Grand Knight's Report
Tom Sixsmith
Probably the highlight of the month was the Build-A-Bed project that was held on February 8th in our parking lot. We had over 50 Brother Knights and family members show up to help saw, drill, sand, stain and partially assemble 20 beds. The project was underwritten by Supreme who provide the $5000 needed to purchase materials. This program is run by “Sleep in Heavenly Peace” which is a national group with over 300 chapters. This was a great project and lots of smiling faces. Please see the newsletter article for more information and pictures.
Our Intellectual Disabilities, or better known as the ID Drive program, is winding up with our last event of the parish appeal that happened earlier in February. According to Chairperson Brother Mike Bynes, we are well on our way to exceeding previous years totals. After much discussion and investigation, we will strongly consider applying our funds directly to the chosen charities through our OC Knights Chapter instead of through the Frank Negro Columbian Foundation. ,The biggest benefit is that there is no loss of 7% of funds being diverted to overhead.
Our Council also had a very successful blood drive this month and hit our goal for donations. ,A special thank you to Jose Lopez who manned to sign-up sheet booth after all the Masses for two weekends.
A new event was also held in February with the assembly of food bags for the homeless. We were able to assemble 300 food bags of non-perishable items to be distributed to needy and homeless. Please see the newsletter article for more information.
Looking forward -
- - The men’s retreat will occur March 1st and 2nd and many in our Council are the main drivers for this event.
- - Ministry Fair in the Hall, March 9th
- - St. Patrick’s Day dinner is scheduled for March 15th
- - Campus cleanup March 22nd
- - Corporate Communion March 30th
As a reminder, due to the March meeting falling on Ash Wednesday, we will have a slightly shorter meeting to allow for distribution on ashes to all attending Knights. There will be no Knight of the Month, Family of the Month, or Good of the Order. We will look to doing those at the April meeting.
Hope to see you at one of our events.
WGK Tom