Room on October 20th.
Besides the delicious food we enjoyed, unlimited drinks were served too. There were great raffle prizes won by the attendees. Octoberfest 2015 was chaired by PGK Joe Pedersen and IPGK Bob Chereck. Thanks for making this annual event a success that everyone enjoyed the night!
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Knights of Columbus Father Ryan Council No.5025 Annual Free Throw Contest
All boys and girls ages 10 to 14 are invited to participate in this FREE competition for the
Knights of Columbus Free Throw Championship. The local competition will be held on
Saturday, January 9, 2016 ST. THECLA SCHOOL
FALCON HALL GYMNASIUM 6725 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL
Registration 10:30am
Competition starts at 11:00am - 2:00pm
Council Level: Each contestant receives three
warm-up tosses followed by 15 consecutive Free
Throw attempts from the appropriate age-
designated foul line. To break a tie, contestants
take a second round of five free throws. Successive
rounds of five free throws each continues until a
winner emerges.
All contestants on the local level are recognized for
their participation in the event. Participants are
required to furnish proof of age and written
parental consent.
CONTACT:
Free Throw Chairman, Mike Morris
1-773-726-2524 or
The Knights of Columbus is an international Catholic
family fraternal service organization with nearly 1.7
million members in over 12,500 local councils. Last
year, Knights donated 60 million volunteer hours and
millions of dollars cash donations to charitable and
benevolent causes sponsoring projects to benefit
their churches, councils and communities, families
and youth.
Knights of Columbus Father Ryan Council No. 5025
Annual
“TURKEY SHOOT”
Holiday Kick-Off Dinner Raffle Saturday, November 21, 2015
6:00 pm to 11:00 pm
St. Thecla School – Falcon Hall 6725 W. Devon Ave., Chicago, IL
Play the BIG RAFFLE to WIN!!! All Night Turkey and Ham Raffles
Liquor Raffle Booth Gift Certificates Raffle
You bet, we have Ham too!!!
Cover Charge: $15.00/person Includes dinner buffet & one drink ticket
Good Food, Refreshments, Cake & Coffee Beer & Wine available for purchase
(you must be 21 year of age or older to attend)
Please RSVP on or before November 16th to chairpersons:
PGK Robert Kwiatkowski 1-773-462-4079 or [email protected]
PGK Roger Stachnik 1-773-318-7969 or [email protected]
