The council will be holding a 1st degree exemplification on Thursday, August 22nd. Any and all members are
invited to attend to observe the ceremony and welcome our new members. The door to the council hall will
open at 6:00 pm, and we are requesting that all candidates arrive no later than 6:30. The exemplification will
start at 7:00 pm (or shortly thereafter). Refreshments will be served following the exemplification.
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Council 953 Welcomes New Chaplain
Welcome to our new Chaplin for Council 953, Fr. Brendan McAnerney, O.P. Fr. Brendan is a Dominican priest ordained in the Latin Rite, with faculties granted by His Holiness John Paul II to serve as a Melkite-Greek Catholic priest.
He has been serving at St. George parish since 1999 and became a resident priest in 2001 while directing DominICON, a “Ministry to Enhance Appreciation of Holy Icons and the Traditions of the Eastern Churches.” He was appointed Pastor in 2011 by the Most Reverend Nicholas J. Samra, Bishop of Newton.
Grand Knight’s Message, July 2013
To my brother knights & their families,
Thank you for placing your confidence in me to represent our Council as your Grand Knight for the Columbian year of 2013-2014. I especially wish to thank our Past Grand Knight Ricardo Saldana for his dedication and hard work to our Council these past two years.
I joined this Council in 1985 then dropped out due to lack of interest. I rejoined the Council seven years ago but I was not active in the Council. Four years ago George Mills called me and asked me if I would consider running for Inside Guard. Shortly after that Jess Williams asked me to join the Second Degree Team. We talk a lot about recruitment, but sometimes we just need to ask inactive knights to become active in the Council or for those who have left the Knights of Columbus if they would consider rejoining our Council.
Tom Nulk made a suggestion to me and I completely agree with him. Ask a member of our Council who is inactive to come to one meeting, come to one dinner and to help out at one fund raiser every year. If each one of us did this think of how much better our Council could be.
Many thanks for all who worked hard to make the Past Grand Knight’s/Old Timers Dinner a great success. I especially want to thank Dave Carboni, Terry Corcoran, Steve Mills, Tom Nulk, George Mills, John Sheldon, John Watling, Matthew Lucien, Joe Miceli, Ricardo Saldana and anyone whose name I may have forgotten.
Also a big thank you to our Family Director Bryan McKrell for organizing, setting up and cooking hot dogs for the Council’s Family Picnic. It was a very hot day but all who attended had a good time.
We are looking for a Pro-Life Director and a Membership Director for our Council. If you are interested please contact me.
Thank you.
Go! Make a difference…
Fred Struck
Grand Knight council 953
Hall Board Meeting
A Hall Board meeting will be held on Tuesday July 16th at 10:00 AM at the Hall. All members of Council 953 are members of the Hall Association and are welcome to attend. The first 30 minutes of the Hall Board meeting will be a presentation by Ygrene Energy Program on ways to save energy at the hall with a low/no cost city of Sacramento program.
Any questions or concerns call Hall Board President David Carboni @ 455-2711
Zippy Bun Booth
St. Mary’s Parish will be holding its 82nd annual festival on Sunday, August, 18, 2014 and as usual, the festival’s Zippy Bun Booth will be set up and run by members of the council. (For newer members not familiar with a zippy bun sandwich, it’s nothing more than a pile of roast beef between two bun halves dripping with aus jus and is one of the most popular food items at the festival.) We’re still in need of volunteers to man some of the two hour shifts as well assisting in setting up on Saturday morning and the take down after the festival closes at 8PM.
If you can help at the booth please contact George Mills at 916-456-4345 or fs (at) koc953 (dot) org. THANKS!
Council Members Honored at PGK/Old Timers Dinner
George Mills and Dale Edwards were both chosen as Knight of the year by the Council. Bill Renard and his wife Anne Liese Renard were chosen as Family of the Year. A Certificate of Appreciation for his service as Chaplain for the past two years was presented to Fr. Francis Chirackal. A plaque for his two years of service as Grand Knight was presented to PGK Ricardo Saldana.