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Council Officers Chaplain—FR Paul Miskiewicz

Grand Knight—Bob Kula

Deputy Grand Knight—David Hinckley

Financial Secretary—Randy Schroeder

Chancellor—John Gavel

Recorder—Gordon Satkowiak

Treasurer—Rick Schulze

Advocate—Don Gibbs

Inside Guard—Al Derochers

Outside Guard—Tony Haponski

Three Year Trustee—Greg Edwards

Two Year Trustee—Mark Hale

One Year Trustee—Kel McDolald

Membership Director—Ray DeFreese

Warden—Chuck Paulus

Lecturer—Dr. David Mgbeokwere

Council Webmaster—John Halloran

District Deputy— Michael Gaines

(404) 771-0648

Field Agent—Aaron Cole (678) 544-0775

Council Directors

Pro-Life Director—Kel MacDonald

Church director—Bill Evon

Publicity Director—David Hinckley

Youth Director—Nick Ditto

Council Director—David Hinckley

Community Director—Vacant

Membership Director—Ray Defreese

Ladies Auxiliary Officers

President—Carolyn Kula

Vice President-Mary Millay

Secretary—Clare Evon

Treasurer—Mary Hale

Grand Knight’s Corner

GK Newsletter April 2017

Crazy weather again this year. One day it is in the 80’s and sunny, the next in

the 50’s and cold and wet. But spring is definitely coming. Time to start

working outside and do some of the spring cleanup. That includes both your

home and the Hall. There is cleanup to do at the Hall, grass to be cut and

general outside cleanup (inside needs lots of work also). Come and help us.

Our normal 2nd Saturday of the month work mornings continue—be a part of

it.

Our fish fries are going super with more people than last year. Everyone

thinks the food is wonderful and plentiful. If you are not coming every week

to help us work, then the least you can do is attend and enjoy a great meal.

The larger crowds have also turned it into a social event with people staying

around to socialize.

Our St Patrick Day dinner/dance was an event I hope you attended and if you

did not, then you missed a great evening. The corned beef, cabbage and pota-

toes were enjoyed by all. The Irish dancers from PTC came for their 10th year

and were a tremendous hit. They danced their Irish dances for a half hour.

After they were finished, our disc jockey, Jim Raymer, put on the electric slide

and all the dancers loved it. These girls took to the floor and had a great time

for 25 minutes more as Jim just kept playing song after song and these girls

knew every dance and really put on a show. If you were not there, you missed

a great time.

The Knights again will be working at the church for Holy Week. Holy Thurs-

day and Good Friday we will be at Founders Hall at 10 AM to set the room up

for Holy Thursday evening service and Good Friday to set the Hall for the

Friday evening service. We will also be doing parking patrol and shuttle ser-

vice on Easter morning to keep the cars moving in the parking lot. There will

be some parking pattern changes this year hoping for a better traffic flow. We

will have more golf carts and with the different traffic flow, we will need more

workers. More info will be coming out soon, so if you can give us a little time

that Sunday morning, it will be a big help.

The parish picnic is on May 6th and we will be doing setup, takedown and

cooking for this event. Again, the more help we get, the quicker it goes.

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Volume 2, Issue #4 (Aprila 2017)

KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS KNIGHTLINE A Newsletter of Tara Council #6352,

481 Flint River Road, Jonesboro, GA 30238-3411

Saturday 1 April is our Founders Day Celebratory

Mass and Dinner. If you have not attended any

other event please attend this one event.

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Gentlemen, this month’s news letter input is about future events. For several months we have asked you to find time in your schedule to volunteer for specific planned events. All events still require your assistance. However I would like support from our Spanish speaking Knights and anyone who has a passion for soccer. As a council we would like to increase our foot print within the parish. We have a need to develop a Spanish speaking 1st degree exemplification team for our council. I would also like a volunteer (s) to translate our news letter into Spanish. I have used Google translate several times, however I was recently made aware that the trans-lation was not as accurate as I had hoped. We need your assistance. I would like to resurrect the Knights of Columbus Soccer Challenge if I can find a volunteer or two to pick up the baton, are you that Knight? We have several events happening in April that require your support. Our first event in April happens this weekend with our Founder’s Day Memorial Mass and Dinner. It is followed with all the events associated with Easter. Public Affairs Notes: If you have an article that you would like to have included in our newsletter, please submit it to me by the 15th of the month. Please forward or print a copy of our newsletter to one of our Brother Knights without an email so they can keep up with what we are doing. Fraternally, David Hinckley Deputy Grand Knight Public Affairs Officer If you have not been to a council meeting in over 6 months make it a point to come to this month’s meeting. Our meeting is a pot luck, Rosary at 6:30 PM, 7 PM pot luck dinner begins. 7:30 PM our busi-ness meeting begin by 8:30PM we are done.

Deputy Grand Knight

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The Ladies Auxiliary has certainly been busy these past few months - our BBQ Dinner, cooking and baking for the KOC volunteers at the Atlanta Motor Speedway, the weekly fish fries and the St. Patrick’s Day Dinner and Dance. We received many compliments and thanks for the variety and amount of food we provided the Knights for the race week-end. We need to continue supporting our Knights with desserts for the fish fries. Thank you.

Gayle Wolfson and Anna Schroeder volunteered for the Nominating Committee. If asked, please consider saying yes to one of the open positions.

A change has taken place at the Concession Stand for Bingo. For quite some time we have dealt with complaints about our flat tasting Orange and Twist sodas, so we have converted to selling these flavors, along with Ginger Ale, by the can. It has been a success. Ginger Ale has been a nice caffeine free addition.

The parish mission has been a needed renewal for me and the talks by Father Dennis were excellent. Went to the morning talks which was new for me. The Mary Mauldin room was filled daily.

Please keep in your prayers Irma Fitzgibbon, Randy Schroeder, Paula Morgan, Ed Kleppinger, and Pete Bom-bardieri. I hope I have not forgotten anyone who needs extra prayers.

April 1 Founders Day Mass at 4PM followed by dinner at the Broadway Diner

April 4 April monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary

April 7 Final Fish Fry

April 13-15 Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday

April 16 Easter Sunday

May 2 May monthly meeting of the Ladies Auxiliary

May 6 Parish Picnic

April Birthdays: 4/11 Jinsook Hinckley

April Anniversaries: None noted

Happy Easter

Submitted

Carolyn Kula, President

Ladies Auxiliary Presidents Corner

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We are also starting a Senior breakfast on the 2nd Wednesday of each month after 830 AM mass. Our first breakfast will be on

April 12th. Again, we need workers to accomplish this – come and be a part of the team. It is not hard work and these events are

very enjoyable to work.

As you can see, we continue to keep busy and support any function at the church that needs our assistance. We are the right arm of

the church. Be a part of these events and join us.

Have a wonderful Easter and if you have any questions about what we do or need more info, just let us know.

Vivat Jesus.

Bob Kula, Grand Knight

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Late-19th century Connecticut was marked by the growing prevalence of fraternal benefit societies, hostility toward Catholic immigrants and dangerous working conditions in factories that left many families fatherless. Recognizing a vi-tal, practical need in his community, Father Michael J. McGivney, the 29-year-old assistant pastor of St. Mary’s Church in New Haven, Conn., gathered a group of men at his parish on Oct. 2, 1881. He proposed establishing a lay organi-zation, the goal of which would be to prevent Catholic men from entering secret societies whose membership was anti-thetical to Church teaching, to unite men of Catholic faith and to provide for the families of deceased members.

As a symbol that allegiance to their country did not conflict with allegiance to their faith, the organization’s members took as their patron Christopher Columbus — recognized as a Catholic and celebrated as the discoverer of America. Thanks to Father McGivney’s persistence, the Knights of Columbus elected officers in February 1882 and officially assumed cor-porate status on March 29.

In addition to the Order’s stated benefits, Catholic men were drawn to the Knights because of its emphasis on serving

one’s Church, community and family with virtue. Writing in The Columbiad in 1898, a year be-fore he was elected supreme knight, Edward L. Hearn wrote that a Knight should live according to the virtues of loyalty, charity, courtesy and modesty, as well as “self-denial and careful respect for the feelings of others.” Fraternity and patriotism were added to the Knights’ founding princi-ples of charity and unity in 1885 and 1900, respectively.

• 1882: The Knights of Columbus is born on Feb. 6, 1882, when the first members choose Columbus as their patron. Immediately after the Order’s March 29 incorporation, Father McGivney sends the first diocesan-wide appeal for new members to his fellow priests.

• 1886: By the end of his four-year tenure as supreme knight, James T. Mullen personally presides at the institution of 22 of the first 38 councils. John J. Phelan is elected to succeed him and is the first supreme knight to sense the Order’s destiny as a national society.

• 1890: Father McGivney dies Aug. 14, 1890. His funeral Mass is celebrated in Thomaston, Conn., four days later.

• 1895: The Vatican’s first acknowledgment of the Knights comes when Archbishop Fran-cesco Satolli, apostolic delegate to the United States, writes a letter extolling the “merits of this splendid Catholic organization” and giving the Order his apostolic blessing.

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April

Saturday, April 1, 2017 Founders Day Mass & Dinner (Broadway Dinner (5:45-6PM)

Tuesday, April 4, 2017 Council Business Meeting

Saturday, April 8, 2017 Work Day

Tuesday, April 11, 2017 Officer & Six Point Meeting 6:30 PM & 7:30 PM

Wednesday, April 12, 2017 Monthly Event Senior Breakfast 07:30 set up for Breakfast 9:30 - 10:30

(after Mass) 2nd WED of the Month

Thursday, April 13, 2017 Holy Thursday Set Up

Friday, April 14, 2017 Good Friday Setup

Sunday, April 16, 2017 Easter Sunday Mass Parking

Saturday, April 22, 2017 3rd Degree Exemplification

Sunday, April 23, 2017 Divine Mercy Sunday

May

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Council Business Meeting

Tuesday, May 2, 2017 Delta Picnic

Saturday, May 6, 2017 Parish Picnic

Tuesday, May 9, 2017 Officer & Six Point Meeting 6:30 PM & 7:30 PM

Saturday, May 13, 2017 Work Day (8AM-12 Noon) Ladies Invited

Saturday, May 19, 2007 Parish Golf Tournament Lake Pivey 7:30 sign in

Friday, May 19, 2017 KofCs Georgia State Council - 115th Annual Meeting and Convention

Saturday, May 20, 2017 KofC Georgia State Council - 115th Annual Meeting and Convention

Sunday, May 21, 2017 KofC Georgia State Council - 115th Annual Meeting and Convention

Tuesday, May 30, 2017 TCMC

June

Tuesday, June 6, 2017 Council Business Meeting (Vote for new Officers)

Tuesday, June 13, 2017 Officer & Six Point Meeting 6:30 PM & 7:30 PM

Saturday, June 10, 2017 Work Day (8AM-12 Noon) Ladies Invited

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Saint Patrick’s Day Dinner Dance